Potential Knicks offseason targets including Paul George and Jimmy Butler | The Putback | SNY

Potential Knicks offseason targets including Paul George and Jimmy Butler | The Putback | SNY

going stargazing now because as we talk regularly uh on this show about the Knicks it is about getting another big player ultimately I think that’s where their focus still lies regardless of what happens in the draft regardless of what happens in the off season I do think ultimately that’s where they are so let’s take a look at a couple options here one is Paul George Paul George talked about him earlier uh the idea that he may not get a deal done with the Clippers and he he may be looking for another team to go out and give him that last big deal that he’s looking for looking for four years Clippers have not been willing to go there to date uh I think Philadelphia I think they would if I had to guess go four years I don’t know if if the Knicks would um I know that Knicks have been interested in Paul George in the past I’m not sure though that if you bring back OG and an Obi Paul George is that guy that you go all in for if you lose in an Obi it’s a different conversation ation that’s where I think it hinges on Paul George U CP what are you keeping an eye on in terms of the trade market and that big name that may be out there yeah it’s hard to see right now because as Cass said earlier on the show it just doesn’t seem like that name is out there um James Jones from Phoenix said you can forget about any of those Phoenix big three being available Kevin Durant and Devin Booker namely I would have no interest in in Bradley Beal Donovan Mitchell is he going to sign the extension with the Cavs does he go somewhere else like you had said Ian on on a show earlier it doesn’t seem like the Knicks have much interest in Donovan Mitchell as they once had in two years ago Carl Anthony towns I’m really not interested in that would Minnesota go ahead and try to peel that back after the success that they had and also in the backdrop of ownership uncertainty so is a Town’s Pursuit really there that’s why I go back to a guy like a dejonte Murray one of those midlevel players who can help move your depth a little bit forward you get young you get athletic and it and it just he keeps the Knicks in that competitive Arena around the East I’m just not sure if that that home run Splash is available for the Knicks right now yeah I I don’t think there is one but a name that I’ve really started to really become enamored with over the past uh few days has been Brandon Ingram of the New Orleans Pelicans right like he’s a guy who has an All-Star level talent and one thing that I’ve noticed about this Nick’s team towards the end of the regular season and the postseason was like man they score but like I would love to see them get bigger on the wing and get more athletic as scorers I mean getting being able to to you know finish at the rim and get threes are great but if you got somebody who’s in the 67 to 610 range who could stretch the floor out a little bit and that could score in the mid-range uh that’ll be a great get also it doesn’t seem like Brandon Ingram will cost the farm as you know one of these other superstars might cost for you know a Booker or a towns or any of these other like Mega stars that have sort of been floated around over the past several years uh Brandon Ingram seems like he would be a nice fit uh watching the end of that Pelican series obviously with Zion hurt um I don’t like to play armchair uh psychologist but he looked a little burnt out from the situation just as far as like you know uh his injuries concerned as well uh maybe a frh start in New York alongside Josh Hart uh a guy who he played with uh for a good amount of his career in Los Angeles and New Orleans could help ensure some of that chemistry that we’ve seen with the Nova Nicks so far so um over the past few days I’m starting to really come around on thinking you know if you can go and make a swing for Brandon Ingram and still possibly hold on to Randall and Brunson and the guys that you really uh helped uh build this team around that could be something really special yeah the Pelicans have a decision to make on Ingram whether they want to offer him a Max extension or or whether they don’t and where they feel comfortable with there obviously Zion Williamson has that big contract and they’re going to have to pay Trey Murphy thei uh so they’re going to have big big decisions financially coming up maybe that makes Ingram available um I know teams are kind of planning as if he could be available I don’t know about the Knicks I haven’t heard specifically on them and Brandon Ingram I would keep an eye on Cleveland uh especially if Donovan Mitchell does decide to stick around which I I think that’s the way it’ll go at this point I would keep an eye on the Cavs maybe poking around on Ingram seeing what it would take to trade for him because you put him in Cleveland depending on who’s left uh that could be a pretty formidable foe in the Eastern Conference and other names you know Jimmy Butler I think depending on how high Miami wants to go for him for his extension for his next deal maybe he becomes available is he a Nick Target look they have the draft Capital to get involved in any of these conversations uh if teams are looking for top young players back I would think other other teams could put together a stronger package but when it comes down to just draft capital I think the Knicks will be right there with any team that they want to get involved with conversation wise I think so Butler you keep an eye on but I don’t see him as being the guy that the Knicks push all their chips in at the final piece here I think that player has yet to emerge

On The Putback with Ian Begley, SNY’s NBA Insider alongside CP The Fanchise and Kaz Famuyide go Stargazing, discussing potential Knicks offseason targets including Paul George and Jimmy Butler.

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