{"id":54166,"date":"2025-07-10T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54166\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:07:08","slug":"knicks-options-for-final-free-agent-spot-chris-paul-marcus-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54166\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks options for final free-agent spot: Chris Paul, Marcus Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Aprons schmaprons.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the Knicks were able to navigate the NBA\u2019s restrictive salary-cap system by creatively squeezing money in the crevices. Much of the credit belongs to team capologist Brock Aller, who treats roster building like a mathematical equation. Jalen Brunson also deserves another round of kudos from Knicks faithful for signing that team-friendly extension, a maneuver that saved the Knicks more than $11 million in cap space just for next season.<\/p>\n<p>And this summer, the Knicks discovered the best formula \u2014 cap-wise \u2014 to build out their bench in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>How? A multi-step process:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Aprons schmaprons. Once again, the Knicks were able to navigate the NBA\u2019s restrictive salary-cap system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[29114,10446,40142,40143,23299,25873,1260,20198,3122,2229,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-54166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ben-simmons","9":"tag-chris-paul","10":"tag-inside-the-knicks","11":"tag-landry-shamet","12":"tag-malcolm-brogdon","13":"tag-marcus-smart","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-free-agency","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114829095616951677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}