Knicks SETTING UP Big Trade? – NY Making Cuts… | NY Knicks News

Knicks SETTING UP Big Trade? – NY Making Cuts… | NY Knicks News

Taj Gibson has just been waved by the New York Knicks and we have to talk about it because this has big implications on New York Knicks future trades so let’s jump right into the video and waste no time because as it was just reported by Fred Katz Taj

Gibson has been waved by the New York Knicks this gives the Knicks extra flexibility leading into the trade deadline they will have 14 players which gives them the ability to make a two for one three for two trade Gibson’s contract was set to guarantee today so it’s not the most

Shocking news in the world when you consider the fact that Taj Gibson’s contract was set to be guaranteed today and the Knicks are doing this in the purpose to make more trade flexibility happen so they could potentially acquire an extra player such as giving two players for and getting three players

Back and stuff or giving one player such as Evan for and getting two players back whoever those two guys may be the main thing that this shows is the New York Knicks are going to make a trade in the coming weeks there there’s no way they

Are waving Taj Gibson for no reason this means someone is going to get traded off of the Knicks roster and the Knicks are going to acquire what probably two players now the short version is that Evan forier is going to be the guy to get traded it makes no sense to keep him

Around his contract is going to end after this year because he’s got that team option so it really feels like Evan forier is going to get traded is what this certainly means is that there’s no way that forier will be sticking around and now the question is who are the

Knicks going to acquire what are the Knicks going to give away along with Evan for and what does this mean for Taj Gibson we’ll answer that last question right now which is what this means for Taj Gibson is that is the end of an era for

Taj Gibson and that is the end of the NBA career of Taj Gibson I don’t really see Gibson getting picked up by any other team I assume he’ll announce his retirement probably around the summer and then he’ll probably move into a head or an assistant coaching job with the

New York Knicks on the Tom Tibido bench as we just made a video on that this morning and here we are maybe that’s why that question was asked maybe that’s why tib said that there was a 100% chance that he’d be interested in having Taj Gibson as an assistant coach for him in

The future that Taj probably knew this was coming tibs probably knew this was coming and that’s one of the reasons why that happened now also because Taj is no longer on the Knicks the Knicks have 14 players on roster as cats mentioned which means we are going to see someone

Or someone’s going to get traded off the Knicks and someone’s going to get traded to the Knicks shout out to Nick Twitter personality tra B Ryan for posting this in response to Fred cats telling us that Taj was waved I think another reason why Taj was waved also is because the Knicks

Got precious to Chua Taj came in for extra depth once Jericho Sims went down with the sprained ankle after Mitch got the surgery and was reported to be done for the season Taj came in for depth and now he’s gone because the Nicks St ler need the depth and they need the

Flexibility to make some sort of a trade I’m pretty curious to what this means obviously there’s been a ton of reports if the Knicks are interested in Deonte Murray and that could certainly be what happens next but there’s also just a fleet of other possibilities such as the

Knicks are just going to give forier in like a few seconds for like potentially a Terry roier maybe a Malcolm Brogden guys who might not be due for getting traded for a first rounder because their team is trying to tank because they just desperately want to get a good player

Who’s around their 30s off the roster and also to get some value back for him and get some cap flexibility going into the summer cuz most tanking teams do like to keep their cap flexibility pretty open so they could sign guys and then later trade them at the deadline

For assets like the Knicks did when they got um Marcus Morris they gave him that $15 million contract for one season he played really well average around 20 points per game the Nick trade Marcus Morris to the Los Angeles Clippers in return the Knicks get the draft pick

That they used on Emanual quickly and then they would later use Emanual quickly to get OG on anobi and basically what I’m saying is that if it weren’t for Marcus Morris and the Knicks to sign him the Knicks might not have OG on anobi today and they

Certainly would not have had AEM manual quickly which shows why you know teams will sometimes just be willing to do something like that and yeah obviously that was a first round pick but also Marcus Morris That season was putting up really good numbers he was sort of on

That borderline of is he is he an All-Star is Marcus Morris an Allstar this season or is it just seizing an opportunity clearly it was seizing an opportunity though no shade towards Marcus Morris awesome player great scorer great shooter cool dude but really what we’re looking at here is the

Fact that the Knicks are going to use whatever draft assets they have to maybe try to beef up this bench unit a little bit and certainly move on from Evan forier forier is someone who does belong on an NBA roster and in a rotation the Knicks are just not the team for him

Because all of the Knicks guards seemingly are better Defenders and the Knicks are a defensive team first Kyle kma just said it he’s like look we try to do what the Knicks do except they got the Personnel to do it which first of all o Washington but

Also you know teams always say this about the Knicks Shay guildes Alexander said he like look they’re tough they’re tough to beat they’re a good defense Mark dagnal the coach of the Thunder was like yeah I mean they’re an elite defense it’s why they’ve been so successful over the years and look the

Knicks are not really the greatest defense this season but they still have that defensive reputation and they’ve always been a tough team to beat that’s something that Tom timido Prides himself on his coaching teams that no matter what their record is usually it’s going to be a better record than

Not tibs does have a career winning record with almost 100 more wins than he does losses so shout out to tips for that but it’s also he Prides himself on coaching a team that even if they lose they’re going down swinging they’re not going to go down easy and that’s what

The Knicks have become known for and forign just doesn’t fit the bill because he’s not a good Defender he’s a good offensive player good shooter and he’s probably going to go somewhere where and hopefully shoot pretty well get near that 40% mark from three which he almost

Has for a career statline and he’s got that $18 million expiring deal or well a team option but it’d be shocking to see any team pick up the EV forier team option I assume what we’re going to see is forier get like his next contract be

Like two years five million a year like two years 10 million which isn’t bad good value for a shooter uh but yeah he’s not the type of guy for the Knicks right now with this team the Knicks are guard heavy even still to a degree after

The RJ quick on an Obi trade the Knicks still do have guys like Duce McBride like Malachi Flynn obviously Brunson and Grimes and d venzo and Josh Hart kind of play shooting guard small forward and power forward so the Knicks are a little deep at guard still for the point where for

Need to get his minutes and I think because you can’t trade Malachi Flynn because of that traded player exception unless unless you trade Flynn by himself with no other players then you can but that’s the only way you can trade someone on a traded player exception is if they’re by

Themselves they cannot be paired with any other players that includes precious aoua who came over with him in the trade both precious and Malachi are trade eligible if they’re traded by themsel and by themsel only so essentially they’re not getting moved Josh Hart is probably not going to get moved not yet

At least dvan chenzo is definitely not getting moved we know that randle’s not going to get traded in season if he were to get traded I highly doubt that Mitchell Robinson is going to get moved during an injury and then I certainly think that um I certainly think that Haren Stein’s

Obviously not going and we know we know the whole deal Brunson on anobi Untouchable Randall probably not getting traded D venzo not getting traded hartenstein not getting traded the Knicks if they’re doing something it’s going to be to get de Jon Murray or to beef up the bench that is really the

Only thing that makes sense for them right now and that is why they just wave to Josh hard it is to get more space and just a quick look at the career or at at got the career stats of Taj Gibson he’s going to finish his career with a little

Under nine points per game a little under six rebounds one assist shooting 51.8% from the field and 26% from three which is impressive when he came in as really a non-shooter like most power forwards at the time of his drafting shooting 71.3% from the line this season

In his 10 games he had one and a half points almost two rebounds half an assist and shot 50% from the field shout out to the New York native Taj Gibson you did it you lived out the dream that every New York kid at some point who played basketball has had huge props

Toage congratulations on quite the NBA career can’t wait to see what you do next and I truly hope that he does become an assistant coach of the New York Knicks wanted to really end it on that note give Taj his love give him his props we did not we what Taj has done

For the New York Knicks is not going to go unrecognized just because once a Nick always a Nick and Taj is a New Yorker and you know how we love our New Yorkers hopefully the Knicks can get some more New Yorkers on the team because outside of precious who moved to

The Bronx when he was in eighth grade there there’s not too many right now so hopefully that’ll change but we’re going to see the Knicks make a trade within around a month from now because the deadline this is being filmed on Sunday January 7th it’s also going to come out

That day and February 8th is the NBA trade deadline so within the next month within the next 31 days the Knicks are going to make some sort of trade be ready we will we’ll make a video on it make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss whatever that video is and any other

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The New York Knicks have just WAIVED Taj Gibson in an effort to make a trade in the NEAR FUTURE. Who are they trading for? Who are they Trading? Chris Gallagher breaks it all down.

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