Duke’s product will remain in the Big Apple for four years.
The news was in the air since the beginning of the Free Agency, but only in the early hours of the Italian morning Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted a confirmation awaited by all the fans of the New York Knicks: RJ Barrett has reached an agreement with the franchise for a four-year extension for a maximum value of 120 million dollars.
A certainly profitable agreement, which makes Barrett the youngest Knick in history to hold a contract worth over 100 million dollars, as well as the first first-round pick of New York to re-sign with the franchise since 1999 (one year before the birth of RJ himself).
In addition to this important confirmation, however, there should be no other particular fireworks in this end of the Knicks offseason. Rose, in fact, had imposed himself yesterday, Monday 29 August, the last deadline to close a possible agreement with the Utah Jazz for Donovan Mitchellfor which a (provisional) stay in Salt Lake City is now expected.
According to Woj, in fact, the Jazz would not have any intention of moving without the inclusion of Barrett in an exchange, the road for which it was already tortuous also due to the request, by Utah, to include Quentin Grimes and a number of premieres. future choices indefinite – with the amount that could increase without the presence of RJ.
The ESPN insider clarifies that the negotiations could resume, but that now everything seems more complicated, given that the extension of the young Knick would have been specially delayed for several weeks. Not to mention the difficulties added by the poison pill provisionwhich we talked about HERE.
Everything, therefore, suggests that we will not see Spida at the court of Tom Thibodeau.
