Can I tell you my, my, my, in this, again, sitting here right now, not knowing everything,

but my gut reaction is, I sure as hell hope none of the other, they don't expend a single

additional draft asset, unless it's a second rounder or something, on offloading salary.

I know.

I know.

I know.

But you're telling me, you're telling me at worst, Alec Berks into the Boston Celtics trade

player exception for a second round pick isn't doable.

Is that what you're going to tell me?

No, I don't.

I don't, look, I would hope so.

Right. I just, I just don't know.

Teams aren't going to say, hey, screw the Knicks when they can get something decent out of it.

My question is why the Knicks, again, I'm fine that they're operating under the cap. I would prefer

to over the cap, pin over that, it's fine. It's more if they felt that Brunson was going to be a

realistic option for them. And if they still feel this way, and obviously he has to put pen to paper,

but if they still felt that way, perhaps why they went about signing the players.

The only thought process, to what contracts are guaranteed for this year, the only thought

process is that they still wanted to do that because then they could still trade a player

like Birx because they have them under contract and get an asset out of it.

Maybe they could do something similarly with 4-Day with salary coming back.

There are ways they could do it.

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