The New York Knicks traded J.R Smith and Iman Shumpert in a salary dump move to free up salary cap space for this summer. What are some realistic potential 2015 free agents that the Knicks can sign with this salary cap space?
Here's the reported trade involving the @cavs, @okcthunder and @nyknicks pic.twitter.com/GxNuBl0DpW
— NBA TV (@NBATV) January 6, 2015
The Knicks salary cap situation as per Basketball-Reference stands at $35,837,283. As per Zach Lowe in an early October Grantland article “The league right now projects a jump to $66.5 million for 2015-16, a modest rise pegged to the final year of that modest $930 million TV deal.”
“The league right now projects a jump to $66.5 million for 2015-16, a modest rise pegged to the final year of that modest $930 million TV deal.”-Zach Lowe
So if we use Zach Lowe’s figure of $66.5 million-$35.8 million≈ $30.7 million for a free agent in the summer of 2015.
So with a rough ballpark number around $30 million, let’s examine the top 20 potential free agents as ranked according to HoopsHype.