New York Knicks: Designing an ideal Jabari Parker trade

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Milwaukee, WI – JANUARY 28: Jabari Parker #12 of the Milwaukee Bucks goes to the basket against the Boston Celtics on January 28, 2017 at the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images) /

The Finances

The financial aspect of a trade for Jabari Parker is equal parts appealing and troubling. His contract isn’t much of a burden whatsoever, but that could both enable a trade to be made and complicate the details of creating a fair package.

Parker is owed $6,782,392 in 2017-18, which is far less than a player of perceived equal value will make on either the Houston Rockets or New York Knicks.

New York is aiming to move Carmelo Anthony, and that may still come to fruition in a three-team trade. Anthony is owed $26,243,760 in 2017-18, which is far more than what Parker is owed, thus making this deal one that can’t be a straight swap.

That could change, however, if the $17,884,176 that Greg Monroe is owed for the 2017-18 season were to be included in a trade—if Anthony were willing to join the Bucks, of course.

As for the Houston Rockets, the player who’s on the trading block is power forward Ryan Anderson. Anderson is a valuable player in that he’s an elite shooter with prototypical size for a 4, but he’s also a owed $19,578,454 in 2017-18.

The question is: How can all of these contracts be put to use in a potentially beneficial trade for the Houston Rockets, Milwaukee Bucks, and New York Knicks?

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