Ian Begley of SportsNet New York reported this week<\/a>. Begley says the Knicks want to win a championship this season and that they are thus likely to consider a move for Davis, particularly if Dallas offers the 10-time NBA All-Star for below market value.<\/p>\nDavis, now 32, has not played since October due to a calf strain. With the Mavericks now 13th in the West at 5-13, a Davis trade may potentially be on the table ahead of the February deadline, especially now that former Dallas GM Nico Harrison (a big Davis advocate) has been fired.<\/p>\n
As for the Knicks, they need a shot in the arm right now at an underwhelming 9-6 on the year (fifth in the East). In the midst of a season where the conference is truly wide open, New York may need to buy aggressively at the trade deadline in order to maximize their opportunity.<\/p>\n
A potential issue for New York is that their cupboard is a extremely bare at this point given all they assets that they already moved over the last couple of years in separate trades for OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges, and Karl-Anthony Towns. As such, they might have to rely on whatever young talents they have left (e.g. 23-year-old Ariel Hukporti and 20-year-old Pacome Dadiet) plus future pick swaps and protected picks acquired from other teams in order to make a competitive offer for Davis.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, we heard a rumor that another contender in the East may make a run at Davis on the trade market<\/a>. The Knicks now appear to be a safe bet to enter the mix as well, but whether they can cobble together the best offer for the former No. 1 overall pick Davis will be a different story entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a year after playing in Los Angeles, Anthony Davis might be headed to the other mega-market. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[46232,7,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-430907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-anthony-davis-nba","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115601485808848801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}