{"id":561275,"date":"2026-01-26T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561275\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:10:15","slug":"knicks-interested-in-mavericks-trade-but-theres-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/561275\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks interested in Mavericks trade, but there&#8217;s a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> may have won two games in a row, but there is an <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-fail-jobs-fourth-straight-loss-team-reaches-low\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overall sense of discontent<\/a> among both the fanbase and the members of the team. After all, this was supposed to be the year the Knicks dominate the Eastern Conference amid the projected drop-off of some of their contending peers. But instead, they find themselves in fourth place in the conference, behind division rivals Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>This would explain why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/sources-knicks-discussing-guerschon-yabusele-trade-spurs-pelicans-others\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Knicks have been very active on the trade market<\/a> as far as exploring options on how to improve the roster. And their wide search has led them to Dallas Mavericks wing <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/naji-marshall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naji Marshall<\/a>, who&#8217;s been impressive thus far this season for the rebuilding Mavs.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Knicks may have to take their trade search elsewhere, as according to NBA insider Marc Stein, acquiring the Mavericks forward is <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/sunday-best-lots-of-updates-from?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=392205&amp;post_id=185778761&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=39f60&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">going to cost<\/a> a hefty price.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to Marshall \u2014 who is in Year 2 of a rather attractive three-year, $27 million pact \u2014 Dallas is said to be unwilling to listen to any trade approaches that don&#8217;t feature a future first-round pick,\u201d Stein wrote.<\/p>\n<p>This tracks with a previous report from ClutchPoints&#8217; Brett Siegel, which indicated that the Mavericks \u201cmay be able to fetch a first-round pick\u201d for Marshall. And that simply is not a price the Knicks will be able to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks are stuck finding marginal upgrades on the trade market<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3536594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/why-mikal-bridges-excited-finally-got-rookies-knicks.jpg\" alt=\"Sep 23, 2025; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks forward Mikal Bridges speaks to the media during a media day press conference at the Madison Square Garden training center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Mikal Bridges trade cost the Knicks four of their own first-round picks, an unprotected pick swap, and a 2025 first-round pick (via the Milwaukee Bucks) that became Ben Saraf. They gave up their first-rounders in 2025, 2027, 2029, and 2031, which means that they&#8217;re stuck dangling pick swaps for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>They have a top-eight protected pick coming from the Washington Wizards, although that is not likely to convey. That pick, considering the protection on it, may not be enough to net them a major contributor on the trade market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks may have won two games in a row, but there is an overall sense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,5989,6,6050,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-561275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-naji-marshall","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-rumors","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115959683055307163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561275","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=561275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}