{"id":601738,"date":"2026-02-13T23:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:20:17","slug":"mohamed-diawara-should-be-part-of-knicks-future-even-in-money-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601738\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Diawara should be part of Knicks future even in money crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the Knicks\u2019 summer bookkeeping, the conversation typically opens with Mitchell Robinson\u2019s unrestricted free agency and Miles McBride\u2019s extension eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Those are indeed the two most important pieces of business.<\/p>\n<p>But somewhere just below that is Mohamed Diawara.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old rookie, who has proven himself a 3-and-D wing worthy of further development, is operating on an expiring $1.27 million contract. It was signed before the season because the Knicks needed to fill a roster spot with the cheapest contract possible \u2014 and Diawara was the only candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to the Knicks\u2019 summer bookkeeping, the conversation typically opens with Mitchell Robinson\u2019s unrestricted free agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-601738","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-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkknicks","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116065889426641089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601738","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=601738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}