{"id":762518,"date":"2026-06-16T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762518\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:45:15","slug":"knicks-dilemmas-as-nba-title-joy-meets-free-agency-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762518\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks dilemmas as NBA title joy meets free agency reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To slightly misquote the late, great Notorious B.I.G., more money titles, more problems. And as the Knicks\u2019 championship celebrations rage on through the summer, Leon Rose will have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/14\/sports\/running-it-back-with-this-deep-knicks-squad-comes-with-costly-scenario\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some tricky roster decisions to make<\/a> over the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, the core of this team <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/15\/sports\/jay-wright-extols-leon-rose-vision-that-finally-brought-knicks-title\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is likely not changing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The starting five of Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Josh Hart, Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/15\/sports\/jay-wright-on-positive-of-jalen-brunson-doubters-knicks-stars-next-challenge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are all under contract next season<\/a>. So, too, is bench contributor Miles McBride, as well as Tyler Kolek and Pac\u00f4me Dadiet \u2014 the latter two of whom only saw garbage-time minutes in the playoffs. Jose Alvarado has a $4.5 million player option.<\/p>\n<p>Then things get more complicated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To slightly misquote the late, great Notorious B.I.G., more money titles, more problems. And as the Knicks\u2019 championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,4517,11053,4988,1247,6,1220,11,56381,191,3823,66,196],"class_list":["post-762518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-jose-alvarado","tag-landry-shamet","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116760092593939743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762518","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=762518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}