JULY 14, 8:15am: The Knicks and Kings will have to agree on compensation terms before New York can officially hire Perry, league sources tell Wojnarowski and Ian Begley of ESPN.com. Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets that cash and perhaps a second-round pick seems like fair compensation for Sacramento, but it’s not clear what sort of terms the two sides are discussing.
ESPN’s full report also confirms that Perry would report to Mills in the Knicks’ new-look front office, with Mills being promoted to president. While Mills would have the final say, Perry will have “tremendous freedom” to operate and will be the day-to-day voice running basketball operations, per ESPN.
JULY 13, 4:32pm: Perry has agreed to a deal to become the team’s new GM, sources tell Vincent Goodwill of Comcast Sportsnet (Twitter link).
3:32pm: The Knicks have met with Kings Vice President of Basketball Operations Scott Perry and the two sides are discussing the parameters of a deal to make him the team’s new GM, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.com tweets.
Perry joined Sacramento’s front office at the end of the 2016/17 campaign. He previously served as the assistant GM of the Magic and he also worked in the Sonics/Thunder organization, as well as for the Pistons.
The Knicks were interested in adding David Griffin to the GM role before the former Cavs executive withdrew his name from consideration. Griffin reportedly wanted to bring in the same front office staff he had in Cleveland, which was something the team opposed.
Team executive Steve Mills has been handling the GM duties on an interim basis since the organization fired Phil Jackson. The franchise remains on the hook to pay Jackson $24MM over the next two years. Mills, meanwhile, is poised to ascend to a president of basketball operations role for the Knicks.
This would be a huge loss for the kings and a huge mistake by Perry
Yo dude took a couple of good months and turned it into a big promotion. Good for him. That being said, if he had anything to do with what Orlando did in the last couple of years, this could be bad
Sacramento is a wreck, but it’s not like NY is any better right now…and the guy seems highly regarded, so…
Sac got better
Sacramento should be a force in the West relatively soon.
so he gets money and no real power…good move for him to get paid…another dummy move for the Knicks…status quo in NYC….FCK DOLAN!!!!
So the Knicks hire a guy who is released by a team that stinks, and who is then hired by a team in worse shape. Simply put, there is no light at the end of the tunnel for us Knicks fans…
Yes there is a light down the tunnel…a locomotive!!!!
Just when you try to imagine the worst possible move the Knicks could make, they surprise you with a worse move. The franchise is excellent at Fubaring everything.
Maybe this Scott Perry guy can get back that stinkin’ $71,000,000 the Knicks recently lost to nowhere ?
I say give them Hardaway.
Melo would be stupid to go to Houston even though its a great fit, stay home brotha.
you just said yesterday if he goes to Houston they beat the warriors but now he’s stupid to do that??? Dionis do you just get on here to troll?, I don’t want to believe you’re this stupid.
If he goes to Houston they will beat the Warriors but what if Melo wants to win a ring in NY? Porzingis will be an all-star next season and Melo would be back to balling freely and feeling embraced by us Knick fans, I own the man’s jersey. No one saw the 99 Knicks getting as far as they did, why can’t a team of Melo,Porzingis,Hardaway Jr, and depending on who the Knicks get to be their point guard for Ntilikina get a 7th-8th spot in the current East and make some noise?
I know Sacramento hasn’t played a game yet but they significantly improved (especially on draft night) once they ripped player personnel decisions from Vlade Divac and gave them to Perry. It’s hard to blame fully Perry for the bonehead moves in Orlando because that was mostly Hennigan’s work (possibly one of the worst GMs in recent history other than Kahn and Phil). He was player personnel guy in Detroit during their mid-2000’s success. I think he should be good at attracting FAs in the future.
Pretty sure it was Vlade who made the moves, it was probably Vivek who was responsible for the bad moves
you literally have no idea, you’re guessing
What makes you believe that Vlade was responsible for those moves? The guy didn’t even fully understand how the CBA worked when he got the job
What makes you think he didn’t, vlade was in charge. blame the owner if you want too but vlade doesn’t get a pass.
Because Perry was brought in to run the basketball operations. And because a year ago the Kings could only get one 1st rounder to come work out, but when Perry came in agents were allowing their players to meet with Sacramento
I only wish they signed Perry before the draft.
Well, better late than never, I guess.