NOVEMBER 22: The Knicks have officially signed Burks, the team announced today in a press release.
NOVEMBER 20: The Knicks have made their first free agent deal of 2020/21, having agreed to sign guard Alec Burks to a one-year, $6MM contract, agent Alex Saratsis tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe (Twitter link).
New York has approximately $37MM to spend in free agency if chooses to do so and Burks is the first reported agreement.
Signing Burks on a one-year contract helps to preserve New York’s cap room for next offseason. He played a combined 66 games last season for the Warriors and 76ers, averaging 15.0 PPG, 4.3 RPG and 2.9 APG in those contests. Burks is a career 36.4% 3-point shooter and should emerge as a rotation piece for the Knicks next season.
Burks has a history with Knicks assistant GM Walt Perrin, Ian Begley of SNY TV notes (Twitter link). Perrin was in Utah’s front office when the Jazz drafted Burks in 2011.
Huge for a team needing someone to shoot 3s
Good shooter for the knicks
Knick need to sign kriss dunn.he is great defender.thib love great defender
Alec Burks is a great choice for $6mil from GM Rose… a sign of intelligence from the new boss, which may be the best aspect. I have advocated Burks but he’s not perfect. It wouldn’t hurt to start him. I think a good role model for Barrett.
He doesn’t play completely together, but he may get the right setup in NY. Kind of a combo game, medium speed, head up, team-involved but comfortable going off-script, okay with chaos but doesn’t have to create it. He could actually use some more focus of a selfish type to keep his 3pt% up, so the MSG pressure will likely be beneficial for his game. Best as a plan B; he may not help the Knicks develop an identity. May be a stoner or give that impression. Has gotten misused sometimes.
Any such hiring should make sense in terms of a star or two that the Knicks don’t have yet, but that’s been true a while. It is unlikely he would keep a star away.