9:44pm: McBride’s extension is official, the Knicks announced (via Twitter).
9:29pm: The Knicks have reached an agreement with Miles McBride on a three-year contract extension worth $13MM, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal was confirmed to Wojnarowski by McBride’s agents, Mark Bartelstein and Andy Shiffman of Priority Sports.
The 23-year-old guard was the 36th pick in the 2021 draft and was acquired by New York in a draft-night trade. He’s making $1.8MM this year and would have been on a path toward restricted free agency after the season if not for the extension. The deal will keep him under contract through the 2026/27 season.
All three years of McBride’s extension are fully guaranteed and his salary will decrease each season, a source tells Stefan Bondy of The New York Post (Twitter link).
The extension comes just hours after a trade that sent RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley to Toronto, which should open up an opportunity for McBride. He saw a season-high 18 minutes in tonight’s game at Indiana, scoring five points with one assist.
McBride hasn’t received consistent playing time in any of his three seasons with the Knicks, averaging 10.0 minutes over 122 combined games. Before tonight, he had appeared in 18 games this season, putting up 1.9 points, 0.3 rebounds and 0.4 assists in 4.6 minutes per night.
The extension clears up a small piece of New York’s upcoming offseason, but the team still has 11 potential free agents (including two-ways), as our tracker shows.
How does the O.G. Anunoby addition impact a potential Knicks/Celtics Playoff match-up. Jayson Tatum losing any sleep over this?? We all know Boston can’t beat Miami. Does this mean Jaylen Brown will have to dribble?
Right, because OG comes to save the day. He isn’t a helping piece
OG is one of the few people in the league that can slow Tatum down but Boston still has two much firepower for the Knicks, or anyone in the East except possibly the Bucks.
Lots of people slow Tatum down including himself
Deuce proving yet again that basketball is always the right choice over football
Always …. Last longer
Happy for Duce ….. this your time. Grab it
I didn’t love the trade, but I love this move as a follow up to it. I still believe in McBride, as much as I did when he was drafted. I think it was wise to extend him now, prior to him re-entering the rotation.
He gets relatively no minutes. Am I missing something?
Ummm, maybe…you do realize that they traded their backup PG?
His college career, the draft, his G-league stats. The reason he’s in the NBA. His potential. Just everything
Fact this is a basketball forum.
He’s going to start getting a lot more minutes, and the Knicks must believe in him given that they were willing to part with Quickley.
He’s getting paid 4 million a year. That’s not exactly a player you believe in enough to feel comfortable giving up a player like Quickley. In all likelihood, the Knicks will eventually make another trade targeting a true backup PG. But until then, he should have a legitimate rotation role; who knows what happens afterwards.