Six draft night deals, descending contracts and a CBA-busting set of sign-and-trades were just a bit of what it took to get Karl-Anthony Towns in a Knicks jersey.
Karl-Anthony Towns speaks to the media and credits Jalen Brunson and the Knicks for creating a special environment at Madison Square Garden. , Sunday in what has become one of the most interesting games of the preseason. The machinations that decided which uniform Towns would be wearing are deeply nuanced and endlessly interesting.That's where the $300,000 comes in.
Without every single one of these moves, the Knicks would not have been able to make the Towns trade. All of it together made it happen. Some of them, such as the first-ever triple sign-and-trade, were for Towns. Others, like the contract structures for Brunson and Robinson, were put in place just in case something like this was needed.
The nuts and bolts were largely performed by Knicks vice president of strategic planning Brock Aller, who has a long history of' front office. Aller handles much of the strategic moves for the Knicks and does most of the complex trade negotiations.
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