Rumors surrounding the Knicks’ plans to land Minnesota Timberwolves superstar center Karl-Anthony Towns have emerged over the past two years, and with the team poised to catapult itself into the title race, those rumors continue to circulate. The Wolves just had their best season in two decades, being the third seed in the West and reaching the Western Conference finals. There’s no indication at this time that any of Minnesota’s big guns are on the market, but they may need to move some of them due to financial constraints.
Towns is currently playing on a very lucrative contract that gets more and more expensive with each passing season. He is projected to make around $49.2 million next season and that figure will reach $61 million by the 2027-28 season. As previously stated, Brunson’s extension was a cheaper one where he left over $113 million on the table by signing the contract a year early, and in doing so allowed the Knicks to avoid eclipsing the second apron.
They still have to find an extension with All-Star Julius Randle, which is now more feasible after Brunson’s extension, but nothing is final yet.