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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5265971, member: 71"] They couldn't offer Hartenstein more than some percentage increase over the deal they signed him two a couple years earlier, which started at a little more than $10 million in year one and had whatever the standard increase (15%? 20%?) Year over year. One of the weird things about the NBA cap rules as IH was signed to a two way G league deal that converted to a full NBA deal. As an unrestricted free agent, any team under the apron could sign him for what the Thunder gave him (I believe ~$27 million year one with annual increases). The Knicks would have needed to find a way to shed about $30 million in guaranteed 2024-2025 salary to drop to where they could math that offer. The only realistic way to have done that would have been to have planned ahead by trading a player under contract before the 2024 deadline for an expiring contract. [/QUOTE]