{"id":479885,"date":"2026-01-20T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479885"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:47:06","slug":"new-york-knicks-checking-on-karl-anthony-towns-more-than-idle-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/new-york-knicks-checking-on-karl-anthony-towns-more-than-idle-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks checking on Karl-Anthony Towns: more than idle noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1552\">The <strong data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1374\">Knicks<\/strong> may not be actively shopping <strong data-start=\"1404\" data-end=\"1426\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/strong>, but his name is clearly out there.<br data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1465\" \/>Reports say New York has at least talked about him with Memphis, Orlando and Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1554\" data-end=\"1755\">Towns first popped up in conversations last summer tied to a potential Giannis Antetokounmpo framework.<br data-start=\"1657\" data-end=\"1660\" \/>The takeaway is simple: truly untouchable players usually don\u2019t appear in those kinds of talks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1757\" data-end=\"2019\">After arriving from Minnesota, <strong data-start=\"1788\" data-end=\"1797\">Towns<\/strong> helped New York reach the 2025 Eastern Conference finals before Thibodeau was fired.<br data-start=\"1882\" data-end=\"1885\" \/>With a big salary, no no-trade clause, and a new coaching context, the <strong data-start=\"1956\" data-end=\"1966\">Knicks<\/strong> are exploring what life could look like without him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2021\" data-end=\"2099\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2021\" data-end=\"2041\">Source: Hoops Wire<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York has reportedly discussed Towns with the Grizzlies, Magic and Hornets.<br \/>\nHis name keeps resurfacing as the front office gathers real market intelIl suo nome continua a circolare: la franchigia sta \u201csondando\u201d il mercato<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-479885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-York-Knicks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479885"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479885"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479885"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}