The Knicks still have a path to extend Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart while staying below the second apron in 2027-28.
According to Bobby Marks, there are contract structures that would allow New York to retain both players without crossing the threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still a pathway with Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart to stay under the second apron for next season,\u201d Bobby Marks said on ESPN<\/strong>. \u201cBoth players would sign on a deal to extend their contracts and be part of the Knicks for the foreseeable future.\u201d Marks added that both players would be willing to consider team-friendly structures to help preserve the core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The situation would become more complicated in later years, especially with Jalen Brunson potentially eligible for a maximum extension that could raise his salary from $43 million to $64 million. Miles McBride is also eligible for an extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bobby Marks says the Knicks still have a path to extend Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart while staying below the second apron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":516420,"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":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-548889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Logo-Knicks.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548889","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=548889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548890,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548889\/revisions\/548890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548889"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=548889"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=548889"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=548889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}