{"id":313688,"date":"2021-08-02T03:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T00:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knicks-let-guard-frank-ntilikina-enter-nba-free-agency\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T03:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T00:06:28","slug":"knicks-let-guard-frank-ntilikina-enter-nba-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-let-guard-frank-ntilikina-enter-nba-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knicks let guard Frank Ntilikina enter NBA free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Knicks let guard Frank Ntilikina enter NBA free agency<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Au revoir, Frank.<\/p>\n

The Knicks didn\u2019t extend a qualifying offer to guard Frank Ntilikina at Sunday\u2019s 5 p.m. deadline, The Post has learned, making him an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n

While the Knicks could still sign him, the longest-tenured member of the team is likely on his way to greener pastures after a rocky four seasons in New York.<\/p>\n

The Knicks could have kept Ntilikina restricted and matched any offer, but would\u2019ve needed a cap hold that would\u2019ve taken away their space at the starting gun of free agency, Monday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

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This move likely will give the Knicks $53 million in cap space. The team\u2019s drafting on Thursday of point guard Miles McBride and shooting guard Quentin Grimes probably sealed Ntilikina\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n

Ntilikina played 211 game<\/a>s for the Knicks since 2017 and averaged 5.5 points. He never developed as a playmaker or ballhandler, though he became a keen defender.<\/p>\n

Currently, Ntilikina is playing in the Tokyo Olympics for France, but he missed the first two games with a muscle injury before coming back versus Iran. Ntilikina\u2019s national team is in the quarterfinals. He\u2019s teammates with Evan Fournier, a Knicks free-agent target, and could give him a rundown on the franchise\u2019s trials and tribulations.<\/p>\n

Ntilikina\u2019s Knicks career was beset by a series<\/a> of groin and hamstring issues. He was out of the rotation almost all of this past season.<\/p>\n

His term of service was doomed from the get-go. The 6-foot-5 point guard was selected to run Phil Jackson\u2019s triangle offense and was picked eighth overall in 2017 \u2014 ahead of current Jazz star Donovan Mitchell. Jackson was fired as president days after that draft.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Knicks let guard Frank Ntilikina enter NBA free agency” Au revoir, Frank. The Knicks didn\u2019t extend a qualifying offer to guard Frank Ntilikina at Sunday\u2019s 5 p.m. deadline, The Post has learned, making him an unrestricted free agent. While the Knicks could still sign him, the longest-tenured member of the team is likely on his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Cavaliers-Knicks-Basketball-e1627861087979.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[113258,72942,72932],"class_list":["post-313688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-1-21","tag-frank-ntilikina","tag-new-york-knicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}