OCTOBER 3: The signing is official, in response to a group press launch.
OCTOBER 2: Veteran ahead T.J. Warren will signal an Exhibit 10 contract with the Knicks, sources inform Ian Begley of SNY (Twitter hyperlink).
The 31-year-old completed final season with Minnesota after inking a pair of 10-day offers in March and incomes a contract for the rest of the season. He solely obtained into 11 video games, averaging 3.7 factors and a couple of.0 rebounds in 11.4 minutes per evening. He additionally noticed restricted motion in three playoff contests.
Warren’s greatest season was 2019/20 with Indiana when he averaged 19.8 factors, 4.2 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 67 video games and have become one of many stars of the post-COVID “bubble” in Orlando. Nonetheless, he injured his left foot 4 video games into the next season and hasn’t been the identical since.
After sitting out all of 2021/22, Warren performed 42 mixed video games with the Nets and Suns in 2022/23. He was out of the league for many of final season earlier than touchdown the chance with the Timberwolves.
Warren has been looking for his subsequent group all through the summer time and had a exercise with the Kings final month.
The Knicks needed to commerce away a number of gamers to finish the Karl-Anthony Cities deal, so that they at present have three open spots on their projected common season roster, although arduous cap restrictions will forestall them from filling all of them. With solely 12 totally assured contracts, there’s an opportunity for Warren to make the roster with a powerful preseason exhibiting.
If he will get waived, the Exhibit 10 language would allow Warren to earn a bonus of as much as $77.5K if he spends at the least 60 days with New York’s G League affiliate.
