{"id":19834,"date":"2022-07-20T04:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/report-heat-prioritizing-kevin-durant-over-donovan-mitchell-jazz-not-interested-in-landing-rj-barrett\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T04:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:45:44","slug":"report-heat-prioritizing-kevin-durant-over-donovan-mitchell-jazz-not-interested-in-landing-rj-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/report-heat-prioritizing-kevin-durant-over-donovan-mitchell-jazz-not-interested-in-landing-rj-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Heat prioritizing Kevin Durant over Donovan Mitchell; Jazz not interested in landing RJ Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"
After a week full of breaking news and reports and a very quiet weekend in which the Knicks played for the Summer League championship, we’re back to the rumor mill.<\/p>\n
There have been three different stories\/developments on the Donovan Mitchell front which have popped up at different points and places around the internet on Tuesday, July 19, so let’s go one by one.<\/p>\n
Fisher, from BR.com, reported earlier today that \u201cKnicks personnel have projected confidence,\u201d according to the outlet’s sources, \u201cthat they will be able to land Mitchell without sacrificing RJ Barrett.\u201d That’s something that had been rumored last week but now seems to be strongly confirmed by sources close to the negotiations, or at least with intel regarding the Knicks front office and their plotted operations in order to acquire the Jazz guard.<\/p>\n
The idea about this \u201cconfidence\u201d has more to do with Utah’s unwillingness to risk handing Barret an extension, as Fischer also included in his column. Fischer wrote that \u201cUtah isn’t enamored by becoming the franchise that coughs up a sizable extension to Barrett.\u201d This feeling arises from the fact that RJ Barrett is entering the final year of his deal but still waiting for New York to offer him an extension (it’ll eventually come) that could be near the maximum amount of money he could receive at this point .<\/p>\n
New York Knicks beat writer Fred Katz, of The Athletic<\/em>, already touched on this topic a few weeks ago discussing Barrett’s potential extension and how much the wing could\/should expect to get with some anonymous NBA executives. The consensus: Barrett will get something in the ballpark of $25 million a year ago he puts pen to paper.<\/p>\n