00:00The question is, has he earned a maximum extension of four years and $272 million?
00:05Kat's max is basically whatever Donovan Mitchell's getting right now
00:10and whatever Shea Gildas Alexander's about to get right now.
00:13Four years and about $272 million.
00:17Average annual value, $68 million.
00:22That is a lot of money.
00:24So what are you saying?
00:24Is he worth the max extension or not?
00:26I think he's worth the extension.
00:28I didn't hear the word max in there, sir.
00:31I didn't hear the word max in there.
00:32That is a lot of money.
00:34To pay also for, again, and we're going to give him a lot of credit
00:38for basically helping the Knicks win the title for obvious reasons.
00:43Oh, got to.
00:43But if you're talking about just a financial conversation in a salary cap sport,
00:48because if there were no salary cap, I'd be, yeah, yeah, give Kat the money.
00:52But in a salary cap sport where the second apron looms,
00:57can you really pay him basically the second highest contract
01:01or the highest contract in the NBA?
01:04In the NBA.
01:05For your second option.
01:06While you're about to pay Jalen Brunson the same contract, maybe more,
01:11I don't know what his max is actually going to be,
01:12but it's going to be in that territory.
01:14And he's getting every dollar this time.
01:16He's not taking $113 million pay cut.
01:19So, like, to me, there aren't that many guys that are worth the max.
01:24Like, we give maxes out to guys who are not max players.
01:27I don't think – I think you can give Kat a lot of money,
01:30but with the context of it being a salary cap sport,
01:33I don't think you can give him the biggest contract in the NBA,
01:36which is essentially what it would be.
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