Julius Randle led the New York Knicks to the playoffs for the first time since 2013, won the league’s Most Improved Player award, and is a strong candidate for a spot on an All-NBA Team, according to our HoopsHype media voting poll.
He has a $19.8 million non-guaranteed salary for next season with the Knicks in the final season of his contract and guaranteeing that salary is a mere formality coming off his career year. He will then be eligible for a four-year, $106.44 million contract extension with the Knicks that begins during the 2022-23 season, as noted by HoopsHype’s salary cap expert Yossi Gozlan.
With that in mind, HoopsHype polled eight executives and five scouts for their thoughts on whether Randle’s career year was a fluke and whether or not they would offer him that max extension this summer if they were the Knicks. Of those polled, four said they’d offer the max extension, two were unsure, and seven said they’d wait until next summer to make a long-term financial commitment to Randle.