The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Knicks (and a Crowded East)

Sep 22, 2026 · 2h 37m · take 13 of 42

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Billoffer with Harden

Billwhere the teams, it's like, oh, you know, Harden's agent. It's like, yeah, okay. So he's stuck at four for 50. It's like, fuse with us. That's five for 80. No question.

BillWe'd max him out. And now you plant that in the agents there and it's like, I mean, Houston would pay us that. And now you're so I feel like teams are teams are seeding that. Let's game it

Loweout. Like, let's let's go back like two months to to pretend like there's a little or a month and a half to pretend that there's a little more like flexibility among the other 29 teams who now have their rosters mostly filled, etc. You could pay Joe and earn $40 million a year, which it seems like is going to happen.

LoweBecause even the reports of them being apart are like, they're now just like 10 million apart

Billover five years. They're at 190 and he's at 40 a year. So yeah,

Loweyou're basically there. Don't figure that out.

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