NBA Rumors: The Knicks plan to sign Jalen Brunson

With a week to go until the start of Free Agency 2022 , and NBA Rumors are red hot.

One of the players that the spotlights are pointing the most to these days is Jalen Brunson .

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The Dallas Mavericks player will be one of the most requested free agents.

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the Big Apple franchise has Brunson as one of its main targets in the transfer market.

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strategy to free up enough space to face the contract requested by the 25-year-old point guard.

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The player enters the 2022/23 season in the final year of his contract,

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a strategy to free up enough space to face the contract requested by the 25-year-old point guard.

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where he will earn $5.9 million fully guaranteed.

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Gibson, for his part, also enters his final season on contract,

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only in this case it's $5.1 million unguaranteed.

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