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Things can change, of course. Maybe the Knicks move off of future salary in a trade and open up some money. Maybe Dolan and the Knicks decide to increase future spending without regard for the second apron. It's worth noting that the Knicks and McBride’s representatives have been in regular contact ahead of the season. In a perfect world, those conversations would produce a multi-year extension for McBride. The longest-tenured Knick, McBride loves New York, loves his teammates; he was an integral part of this team’s rise. The fact that he’ll likely have to play this coming season with contract uncertainty is a shame. Yes, McBride on an expiring contract is one of the most valuable trade chips in the league. He would garner significant interest if New York made him available via trade – either in-season or in the offseason. We’re certainly not there yet. But logic tells you that’s where things could be headed.
Miles McBride: "Thibs did a great job, he built a great foundation."
New York Knicks guard Miles "Deuce" McBride brought the Larry O'Brien championship trophy to the Moeller Crusaders football team's 45-7 win against Groveport-Madison High School at Mount St. Joseph University. McBride, who won his first NBA title earlier this year in his fifth NBA season with the Knicks, was honored by Moeller during the game Aug. 28.
Stefan Bondy: This doesn't mean a Deuce McBride extension won't happen eventually but. ... Aug. 11 (today) is something of a soft deadline and there won't be an agreement today, league sources said. If McBride agrees to an extension after today, he can't be traded before the Feb. deadline.
“The group chat’s been going crazy,” Miles McBride told PEOPLE on the 40/40 red carpet at Fanatics Fest last month, just a few weeks after the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs to secure the championship. “Everybody’s celebrating in so many great different ways with their families, with their loved ones and it’s just been a lot of celebration texts going back and forth,” he said of the Knicks’ group chat. When PEOPLE asked McBride about the group chat name, he didn’t hesitate to share. “What do you think? ‘Champs,’ baby! Champs,” he said proudly.
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“Hasn’t sunken in,” McBride told PEOPLE of the victory, about one month after his team walked away with the Larry O’Brien Trophy. “Every time I hear ‘champ,’ it’s like, it feels right but it’s still such a blessing, such a surprise, I feel so grateful.” Shortly after the NBA Finals win, McBride told PEOPLE exclusively that it was “resiliency” that helped him and the Knicks get the job done against the Spurs in Game 5. “And that resiliency paid off, I became an impactful player just through work,” he said.
Jalen Brunson could become the new Michael Jordan of baby names. That prediction comes from Pamela Redmond, the creator and chief executive of the baby-naming website Nameberry. She and other baby-naming experts say names inspired by Knicks players are probably on the way, now that the Knicks have won the N.B.A. championship. Names like Jalen (Brunson), Joshua (Hart), Miles (McBride) and Tyler (Kolek) are already popular and rank among the top 1,000 names for boys born in the United States, according to data from the Social Security Administration. Landry (Shamet) is rising fast. Redmond expects a surge in the Knicks’ names, not only because of the team’s success, but also because the players are likable and captivated the city. She said that people have been “galvanized by the show of community, which feels like something that’s increasingly important at a time when it’s increasingly rare.”
But under coach Mike Brown this season, New York has leaned on its bench more than it ever did with Thibodeau. That's especially true in this playoff run, which is headed back to MSG for Monday's Game 3 of the Finals against the San Antonio Spurs (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC). Up and down the Knicks bench is evidence of a pie being divided more evenly: Beyond Shamet's contributions, guard Miles McBride has averaged career highs in minutes, scoring and 3-point percentage. Big man Mitchell Robinson has stayed upright after being carefully managed all season and is now being deployed against Victor Wembanyama in clutch time. Guard Jose Alvarado, a trade deadline acquisition, has provided his usual defensive annoyance and energy. "Everybody understands what our standard is," Brown said in December. "It's about sacrifice."
“Opportunity was the main thing,” McBride said when asked what coach Mike Brown has done well with developing the second unit. “He’s putting a lot of guys in different spots and he’s just allowing us to be us. We can play at a high level. I feel like a lot of guys can be starters at different places. We’re all happy here, we’re happy to impact the game at such a high level.”
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McBride, a second-round pick, averaged 2.2 points on 29.6 percent from the field in 40 games as a rookie. You wondered whether he’d ever make it in the NBA, and that skepticism remained for another one and a half seasons as McBride’s playing time/shooting efficiency hovered around unimpressive. Asked Monday to reflect on his personal journey to the Finals, McBride acknowledged, for the first time, that self-doubt crept in. “For sure. For sure,” McBride told The Post. “It was some tough, long nights.”
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