NBA, News: Kemba Walker agrees with OKC on buyout and follows the New York Knicks

Kemba Walker has agreed on a buyout with the Oklahoma Ciy Thunder and willingly join the New York Knicks. The report uses US media.

Both Adrian Wojnarowski (ESPN) as well as Shams Charania (the Athletic) report that Walker will connect the New York Knicks when he has passed through the Waiver process. The Guard had two years of contract in OKC, which would have introduced him around $ 74 million.

How much money Walker renounces to connect the kink is not known so far. Thunder had acquired the Point Guard in June by a trade with the Boston Celtics and additionally received the 16th pick in the draft 2021. In return, Okc Big Man Al Horford and Moses Brown sent to Beantown.

Walker has not even carried the Jersey of the Thunder, in the past season, the built-up player was 43 times for the Celtics used, in which he raised 19.3 points and 4.9 assists on average. In his two years with the Celtics, the fourfold all-star but always made knee problems, which is why Boston finally thirsted the guard.

Walker now returns to his hometown of New York, the 31-year-old grew up in the Bronx and laughed at the Free Agency 2019 with a commitment to Madison Square Garden before he finally decided for the Celtics.

Kemba Walker is the new Point Guard of the New York Knicks

One of his greatest career moment Walker also experienced in the MSG when he sank an iconic buzzerbeater in 2011 with Uconn in the quarterfinals of the Big-12 tournament against Pittsburgh.

With the knicks, Walker closes the gap on Point Guard, the playmaker will probably cash between eight and nine million dollars annually. It is probably a contract for two years.

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Through the Walker Coup, the kinks have now done their homework, possibly the New Yorkers will only fill their squad by smaller deals. With Derrick Rose, Nerlens Noel and Alec Burks, their own free agents were kept, in Evan Fournier, the knicks also undertook a dangerous scorer for the wing.