Joakim Noah and Knicks will be released from each other

The quarrel between the New York Knicks and their most overpaid and underused player may be close to a resolution, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic:

"Midway", of course, is not a technical term. We do not know what will happen to this albatross contract in the 11 days before the start of the training camp. If the Knicks continue to "make commercial calls", it's only in the sense that Kristaps Porzingis could "work with Rihanna DMs". Even his former Bulls coach, Tom Thibodeau, does not seem ready to get the whole group to finish the job), would be an eye. Without another perspective, Noah has no incentive to buy back and leave millions of dollars on the table; he will still get his paycheque even if the only basketball he plays is the drug pool, with surfer Laird Hamilton.

The hijacking seems to be the most likely route, although there is reason to believe that it limits the flexibility of the Knicks as team jockeys for up to two free agents this summer. Noah would have fought with former coach Jeff Hornacek, but the team replaced him with David Fizdale, and it's hard to understand why Noah's move is an urgent priority at this time. The training camp is not a milestone of the contract; After September 1, his salary for this season is a sunk cost. It's hard to understand how the relationship could have escalated enough to accelerate the Knicks to that conclusion, when they could just let it go, and the Knicks thought it was one of the worst teams in the league with or without Noah. Maybe his mere presence on the list is bad juju.