From Tokyo to New York, there is only one step.
While Evan Fournier is in the Japanese capital to play this Tuesday in the quarter-final of the French basketball team against Italy, the French back has just signed a four-year contract for, 78 million dollars , with the New York Knicks.
Information confirmed by the subject matter specialist Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Free agent Evan Fournier has agreed to a four-year deal that could be worth as much as $ 78M with the New York Knicks, source tells ESPN.
- Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 3, 2021
The former Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic player was a free agent before the start of the 2021-22 season.
The international full-back (28 years old, 2.01 m, 77 caps), who averaged 17.1 points last season, could bring his qualities as an outside shooter in a team eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
The French will find the star in power Julius Randle (24.1 points on average), but not Frank Ntilikina, left free after four complicated years in New York.
Fournier arrives in a team now stable since the franchise coached by Tom Thibodeau has extended three of its players: point guard Derrick Rose, inside Nerlens Noëls and full-back Alec Burks.
Batum extends to the Clippers
Also present in Tokyo, Nicolas Batum preferred to stay at the Los Angeles Clippers.
Finalist of the Western Conference, the Kawhi Leonard gang are aiming for the title this season.
The tricolor handyman (8.1 points and 4.7 rebounds per game this season) should sign a two-year contract according to the very informed site The Athletic.
The preseason in the NBA was mainly marked by the departure of Russell Westbrook, regular season MVP in 2017 and nine times All-Star, to the Los Angeles Lakers of LeBron James.
The 32-year-old point guard was traded by the Washington Wizards for three players (Kyle Kuzma, Montrezl Harrell and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope) and a draft pick.
Westbrook comes to form a huge "Big 3" with James and Anthony Davies.
