Attempting to gain insight into Iman Shumpert's future with the New York Knicks is a convoluted and futile endeavor. Knowledge-seekers would be better off trying to complete a 1,000-piece puzzle of perfectly paved blacktop using only their feet.
There is no right or wrong answer when predicting what the months ahead have in store. Shumpert could be traded. He could leave in restricted free agency. The Knicks could pass on his qualifying offer, making him an unrestricted free agent; and as an unrestricted free agent, he could leave to form a superteam with Giannis Antetokounmpo on the Milwaukee Bucks. We don't know.
All we really do know, thanks to ESPN New York's Ian Begley, is that he will not join fourth-year peers like Nikola Vucevic and Kenneth Faried in signing an extension. He and the Knicks apparently haven't even held talks, which, admittedly, should come as no surprise.
Shumpert's tenure in New York has been topsy-turvy, to say the least. Touted as one of the league's premier perimeter defenders, he's fallen victim to injuries and mind-boggling shooting splits that, even after ...
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