skinny.

Latest / Necessary Roughness

#13: The KAT Contract Standoff

Necessary Roughness Ep. 13: The KAT Contract Standoff

Welcome back to Necessary Roughness—your daily dose of raw sports takes riffing straight off the Twitter feed.

The Knicks just won a championship and four months later they've stopped negotiating with their starting center. In this episode, we break down the Karl-Anthony Towns contract situation from top to bottom—what's actually been offered, what the market says he's worth, and why the gap has almost nothing to do with how the team values him as a player. We get into the NBA's second apron and what the CBA really takes away from a team…

The skinny

The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.