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The New York Knicks are willing to pursue Fred VanVleet in free agency, per Ian Begley of SNY TV.

Yet, the Knicks have no offer ready yet, despite the reports.

“League sources say that Fred VanVleet is indeed among the free agent options under consideration by New York. I don’t know how strong the Knicks’ interest in VanVleet is, but there was one report about New York preparing an offer of more than $20 million per season for the point guard.

Clearly, that’s the kind of offer a team would need to make to try to pry VanVleet from Toronto. But a source familiar with the matter strongly disputes the idea that New York has any offer prepared for VanVleet at the moment,” Begley reports.

VanVleet averaged 17.6 points, 3.8 rebounds and 6.6 assists per game for the Raptors in the 2019/20 season.