Restricted free agent Immanuel Quickley agrees to 5-year, $175 million contract with Raptors: Report

Immanuel Quickley dribbles during the second half of a game at the Scotiabank Arena on April 7, 2024, in Toronto. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images)

Restricted free agent guard Immanuel Quickley has agreed to terms on a five-year, $175 million contract with the Toronto Raptors, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The 25th pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, Quickley spent his first 3 1/2 seasons with the New York Knicks, serving primarily as a spark-plug combo guard off the bench for head coach Tom Thibodeau. He became a fan favorite at Madison Square Garden for his combination of speed in transition, quick-trigger launches from 3-point land, excellent point-of-attack and help-side defense and penchant for helping tilt games whenever he checked in.

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New York’s net rating was 8.1 points per 100 possessions better with Quickley on the floor than off it in 2020-21, 12.2 points per 100 better in 2021-22 and 8.5 points per 100 better in 2022-23 — a breakout third season in which the Kentucky product averaged 14.9 points on 45/37/82 shooting splits to go with 4.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1 steal in 28.9 minutes per game and finished second in Sixth Man of the Year voting. (Full disclosure: I had him first on my ballot.)

Quickley’s per-minute/per-possession production and sterling advanced analytical profile suggested he was a player who, given starter’s minutes and a heavier workload, might prove to be a star hiding in plain sight. But with Jalen Brunson entrenching himself as a bona fide superstar in New York — and Thibodeau evidently uncomfortable with the defensive drawbacks of pairing two smaller guards, irrespective of the sparkling lineup data for the tandem — it didn’t seem likely Quickley would get that kind of runway on Broadway. And with a high-cost decision on his future coming in the form of his looming restricted free agency, the Knicks chose to spin off Quickley, shipping him to Toronto along with forward RJ Barrett in exchange for 3-and-D wing OG Anunoby, reserve big man Precious Achiuwa and backup guard Malachi Flynn (who would later go on to put up one of the most…

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Publish date : 2024-06-28 13:42:44

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