This is about as low-stakes a restricted free agent offer sheet as you are going to see.
The New York Knicks have reportedly signed center Moussa Cisse to a two-year offer sheet, first reported by Jake Fischer of The Stein Line. Both years of the offer are at the minimum, and while the first year is partially guaranteed, the second year is non-guaranteed, ESPN reports.
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Dallas has 48 hours to match.
There is not much risk in New York making this offer, they are limited in what they can pay and still stay under the second apron (which owner James Dolan has said the team will do).
Cisse went undrafted out of Memphis (he played for three colleges across five years) but signed with Dallas on an Exhibit 10 deal last season (essentially a training camp deal) and was later converted to a two-way contract. He played 38 games with the Mavericks, averaging 4.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. For stretches, he was a regular part of the Mavericks’ frontcourt rotation.
New York, looking for an inexpensive and athletic third center, and Cisse is athletic, can finish lobs and is a rim protector. With Mitchell Robinson and Ariel Hukporti gone in free agency, New York needs another big man off the bench.