Sources: Knicks exercising Ariel Hukporti's team option, planning to decline PJ Tucker's

The Knicks are exercising their team option on center Ariel Hukporti while declining the option for veteran PJ Tucker, reducing payroll by $3.5 million. This gives them flexibility to utilize the $5.6M taxpayer exception for sign-and-trade options and pursue free agents like Landry Shamet, who performed well in the postseason, and they also extended a qualifying offer to Kevin McCullar Jr..

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