has anyone heard about this??

http://www.basketball.com/cgi-bin/posters/printPost.cgi?category=fprightfeature3&at=nba1.shtml

Wow... This is news to me... Let's see if it really pans out.. I gotta check the contracts and see if it helps our cap situation. I don't know how long Calvin Booth and Vitaly Potapenko's deals are. Let's look it up and see...

[Edited by - HARDCOREKNICKSFAN on 08/12/2003 12:41:57]

Both of those guys have horrible long deals and are garbage time players. This would be a terrible trade.

Booth's deal lasts till 06/07 from 3.4 to 6.8 mil.
Potapenko's deal lasts till 04/05 from 5.7 to 6.1 mil.

Rain, aren't you kinda hard on this deal? Booth's contract is 1 year longer than Spoon's, gets similar money, but is a center that we need. He brings size @ the 5 in exchange for Spoon, who we don't need now that we have Sweetney. Booth is also younger, so there's fresher legs with more ups. Potapenko is a center whose contract is up after next season. Charlie Ward can be bought out with 2 mil but at least we get something back at a position we need to improve in.

This deal isn't really that bad. I can dig it...

If I could, I'd buy out Ward and try to put Eisley in that deal. We can start Williams and sign a PG to come off the bench.

[Edited by - HARDCOREKNICKSFAN on 08/12/2003 16:26:00]

the deal is good,but something else gotta happen.

Does this trade make sense for the Sonics?

Here's my take on Ward. His contract is about $6mil... so we have a couple of options with him. Hold on to him and buy out his contract. This will cost us $2million, but we'll save $12mil combined by losing his contract and the $6 mil from the luxury tax. The Sonics might actually be interested in the money savings.

However, the only thing this will accomplish is saving the Knicks organization money. It will arguably make us less competitive. Of course, it opens up playing time in our backcourt for FW... We could also potentially re-sign Ward for less.

Why would the Sonics want 'Spoon? Well, he's a better proven rebounder than anyone on the Sonics roster. His contract is also shorter than Booth's. It would also lighten their logjam at center.


About the players:
Booth was highly sought after 2 years ago... but an ankle injury/surgery slowed him down. Who knows if he ever fully recovered. He was considered a "high basketball IQ" guy, w/ average athleticism. Dallas wanted him bigtime... so did the Knicks. If he's healthy, he's a very solid center... and he's tall.

Potapenko is a big mule-- like a bigger version of Tractor Traylor. I guess he's a useful banger--- plus he could be traded later this year to a contender if we can't find time for him.

O yeah i'll take Jerome James over them two,but it looks like the Sonics are willing to stick with him.I dont blame them.He reminds me of Dampier.Which i hope the Knicks would involve one of these centers or both for Dampier or maybe get Thomas involved as well and i'll throw in our 2nd. round pick.Dampier would be a force in the east.Knicks would be easily in the playoffs imo.

I would rather have James than Booth.

Knicksbb I agree, James has a nickname(BIG SNACKS) as soon as he received his contract he went back into hibernation!

the deal stinks...instead of having a bunch of crappy PFs we get a bunch of crappy centers. I would do Spoon for Potempeko, but Booth's deal stinks and I want no part of it.

Hell, HERB WILLIAMS as old as he is is still better than all of those guys !! He can be a player coach.......... lol..