I guess it would be cool to have the Crawman on the team but wouldn't he be in the same situation as FWill is in right now (getting not enough minutes)?

an old bumped and bruised guy like penny (did you see what he shot last night) and guy like shandon, and guy like othella, and a guy like moochie, lenny can afford for them to sit for a young, dramatic, anigmatic, electiric, up and coming star like j. craw. bring him here and let isiah mentor him also. obviously if isiah made the offer, he wants him and thinks can help the knicks so he must have a plan. i'd get rid of houston, van horn, kurt. for a guy like that. obviously those trade are not pissible

swift and gooden are the guys i most like in that list
gooden is a kenyon type player and swift is just my favorite dunker in the nba, he rebounds too.

[Edited by - knixnprix on 01/18/2004 12:38:57]

talk about a log jam at SF. We'd have Van Horn, Anderson, Hardaway, Pippen and Robinson there.

http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/15544.htm

ISIAH EYES CRAWFORD

By MARC BERMAN

January 19, 2004 -- When Jamal Crawford torched the Knicks for 28 points at the Garden three weeks ago, it prompted Isiah Thomas to make the Stephon Marbury move to upgrade the point-guard position. Now he's getting greedy. The Knicks' prez wants the athletic Bulls point guard, too.

A recent report out of Chicago had Isiah making an offer for Crawford, who can play both point and shooting guard and can be on the floor with Marbury. Former Knicks GM Scott Layden also pursued Crawford, but he was infamous for making measly offers that insulted the intelligence of the competing GM.

For Thomas to pull this off, insiders say he'd have to take on a bad contract while giving up a player he likes — such as Kurt Thomas — thus adding more to the long-term payroll. It would seem a stretch. Crawford makes just $2.5 million and there isn't a comparable player making that on the Knicks.

Like he did with Penny Hardaway, Thomas may have to inherit a player with a hideous contract — such as Jerome Williams, who has three years and $18M left after this season — or Antonio Davis (two years, $25M left).

Thomas religiously had shopped Shandon Anderson, but his pact is one of the worst in basketball. However, Thomas did manage to trade Howard Eisley and Clarence Weatherspoon.

The low-level pawns the Bulls would have interest in are Othella Harrington, Frank Williams, Michael Doleac (only because his contract expires) and possibly first-round pick Michael Sweetney.

Thomas' pursuit of Crawford shows he's still focused on the broad picture of building a championship team.

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Isiah has shown some interest in signing recently cut Cavs center Bruno Sundov of Croatia to a 10-day contract. Isiah had the 7-2 project in Indiana.

Anderson is out of Lenny Wilkens' rotation, so his league-high consecutive games streak of 541 is ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^endangered. Wilkens put Anderson in with 1:51 left against the Bulls Saturday to keep the streak alive.

Copyright 2003 NYP Holdings, Inc.

plus-i dont trust these rumors. i check up on the ny post knicks page constantly, and I don't remember seeing any rumor there ever coming true.

Crawford has had stretches of brilliance in his young career. Coming out of college, he was touted as the 2nd coming of Penny Hardaway. He's a pretty deadly offensive weapon, with the ball handling skills of a PG.

If we're looking to build a team of the future, locking up a backcourt of Crawford/Marbury would be sweet. However, Allan Houston has a massive contract and looks like he'll be part of the team for the duration of the deal.

i like how the Knicks are built now, though moving into the future, we probably could stand to acquire a young bigman to develop-- with Penny/Houston/Marbury/Shandon/Moochie/FW, we're pretty deep at guard for at least the next 2 seasons.

It might be that Thomas is tryin to pry the package of Crawfard along with either Curry or Chanlder for Houston and takin on as many bad bulls contrats to make it all work. That is why the Bulls are hesitant. But Paxon is realy upset with Crawfard and Curry both, and they have let go of Brand before, there is a 1 in a million chance of that kind of deal happening. I'd love to get Curry and Crawfard for Houston, both buys are gonna be stars at 2 and 1 for yeasr to come for us. Next year would be dynomite with a lineup of:
C Curry/Doleac (Deke retires or something)
PF Thomas/Sweetney (or the other way around depending on how far Sweetney has developed)
SF Van Horn/Penny this is our veteran spot, keeps the team steady
SG Crawfard/Penny/sign a guy/draft
PG Steph/Williams note Williams can also play SG with Steph
That is a team wit ALOT of upside.

DOn't know if that would happen. If Zeke is loooking to trade H20 just to get back Crawford and Curry, They would have to take back Antonio Davis or Jerome Williams and possibly give Chicago Kurt thomas and/or Sweetney.

DAMN!! If this ever go down, this trade will make Marbury's deal look like a baseball minor league deal.

I had tried this trade on realgm but i don't think paxson would unload both Curry and Crawford altogether but you never know>>>
You have been assigned Trade ID number 1424950

If Curry comes to Knicks, Aguirre, the knicks assistant would make that dude Curry one of the most lethal dominating post-up player in the whole league.


[Edited by - WOODMANnYk on 01/19/2004 12:19:37]