BRIGGS wrote:Sam Presti is waiting to jam Kevin Duarnt down our throat for Okafor or Towns. He understands what a Jones fracture is Dolan understands what a Gin and Tonic is. He knoiws the Knicks go for names names that are ven injured Amare Mcdyess etc... and will pay big for the name. He knows after the second attempt to fix the Jones fracture that KD is fcked and he no matter is words wont go down that road even for KD. I know from listening to many NY writers that they know little about basketball--that they will endorse this--sell it to the fans no matter how stupid the move would actually be. NY Sports fan always love the big name"yeah we got KD man" but how many fans really know winning basketball" very few because they keep filling up MSG. Some of the offseason moves are obvious--in fact they are no brainers--but really do I have confidene that anyone from the Knicks organization of even 90% of the fans themselves really get it??? Nope. Get ready for KD and is fcked up foot in NY and the sckers who buy it.

Where are you getting all this??..Is it just personal speculation??

Also, I'm pretty sure KD will rebound just fine from this injury...

Knixkik wrote:For some reason there is this thought around here that every injury is career threatening/hindering. It is something I don't think I will ever understand.

This is a bad injury for a 7 foot basketball player. Same injury Bill Walton and Yao Ming had. Of all sports basketball and Jones fracture = bad news. The worst news is they had two surgeries and they shut him down again Since he being compensated a full year of may be needed.

TripleThreat wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Sam Presti is waiting to jam Kevin Duarnt down our throat for Okafor or Towns.

1. 250 combinations, 25.0% chance
2. 199 combinations, 19.9% chance
3. 156 combinations, 15.6% chance
4. 104 combinations, 10.4% chance
5. 103 combinations, 10.3% chance

There's no guarantee that the NY Knicks will win the draft lottery. You treat it as an absolute.

OKC will not trade Durant while he is currently injured. It just doesn't happen.

OKC doesn't need to make that decision today. They have time to defer that decision. If you add in a possible lockout, that could even extend the timetable further.

There are 30 other NBA franchises with whom Durant can be traded to, if the OKC decides to trade him.

Based on his desire or lack of desire to sign an extension with said new team, Durant can essentially control where he goes and create an artificial limiter on how much the other team gets gutted in a trade.

Trading Durant would actually change the valuation of the entire OKC Thunder franchise. It wouldn't be done lightly and honestly the franchise would need a rock solid return in terms of a marketable player. (Okafor and Towns don't count here, not at this point)

One thing I don't understand about the lottery odds is: once the first pick is out of the way, do we then have a 19.9% of getting the second pick, or do the odds increase from what they were at the outset?

For BRIGGs nightmare scenario to happen we need:

1) to win the lottery (odds are against it- we'll probably get the 4th pick)
2) KD's foot injury to be chronic
3) NY to overlook the obvious injury issue
3) OKC to decide they are going to trade him
4) OKC to decide they are going to trade him to us

That's a lot of improbables (apart from 3)

TripleThreat wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Sam Presti is waiting to jam Kevin Duarnt down our throat for Okafor or Towns.

1. 250 combinations, 25.0% chance
2. 199 combinations, 19.9% chance
3. 156 combinations, 15.6% chance
4. 104 combinations, 10.4% chance
5. 103 combinations, 10.3% chance

There's no guarantee that the NY Knicks will win the draft lottery. You treat it as an absolute.

OKC will not trade Durant while he is currently injured. It just doesn't happen.

OKC doesn't need to make that decision today. They have time to defer that decision. If you add in a possible lockout, that could even extend the timetable further.

There are 30 other NBA franchises with whom Durant can be traded to, if the OKC decides to trade him.

Based on his desire or lack of desire to sign an extension with said new team, Durant can essentially control where he goes and create an artificial limiter on how much the other team gets gutted in a trade.

Trading Durant would actually change the valuation of the entire OKC Thunder franchise. It wouldn't be done lightly and honestly the franchise would need a rock solid return in terms of a marketable player. (Okafor and Towns don't count here, not at this point)

Triple Threat sounds like you would trade this year number 1 and two more for Durant(but I never can understand exactly the point you are making???). If K Durant was healthy and he wanted to come here during FA in 2016 I would take him if we traded Melo first.

GoNyGoNyGo wrote:I am in the camp of building a team with the first pick this year and getting a top FA and a few others solid players for a good contracts.

I would like to see a 40-45 win team next year and then with the additional cap space next summer, make the NEXT move what puts the team at a Championship contending level because of the signing and this years #1 becoming a force. Melo should be a 2nd fiddle by then.

I really hope PJax does not trade this years pick for Durant. Really.

You do know that this talk of Durant for the first pick is all in Brigg's head right??