Posted by gunsnewing:

the only thing I'm worried about is it would've been smarter for houston to accept amnesty and go to a contender. Why would he now retire? when has he ever done anything considerate for this franchise? He's not going to retire and we're going to be stuck with his $20mil per for 2 more years

i think LB and isiah talked to houston and if he cant comeback sometime this season(fully healthy) he probably promised them he would retire. If he comes back healthy, we can use him. If he rehabs all yr, and is still not healthy, i'm sure he'll retire.

Posted by Allanfan20:

Knicks have no one but themselves to blame. You can blame Houston for the decline of the franchise all you want, but the screw ups the Knicks have made have faaaaaaaar outweighed Houstons contract and injuries.

Good point, even if Houston had been given a contract commensurate with his performance, maybe averaging 10-11mm per instead of $20mm, it would have no bearing at all on the Knicks cap situation, or other bonehead moves like the Ewing and McDyess trades. The $100mm contract really only did two things: Made him harder to trade, and made him a beacon, a symbol of everything that was wrong with the Knicks business model under the Layden regime, even though it was Checketts that gave him the deal in the first place. If he was paid less than say Sprewell, would he have been such a target of derision?

Methinks not.

Posted by HARDCOREKNICKSFAN:

No, It's not about "sometime this season" because that was Allan's excuse/reason/copout LAST year.

I am SO tired of this drama. I really hoped it would have ended today.

hey, i'm just going by what i am reading in the news.