Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by McK1:

Posted by Bonn1997:

You get a player with a lower ceiling (JJ) and you have to give up less (merely protected picks). It makes sense.

Are you serious? A 2-way guard who can play all 3 perimeter positions effectively, Can drain shots out to 3, and is only 24 has a low ceiling?

Do you know the difference between "low" and "lower"?

Posted by newyorknewyork:

If we were to offer Curry to ATL for Marvin Williams and Josh Childress would ATL do it??

Edit. Or what if we add in a piece like Ariza.

[Edited by - newyorknewyork on 12-18-2005 9:52 PM]

Posted by bobs3304:

I'm sorry Mck, but I wouldn't dare put Sweets in the same sentence as Curry.

Agguire commented after training camp that he was shocked at how poorly coached he was in Chicago, and how he basically got through putting up 15 and 6 on raw talent and nothing more.

Once he gets healthy, and continues working on his game and improving, Eddy could become the most dominant Center in the leage after Shaq.

Sweets........won't.


THAT'S the difference. Real Centers are worth their weight in gold. And considering the fact that JJ is set to make 15 million a year, and Curry only 8 or 9, I'm pretty happy with the trade.

Zeke did what he had to bring him in.

Posted by McK1:

so why do you think Curry's contract is uninsured?

I'm sure the Knicks feel they're managing their risk, in two ways:

First, they have a team of doctors looking at Curry's health data to determine whether he's fit to play. Isiah must have said "I have tremendous confidence in our medical team" about 12 times in a 20-minute press conference on Tuesday night. He said the Knicks' doctors had reviewed the situation "from afar" and talked to some of Curry's doctors before executing the trade.

Second, the Knicks put some language in Curry's contract that gives them an escape hatch if the heart condition renders him unable to play.

However, Curry's contract isn't insured, as far as we know. (Thomas deflected questions about insurance, which I presume means the contract is just as uninsurable as it was three days ago.) That doesn't necessarily affect the Knicks on the court, but it does make Curry impossible to trade at virtually any point in the future. No matter what Eddy does in New York, the Knicks are stuck with him. With a coach who wants to trade his players about once every three weeks, that could make for interesting theater.

Thus, the Knicks didn't just give up Michael Sweetney and Tim Thomas. They also gave up an insurable contract, multiple draft choices, and the increased risk of a free-agent departure -- all to pay more money for a player the Knicks essentially already had in Sweetney: a high percentage-shooting big man who is in less-than-ideal shape and struggles on defense.