i'd trade Malik, Frye & Nate for Artest at this point if SAC would be willing to do it... Nate's a headcase as it is, & Frye's as soft as they come... it's a big risk to give up 2 talented young players for a guy who could be expelled from the league w/another big blowup like he had in the brawl, but at this point, i'd have to do it... his contract would come off the books when Marbury comes off, so at that point if you need to, you can start fresh w/a clean slate & a ton of salary coming off the books the same season in Marbury, Francis & co... at this point, there's really no viable trade options for either of those guys, & Isiah's not likely to be trading Marbury regardless if there was or not... Malik's contract runs the same length as Artest's, so neither team would be taking on any excess cap (besides the rookie deals of the 2 young guys).

so w/that, i think you take the plunge & make the deal... you'd still have Lee, Balk, Mardy & Curry as a young core to build on after those veterans leave, so the future wouldn't be mortgaged at all.

if we could unload big-snacks and "the franchise" i may be swayed to take on k-mart. that's a pretty big risk though.

Let it go. Keep what we have, because we can't get rid of it anyway and see if any of the youngens can pull it out and let certain contracts (starbury, Francis, Jerome, ect.) at least get into the last year and 'then' make some solid trades. The other option is, let the money sit, until a big free agent is on the market.

K-mart and artest fill in the blanks well on the video game knicks.

Fantasy basketball. Tell me, does Thomas get fired and does Dolan sell the team in fantasy basketball? Do we get rid of starbury. Even better yet, in fantasy basketball, does starbury get traded to miami for Wade?

Posted by K22:

Kenyon Martin? In a NYK jersey? Hell no.

Haven't we already learned our lesson about trading for broken-down Denver power forwards?

Haven't we learned yet not' to go get any player who is halfway out the door? Jerome and Francis to name a few. How about when we got Mutombo and Malik and Dice? All halfway out the door, injured, non effective players.