TMS wrote:seriously tho, if we don't get Lebron/Wade/Bosh/Amare, u know the Knicks will cap out with 2nd tier guys because they won't want to look like fools & give up swap rights to yet another lottery pick after we just gave up our 2010 pick... more than likely we'll be signing Joe Johnson & extending Lee to an overpaid extension, along w/1 other FA like a Ray Felton (unless they divy up the remainder of the cap on role players like Sergio, House, etc.)

if we gave up Jordan Hill, swap rights & our 2012 pick so we can sign Joe Johnson & re-sign Lee, was this trade really justified?

No, it's certainly all in. Hope Donnie made a good read before placing this bet. But I like the odds so I am down with the plan. Lebron only comes around once in his prime. You can't pass it up if your the NYK. Like Donnie said, we have flexibility now, which is a shyteload more than we had the last couple of years. Let's make a team and stop crying over Jordan Hill or some chump in 2012 who MIGHT has skillz.

nixluva wrote:Yeah the draft has been a lock to turn around every fanchise that got the top pick! The draft is as shaky as FA Market if not more. Draft is great If you get a Shaq, Duncan, Kobe, Wade to win a title or you can try to grab a bunch of really good players a la Boston or to a lesser degree Detroit.

We could also go after young talent like Gay. Try to pick off guys that haven't peaked or are on teams with too many guys to pay. We could still get considerably better while holding cash for 2011. The guys we have left are really young so there's no rush to spend every dime if we strike out with the big dog FA's.

i love the way you make reason of the fact we're throwing away draft picks like they're useless commodities that aren't worth holding onto... i wonder how you would have felt if someone had suggested we give up our #8 lottery pick & 2 future picks just to dump Fishlips' contract a month ago? i'm all for going after Lebron but i think we paid a huge price to gain that cap flexibility, & sorry but i don't share your viewpoint that draft picks are no big loss, they most certainly are especially w/the history this franchise has had in recent years of giving away picks that ended up being good players at the NBA level, much less guys that were picked after those guys who would have been available to take as well... this is absolutely not a no brainer deal that Donnie Walsh made, it's a huge gamble & only a fool would look at it otherwise.