CrushAlot wrote:

Jeff Zillgitt ‏@JeffZillgitt · 5h5 hours ago
A player the Magic are willing to deal for mininmal return, I'm told, is forward Moe Harkless, whose minutes have dropped each season w/ORL.

I do find it weird how he ended up not getting any playing time- looked promising last year, then nothing this year. I became even more suspicious when they fired their coach and he STILL didn't get any playing time.

smackeddog wrote:Hmm, this rules some players out of trade and free agent contention:

"We only want guys in our locker room that care about the team more than themselves," coach Derek Fisher said. "That's what we're trying to build here. Every decision we make going forward is going to be with that in mind."

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/turnover-filled-week-looms-for-knicks-1.9948486

So that rules out Reggie Jackson for one!

Then why resign Melo?

BRIGGS wrote:unless someone wants to take Calderon's contract or flip us a pick for almost any player on our roster--Hardaway Jason Smith(I mean hes a UFA anyway) etc.. everything should be up for sale and we want nothing but picks in return for now.

We just need to stay in position for the best pick possible--thats goal #1--we can do nothing more than that. Maybe we have some roster spots open and we can look at d league guys but we just have to play out the last 29 hope they go quick and move on.

so you would prefer to go into next season with a bunch of teeny boppers like minny and philly, with a in experience coach, no leader on the floor, and loose another 60+.

You know i really wonder what planet you guys live on sometimes. some of you have this imagination that gives this rosey out look of drafting 4 yr players with high IQ's and high character guys, like phil is the caoch.

Veterans win game, veterans win championships. When you have young loss talented players, they get traded for nothing aka shumpert and soon to be THJ. This becomes a vicious never ending cycle. Wake up, you only need 1 or 2 young players on a real winning roster.

If starks and Mason didn't have vets like Ewing, Oak, harper, blackmon, doc rivers around them, they would have never made the impact that they had.

When duncan, parker, and ginobli joined the spurs, the had a veteran high character guys around them to bring them along, robinson, elliot, eli, avery. These were good locker room guys, that were very professional.

Same thing with the rockets when they had rookie sam cassel in 94, he joined a veteran team, same thing with the bulls, the lakers, dallas, ect.

I can't stand it when it when all i hear is how many picks we can get, when has that ever been a reciepe for success