PG Patrick Beverley $7,000,000
SG Demarr Carroll $6,000,000
SF Carmelo Anthony $22,875,000
PF Karl Anthony Towns $4,500,000
C Deandre Jordan $15,800,000

PG/SG Langston Galloway $845,000
SG/SF Tim Hardaway $1,304,000 -- Try to trade
SF/PF
PF/C
C Bismack Biyambo $5,500,000
Cleanthony Early $845,000
Jose Calderon $3,100,000 STRETCH

Total Cap $67,769,000.00



After Hitting the Salary Cap, I would use Rookie and Vet Minimum Contracts to fill in the roster. Add Antekoumpo for instance at $845,000. I would offer Shved and Bargs Vet min contracts. I doubt they take them.

crzymdups wrote:Shved has a $4M qualifying offer and a $6M cap hold.

Correct. You do not have to offer the QO. If you don't he becomes an unrestricted free agent. After we spend all our monopoly money, we can offer vet minimum contracts if he is still available.

RonRon wrote:Or like in the past, every FREE AGENT utilizes NYK's in order to get the highest possible offer, IE GRANT HILL, Steve Nash, Joe Johnson, Kobe, Lebron, etc...

Not sure what this adds to the discussion. Also, none of the players you mentioned needed to use NY to drive up their price because they were all max contract players at the time of their free agency. They only had to choose which max contract to accept.

crzymdups wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:

RonRon wrote:Or like in the past, every FREE AGENT utilizes NYK's in order to get the highest possible offer, IE GRANT HILL, Steve Nash, Joe Johnson, Kobe, Lebron, etc...

Not sure what this adds to the discussion. Also, none of the players you mentioned needed to use NY to drive up their price because they were all max contract players at the time of their free agency. They only had to choose which max contract to accept.

Grant Hill did this when MDA was here to get more money out of Phoenix when he was a $3M a year player.

You are right. I was thinking of the first go round - to Orlando.

Bonn1997 wrote:I'd be fine with 8 mil per. I think he helps his team as much as Monroe does.

I think he helps more than Monroe - he actually defends and helps spread the floor.

And he's cheaper.

crzymdups wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:I'd be fine with 8 mil per. I think he helps his team as much as Monroe does.

I think he helps more than Monroe - he actually defends and helps spread the floor.

And he's cheaper.

CrushAlot wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:

crzymdups wrote:Shved has a $4M qualifying offer and a $6M cap hold.

Correct. You do not have to offer the QO. If you don't he becomes an unrestricted free agent. After we spend all our monopoly money, we can offer vet minimum contracts if he is still available.

I worry that he returns to Europe if he doesn't get more than a vet mini deal. He has said that playing in the nba has always been his dream.

hard to tell if he is worth more. High usage rate skews stats. On next year's team I would expect him to have to do a lot of work without the ball. I didn't see great defense, but then again, they were tanking.

Korver, Scott, Jenkins, Mack 2012-13
Millsap, Carroll, Muscala and Schroder 2013-14
Sefolosha, Bazemore 2014-15

The Knicks aren't looking to add that many players this summer. We're looking at the Draft pick and perhaps 3 FA's.