knicks1248 wrote:

October 13th, 2016 at 4:45pm CST by Dana Gauruder
The Knicks will re-sign forward Cleanthony Early, sources told Shams Charania of The Vertical (Twitter link). Early will likely start his season in the D-League as he continues his rehab from a hamstring injury, Charania adds.

The 6’8″ Early, 25, has played both of his NBA seasons with New York. He appeared in 17 games last season, including two starts, and averaged 1.8 points and 1.5 rebounds in 9.1 minutes. During the 2014/15 campaign, he appeared in 39 games, including seven starts, and averaged 5.4 points and 2.5 rebounds in 16.6 minutes.

The Knicks have mulled bringing back Early for quite some time and ultimately decided to give the former second-round pick another chance. They renounced their rights to him in early July in order to sign high-profile free agents, including Joakim Noah.

Early’s 2015/16 season was marred by an incident in late December which he was shot in the right knee and robbed. He did not return to action until the beginning of April.

Early’s hamstring injury occurred prior to the summer league, preventing him from participating with the Knicks’ entry in Orlando in July, and is apparently still affecting him. He’ll eventually give new coach Jeff Hornacek another option at the small forward spot.

not sure why

Didn't you complain about Phil purging the roster and not being loyal?

EwingsGlass wrote:

fishmike wrote:

Finestrg wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Nice. I think they can protect four players from training camp from the d league draft. Tokoto, Early, and Inglis definitely seem like guys signed to play in Westchester. It will be interesting to see if they plan on using a roster spot on Baker and/or Randle. If they do is a spot opened up with a trade, waiving Lou, or NDour or Plumlee not making the roster.

Hopefully we all get what we want out of this. Sasha on the roster for everyone who likes him, then N'Dour, Plumlee, Randle AND Baker (the last 4 being essential for me unless there's an outside chance we can come up with something better than Randle last minute, i.e. the Bulls waive Spencer Dinwiddie, Elliot Williams gets waived by GS, etc.). What might make all this work--N'Dour and Plumlee already getting guaranteed contracts. They got good money--most players of their type don't get guaranteed money. Now maybe they'd be ok going to Westchester, even playing the whole year there if need be, but not on the 15-man--then there'd be room to carry everyone else. Hopefully that's the goal: to keep everyone in the mix here one way or another. If that's what Phil's aiming for here--that's pretty smart. Thing is--I really like the way Plumlee's playing. Kinda want him on the 15-man right away ready to go, definitely ahead of O'Quinn, maybe even ahead of Willy. Never thought I would've said that a couple of weeks ago. I think Marshall's looked that good.

you can sign 15, keep 2 inactive and I believe those two can play in the dleague. My vote would be for Baker and NDour to get big minutes in Westchester and wait to get called up when someone goes down

Really? Remember everything you said in the Sasha thread? You gave his roster spot to Sasha... you cant claim to give the same spot to Baker here. You can only he signs outright with Westchester and has the moral wherewithal to wait out Jackson's infatuation with triangle relics...

EwingsGlass wrote:

fishmike wrote:

EwingsGlass wrote:

fishmike wrote:

Finestrg wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Nice. I think they can protect four players from training camp from the d league draft. Tokoto, Early, and Inglis definitely seem like guys signed to play in Westchester. It will be interesting to see if they plan on using a roster spot on Baker and/or Randle. If they do is a spot opened up with a trade, waiving Lou, or NDour or Plumlee not making the roster.

Hopefully we all get what we want out of this. Sasha on the roster for everyone who likes him, then N'Dour, Plumlee, Randle AND Baker (the last 4 being essential for me unless there's an outside chance we can come up with something better than Randle last minute, i.e. the Bulls waive Spencer Dinwiddie, Elliot Williams gets waived by GS, etc.). What might make all this work--N'Dour and Plumlee already getting guaranteed contracts. They got good money--most players of their type don't get guaranteed money. Now maybe they'd be ok going to Westchester, even playing the whole year there if need be, but not on the 15-man--then there'd be room to carry everyone else. Hopefully that's the goal: to keep everyone in the mix here one way or another. If that's what Phil's aiming for here--that's pretty smart. Thing is--I really like the way Plumlee's playing. Kinda want him on the 15-man right away ready to go, definitely ahead of O'Quinn, maybe even ahead of Willy. Never thought I would've said that a couple of weeks ago. I think Marshall's looked that good.

you can sign 15, keep 2 inactive and I believe those two can play in the dleague. My vote would be for Baker and NDour to get big minutes in Westchester and wait to get called up when someone goes down

Really? Remember everything you said in the Sasha thread? You gave his roster spot to Sasha... you cant claim to give the same spot to Baker here. You can only he signs outright with Westchester and has the moral wherewithal to wait out Jackson's infatuation with triangle relics...

Yea I said Sasha would be on the team and Baker should go to the dleague. Not sure what else you are trying to say aside from a stab at Phil Jackson (the same who to grabbed Baker in the first place).

Wait, what? I feel like I should just say "sorry honey" and nod my head sympathetically. I am takimg a stab at this mentality that we need triangle vets solely by virtue of the fact that they are triangle vets, not some otherwise tangible skill. That issue has nothing to do with my it,ost respect for Phil. See my tag line.

I also am the one supporting Baker. What I am really challenging is your math where you want to give the same roster spot to Sasha and Ron -- as you indicate Ron could have one of the last two roster spots and end up in the Dleague. So, who do you cut if you put Ndour and Baker on the 15 man and option them both to Dleague? There are not enough roster spots to do that without cutting Sasha or another vet.

To me build up the guard pipeline. So I would protect Randle and Baker first. NDour is a nice story but could be a roster casualty and is incredibly replaceable. Good guard play and stock piling shooters makes more sense.

“Each team can send up to 4 affiliates who are cut from camp to their D-League club. Some guys will have rights owned by other teams though. For example, JP Tokoto's NBADL rights are held by the Thunder’s D-League team. The W-Knicks would have to make a trade for him to play there.”