Let's say the Knicks could get Beal for RJ, Mitch and 2 first rounders. Just for the sake of argument, ok add in some 2nd rounders and Knox. Even if you want to make it 3 first rounders...fine. That's a lot right? It is. But you'd still have guys like Randle, Quickley and Obi here. Obi could be trade bait for something else. ANd here's the bigger thing--the Knicks would have cap room to add another star or even 2.
The trade for Beal is a tough call, but the bigger question is what could the Knicks do AFTER they trade for Beal. If they had other moves lined up, sort of like what the Lakers did with Lebron and AD, and I have no doubts that Rose and Co. are well organized and thinking 2 steps ahead, trading a lot of resources for Beal might still be the smart play.
"Melo trade all over again" --not quite. When the Knicks dealt for Melo, they liquified every draft pick they had. They also traded every young player worth anything that they had. And they didn't have that much cap room going forward. They had to amnesty the only PG on their team, Billups, just to land the good center in Chandler. So that was that-- the front line dream trifecta of MElo, Stat and Chandler and basically pray for rain. And once Stat's knees and body were done, we were done.
Knicks have more room to grow than they did back in 2010-2011. They have more chips. They need to use them wisely, but trading for Beal doesn't necessarily leave the coffers empty even if they do deal 2-3 picks and 2 young players.
Not even sure I want to go all on Beal but there's reasons to believe we'd have the makings of a big 3-4 if we got him. Beal, Randle, FA, Quickley, Rose? and some MLEs? Not bad.
