I am not saying Lee is great what I am saying is he has leverage now and the Knicks dont. Lee is a good deal at 35-40 now the market will command 50

Posted by Allanfan20:

As for his defense, I can live with his man to man in the post. However, his help defense is horrific to no end and he still doesn't go out after shooters aggresively. I just don't know why a hard worker like Lee is like this on the defensive end. He can be much better.

I think the best power forwards bang... Lee doesn't do that. I mean, the great ones hammer away on offense and defense. I don't think Lee likes it, and that's okay if he's the third best player on the team. Which is what makes this off-season so intriguing, for all those obvious reasons

Letting Lee walk and getting nothing in return would be an absolute disaster.

I don't care how you feel about Lee, whether you love him or hate him, he is still an asset to this franchise and we have to get the most value out of him that we can (whether it is by keeping him or trading him down the line).

If Lee was on a different team and we had cap space, I guarantee you there would be threads about "We should sign Lee!!!." Young frontcourt players that average 16 ppg, 12 rpg, and shoot 55% are very difficult to find in this league. Bad team or not, a guy like that will always have value.

Do I think Lee's numbers are padded? Of course I do. I think the guy can grab rebounds but I certainly don't think he would average 12 boards on most of the other teams in the NBA. That doesn't matter though because Lee is on our team and he is putting up those numbers. If we were to trade him next season, I don't think his numbers would fall off very much from this season's numbers (which means we would still be able to get value for him).

Lee certainly needs to work on his help side D though. I think that area is his biggest weakness but I don't see why he can't improve. His man defense (which is harder to improve) is actually decent and there is nothing David can do about taller guys shooting over him and making a shot (e.g. Brook Lopez).

By the way, for those that really want LeBron here, how do you defend getting rid of Lee? Lee is a great offensive complement to LeBron. If you thought Duhon helped Lee at all this season, then you should be smart enough to realize that LeBron would make David look like a superstar. Guys that can finish around the basket and grab offensive rebounds are the type of big guys you would want around James.

If they win 33 games there's a lot of gamblers that will be happy. I think we're in tank mode.

Lee can take 50 and goto another team.