What you are basically saying is that if you can't get any of those 3, don't sign anybody else for the max, sign Rudy and david lee for roughly 11 a piece, then swap picks with houston ( cause we will be a lottery team) sit back and wait and watch melo re-up with denver, CP3 will get traded (in a similar way gasol got traded) and be left in the cold for another 5 years.

Donny is going to have to over pay for at least one player not name wade, bron, or bosh..thats the nature of the sports business. If you want to put amare and joe in the 2nd tier, thats fine, but just remember we have no superstar on this team as an incentive to come play with.

nyk4ever wrote:i'm not too excited about jj/amar'e combo, but atleast it's something. if we can add tony parker to the mix, that team is pretty good.

iSergio wrote:How are Amare Stoudemire and Mike D'Antoni going to get along and make it work after all the trash talking they have done the last few years?

iSergio wrote:

BigSm00th wrote:OMG if we wasted 2 seasons, jordan hill, the 2011 and 2012 draft picks to clear room and get....JOE JOHNSON and AMARE I just won't know what to do with myself. why are all of these people so retarded? joe johnson turns 29 yrs old tomorrow. a 5 yr max deal means we will get him at age 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33. oh dear lord, its allan houston version 2.0.

amare is just not that good. these guys are 2nd and 3rd bananas. if joe wants to sign for 10 mil/yr and amare the max and their plan is to go to lebron and say "we have joe johnson and amare signed with enough room for you leftover at the max" maybe that is what they are thinking. if the summer ends and the knicks have maxed out joe johnson and amare that is it. i will renounce my ultimateknicks membership and start watching english premier league.

And you know with our luck, Amare Stoudemire becomes Antonio McDyess 2.0 and we are right back to 2002. LOL

Amare hasn't miss a game do to knee probs since the micro operation 2 seasons ago, dice was coming to the knicks right off the same operation..After the 2nd operation, he wasn't as explosive, but he never complained about pain, or had to miss time because of it.

martin wrote:

BigSm00th wrote:OMG if we wasted 2 seasons, jordan hill, the 2011 and 2012 draft picks to clear room and get....JOE JOHNSON and AMARE I just won't know what to do with myself. why are all of these people so retarded? joe johnson turns 29 yrs old tomorrow. a 5 yr max deal means we will get him at age 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33. oh dear lord, its allan houston version 2.0.

amare is just not that good. these guys are 2nd and 3rd bananas. if joe wants to sign for 10 mil/yr and amare the max and their plan is to go to lebron and say "we have joe johnson and amare signed with enough room for you leftover at the max" maybe that is what they are thinking. if the summer ends and the knicks have maxed out joe johnson and amare that is it. i will renounce my ultimateknicks membership and start watching english premier league.

you wouldn't trade Jordan Hill, Jefferies, 2011 swap and 2012 for Amare?

Not when 2011 & 2012 could end up being very good picks, and with JJ and Amare, we'd still have a bunch of holes with our roster

How could you even sell that to the fans--he basically told atlanta fans to FO.

CrushAlot wrote:Johnson sat out some of the games at the end of the regular season. I believe he had achilles tendonitis. I would think that this would still be a concern.

it was a strained vagina.

On the bright side, he can recuperate with Eddy Curry.

Knixkik wrote:Locking up JJ right away still makes the most sense. It's a nice pitch to Lebron and teaming up with JJ and Gallo creates a modern day Jordan-Pippen-Kukoc combo. If the knicks fail, either sign Amare or Rudy Gay. It also can be said that getting 2 star wings and moving Gallo to the PF creates the best roster balance for MDA's offense and defense. They can play 4 out and have 1 defensive big inside, such such Tyson Chandler or OK4. If we can trade Curry and Chandler for OK4 and Collison, i'm pretty intrigued by a line-up like this

C OK4, Barron, Jordan
PF Gallo, veteran big (Kurt Thomas?)
SF James or Gay, Walker, Fields
SG Johnson, Rautins
PG Collinson, Douglas

So you trade Curry for Okafor and Darren Collinson, effectively putting the Knicks over the cap for the next 5 yrs. That team never makes the ECF guaranteed. Awful.