Whoever said cap space is overrated really need to look at who has been winning the titles all these years. Only the Nets managed to be a good team without cap space and that's because they had one of the best, Rod Thorn.

Whoever said cap space is overrated really need to look at who has been winning the titles all these years. Only the Nets managed to be a good team without cap space and that's because they had one of the best, Rod Thorn.

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Kobe Wanted To Be A Knick?
31st January, 2007 - 10:58 am
New York Times -

When Kobe Bryant was a free agent in 2004, Isiah Thomas and the Knicks flew to Southern California armed with their mid-level exception. Despite being nearly $100 million short of what the Lakers offered, Bryant listened to their offer.

“The reason why I even was interested in taking that meeting was because of this city,” the 28-year-old Bryant said in an interview Tuesday morning. “Because I always loved this city. Always. Ever since I came here, growing up in Philadelphia, there’s always so much energy and so much buzz in this city. How passionate they are about basketball, how knowledgeable they are about basketball.”

Bryant, a nine-time All-Star, excitedly ticked off the names of the Knicks legends Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe and Dave DeBusschere and said, “I just wanted to play here so bad.”

“I know what it’s like to have a team here that’s successful and how the city rallies around it,” he said. “So I was very interested. And if they had more cap flexibility, it’d definitely be a place where I would end up. I might have picked the Knicks.”

I guess they thought Kobe would be stupid and take the mid huh? I would have paid that guy a sever year, 100 million dollar contract, hands down, no questions asked. He would have been worth every penny of it.