Paladin55 wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:

Paladin55 wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:It could be Brown's camp, the Knick camp or a reporter just trying to scoop everyone else.

I would tend to think it comes from Brown's people.

I remember we had that Spanish guard from last year who claimed the Knicks were offering him this or that, and the Knicks had to come out and say it was not true.

Brown is just trying to leverage his contract up with the Lakers. He probably knows that LA won't give him $4M/yr, but he will get some good $$ from the Lakers ($3M?) and stay on the team he has won two rings with.

The problem with tht theory is that if they were to say that a "4 million offer has been made" they paint themselves in a corner. If LA comes back and says they aren't interested in him any more and then he signs elsewhere for less then 4 mill then the credibility of the agent comes in to question. Risky move.

Wonder how things went with that Spanish guard from last year- I forgot his name, but I wonder where, and for how much he signed.

I'm not even sure if there is even a 4 million dollar offer on the table- more likely 2 years for about $5M. Hollinger had this tweet a couple of days ago:

Unless Knicks plan on using the Matt Barnes Imaginary Exception, looks like most they can offer Shannon Brown is $2.6 mil in Yr 1.
7:32 AM Jul 31st via web

I have no idea about the Exception thingee, but it seems pretty clear to me that we cannot pay anyone $4M/yr. at this point without a trade, and why would the Lakers, who are looking to get rid of Sasha want to take on someone from the Knicks. I also know that the Knicks would probably not release any actual $$ numbers at this point, so I still have to think that the $4M number comes from Brown or is a misunderstanding by the reporter.

When listening to Hahn it sounded as if the Knicks and Brown's camp had been in discussions for a while but that there was no offer on the table. They might have discussed figures and the reporter may have made a mistake and thought an offer had been made

BRIGGS wrote:When you see time pass like this with no deal--you have to think using NY as bait for LA offer.

As of last Thursday, Alan Hahn said on Knicks Live that we haven't officially made an offer, contrary to what's been reported..We'll see this Thursday night on the next episode of Live if there's anything new to report on Brown or anything else.

EDIT: I defer to Bip who already had this info above.

GTFO Shannon!

Donnie, go get Rudy Fernandez.