http://hoopshype.com/salaries/new_york.htm

2 more seasons and Melo can leave..which I think he will do if we're still playing like this.
3 more seasons and we pretty much have a blank slate to start with.

At that point go after a franchise player if there's one available.
Otherwise sign guys to value contracts, LOSE and hope you draft a stud.

If he's a stud you start winning and can sign a franchise player if he's available.
If he's a bust you lose and get another high draft pick.

I doubt a Dolan owned team can ever be this patient.

We'll probably resign a now past his prime Melo to a 20 year contract and then trade for Joe Johnson. haha. just kidding. right?

NYKBocker wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Shumpert survived the deadline. Now maybe we can blow this team up in the offseason

If Knicks lose in the 1st round then they better blow it up. It is ECF or bust for this team.

gunsnewing wrote:The team i would trade with is minnesota for derrick williams who is tearing it up at PF and their #1 pick and Ridnour but they wont do it for melo

That is why I think Cavs are the only team that would do this. They need a 2nd superstar to go with Irving. Irving also has the pelts that Melo can play with.

gunsnewing wrote:Yea I can see cleveland being more interested in melo than minny. I would do that deal. I love Melo but we can win without him. Or at the very least see good basketball. Amare looks healthy as long as woody doesnt ride him like sec. He sjould be ok for 2yrs

if we can end up facing the hawks or the bucks as a third seed that would almost guarantee a melo-led team could make it to the second round. celtics are going to give the knicks trouble so we have to hope we don't face them.

the question is in that scenario who could we end up facing in the second round? assuming the heat, pacers, and bulls win their first rounds, who do the knicks face? and what are our chances of beating them and achieving the goal of ECF? ugh

knickstorrents wrote:

Melo to LAL; Gasol and Shumpert to Denver; Javale McGee, MWP, Wilson Chandler, Kenneth Faried and a future 1st from LA to NY.

I like this trade the best. We still keep Tyson and it gives us a tough team.

I want firat rd picks. I dont want to go after more castoffs in the offseason. I want our own lebron durant paul

Wouldn't we all! With the patience that ownership has, we would definitely have to get a player of that caliber from the draft if he has a chance of staying. However, we'll most likely get a player that needs some grooming. At that point, do you really think the Knicks are the team to develop that player?

Wow you guys are crazy with these trades. Learn from the ewing trade. You dont trade your star for no reason. Rebuilding is not what its all cracked up to be. Its a lot more fun being a playoff team then a lotto team just ask the kings cavs pistons bobcats hornets raptors etc. Be happy having a good team.

gunsnewing wrote:Trading Ewing was not the problem. Trading him for lazy overpaid vets was. Typical knicks. When you trade an aging star like ewing you trade him for draft picks and young players. But we all know what the knicks think of draft picks especially during the layden thomas walsh yrs

Draft picks aren't what they are cracked up to be. Only 1 team in recent years, the Spurs, has won a title build around their own picks.

gunsnewing wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Trading Ewing was not the problem. Trading him for lazy overpaid vets was. Typical knicks. When you trade an aging star like ewing you trade him for draft picks and young players. But we all know what the knicks think of draft picks especially during the layden thomas walsh yrs

Draft picks aren't what they are cracked up to be. Only 1 team in recent years, the Spurs, has won a title build around their own picks.

Yea but you a trading a 37yr old Ewing you get whatever you can get. Better draft picks and youth than vin baker and travis knight

In that case, absolutely right, but not for Melo. Can't get back good value for him. People overrate draft picks like crazy.

gunsnewing wrote:Right but i would take derrick williams and minnys pick

A deal like that would be one of the better out there but i don't do it for the simple fact that i don't think either turns out to be half the player Melo is. If things go terribly wrong, you still don't trade Melo, unless it's a no-brainer for another proven star in a bad situation.

NYKBocker wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:What is trading Shumpert going to do. This team needs a shake up at the core. Can't believe Melo and Amare were laughing it up on the bench down 30+

I want multiple 1st Rd picks

I feel bad for Shump. I want to trade him just because I think it will be better for his career.

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