BasketballJones wrote:Quick question: If the Knicks and a given player come to an agreement that the player is gonna sign with the Knicks, can the Knicks or the player announce that fact? Or do they have to wait until the eighth?

they can announce it but cant sign the paperwork until the 8th

Moonangie wrote:

loweyecue wrote:PLAN B: Is Wade and Bosh to NY. It ain't over till the fat lady sings.

THat will never happen. Why would Wade give up $30mil when he prefers to stay in Miami and so does Bosh. That isn't any sort of Plan B.

Why hasn't he signed with Miami? Why is he even talking to other teams? Never say never.

This meeting is a waste of time imo. : /

WojYahooNBA
Knicks and Amar'e Stoudemire are making progress on 5 year, max contract, sources say. Framework of deal in place, talks continuing today.
2 minutes ago via web

Adrian Woj is the one NBA beat writer I trust. This could be big for us.

martin wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

WojYahooNBA
Knicks and Amar'e Stoudemire are making progress on 5 year, max contract, sources say. Framework of deal in place, talks continuing today.
2 minutes ago via web

Adrian Woj is the one NBA beat writer I trust. This could be big for us.

AWOj and KBerger are the two that put at the top of my list in terms of respectability at the national level.

yeah, KBerger is good, too. they seem to only go with sources they trust. AWoj basically broke every single trade story at the deadline that was real - including McGrady to the Knicks.

The eight-year Amar'e Stoudemire era in Phoenix is apparently over.

Stoudemire declined a five-year Suns offer that could have been worth up to $96.6 million, prompting the Suns to quickly secure free agent power forward Hakim Warrick with a four-year agreement worth as much as $18 million.

Stoudemire, whose talks with New York and others are accelerating, had told the Suns that he would not sign a deal for fewer than five years after Phoenix offered a four-year maximum deal worth about $80 million. Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver countered Thursday with a five-year offer that fully guaranteed the first three years and had the fourth and fifth years kick in fully guaranteed if he played at least 2,200 minutes in the third or fourth seasons.

Otherwise, 50 percent of the fourth-year's salary was guaranteed and 25 percent of the fifth-year salary was guaranteed.

"It wasn't the right deal," said Stoudemire's agent, Happy Walters. "There were too many caveats for us to be comfortable with it. Amar'e appreciated Robert's and Alvin's (Gentry) willingness to sit down with him. He'll be sad to leave his teammates and the city he loves but it's time to move on."

Getting Amare changes the FA landscape for us.

suddenly the Knicks roster of Douglas, Gallo, Chandler, Walker and Amare would be pretty attractive. You have your 5 time all star frontcourt guy who scores at 55% and some bigtime shooters around him.

loweyecue wrote:Finally something good. Wade apparently Intrigued by NY

yeah right. wade is playing us. he just wasted two hours of the knicks time.

fishmike wrote:these are awesome developments and good quotes from actual humans not named 'sources'

Getting Amare changes the FA landscape for us.

suddenly the Knicks roster of Douglas, Gallo, Chandler, Walker and Amare would be pretty attractive. You have your 5 time all star frontcourt guy who scores at 55% and some bigtime shooters around him.

yeah, getting amar'e would feel like a coup. personality wise i don't love him and i think bosh is more durable. but i think amar'e is the more consistently dominant player.