martin wrote:

iSergio wrote:I really don't like spending $3M a season on an unknown like this guy. That's Lottery Pick salary. I think it would have been much better to just re-sign Earl Barron or sign a cheap veteran like Steven Hunter or Tony Battie. For $3M, this Timofey Mozgov better be a rotation player. I also find it hard to believe Mike D'Antoni will even play him when he never played Darko Milicic or Chris Wilcox. Seems like a waste of money to me. : /

Spending $3M on a athletic 7 footer is how you go from good to great if you get lucky with that player. Russian's buyout was $2.4M so that's why the high figure.

Wilcox and Darko kinda sucky for MDA examples. Wilcox just played the same minutes on Detroit and they want to cut him after his first year or a 2 year deal. Darko? Has he done anything in this league?

CrushAlot wrote:

martin wrote:

iSergio wrote:I really don't like spending $3M a season on an unknown like this guy. That's Lottery Pick salary. I think it would have been much better to just re-sign Earl Barron or sign a cheap veteran like Steven Hunter or Tony Battie. For $3M, this Timofey Mozgov better be a rotation player. I also find it hard to believe Mike D'Antoni will even play him when he never played Darko Milicic or Chris Wilcox. Seems like a waste of money to me. : /

Spending $3M on a athletic 7 footer is how you go from good to great if you get lucky with that player. Russian's buyout was $2.4M so that's why the high figure.

Wilcox and Darko kinda sucky for MDA examples. Wilcox just played the same minutes on Detroit and they want to cut him after his first year or a 2 year deal. Darko? Has he done anything in this league?

Darko was a good role player before he came to the Knicks and after he left. He wasn't given a chance to play in NY. That might be on him but last year the coach chose to play an undersized line up and also didn't play Hill. The shot blocking and rebounding that Darko provided in Minny was badly needed. The Knicks only one 29 games last year also. The T-wolves were bad but the Knicks were hardly world beaters.

Darko also wanted the offense to run through him. That was the sealer for me.

I never witnessed a more defiant act during pre game than what Darko arrogantly exhibited

Good Riddance

martin wrote:From Newsday: "The contract includes the buyout amount Mozgov has agreed to pay Khimki for his release. With the Knicks cautious about locking into any long-term deals, the second and third years of the contract are not guaranteed."

Done and done.

Excellent. Just what I was waiting to hear.

Earl Barron started right away. If you can play you will play.

In decades of watching basketball I have never seen a player refuse to interact with his teamates on the court EVER. Darko was a team cancer in an advanced stage of development

he had to go

fishmike wrote:Rasho Nesterovich? WTF?

Thats about as intelligent as saying we wasted money on Amare when we should have just signed Reggie Evans. After all, they are both black and American so they are pretty much the same player.

Idiotic

Knicks are stockpiling right now. We are a playoff team with moveable parts.

haha, I had same reaction.

One can't move but had a decent outside shot. The other is athletic and nearly put a hole in the backboard from 15' out cause he shot was so off.

People seem to forget he coached Shaq. Depending upon who you believe he may have asked for him. At the least he's on record for being supportive of the move. Darko acted like a baby and showed no effort to do what MDA wanted. Good riddance!