Posted by Killa4luv:

Posted by djsunyc:

we talked about this before. someone said there's a new CBA rule that a player can't be traded back to the same team for a full year. also, i don't think a player can be waived then re-sign with the team they were originally traded from for at least 30 days (the gary payton rule).

it makes sense basketball wise but even if we're legally able to do it, i don't know if we should as it may upset david stern and the nba as it looks like we were trying to circumvent the system on the eddy curry deal.

But not really, AD and TT make the roughly same money, it seems the deal could have been done with out them.

we had to include the big contracts so we could up the money we gave curry and still fall into the 125% rule. if it was just sweetney + jermaine + picks, we couldn't start curry at the dollar value we did.

sweets $$$'s + jermaine $$$'s = approximately $4.5 mil.
125% of 4.5 mil is $5.6 so that's all we could've offered eddy.
but since tim and ad were involved, that increases the pot tremendously...thus increasing the 125% value, thus giving curry a bigger starting dollar contract.

BTW, the curry deal is based heavily on incentives. he has to meet certain game criteria for each year to kick in at the team's discretion. the bulls actually offered him more GUARANTEED money than we did...all the more reason why we should thank isiah and craw for making curry want to come to ny.


[Edited by - djsunyc on 11-23-2005 09:57 AM]

Posted by Nalod:

I think one of our big guys gets traded for a point or a SF, but not gazy. I agree he is what we need, but lets find one that plays defense.

Should just kept KVH, but thats an old old story. Funny, we could use Spree-KVH-Gazy each at this time!

Posted by fishmike:

Send them Antonio back.

We need a 3, they need another big. Both are expiring contracts. AD is only clogging up the rotation for Frye and Lee who have proved they can produce. Add to it that the team is better when those guys are on the floor, and worse w/ AD on it.

Also we have ZERO obligations to Fugazy. When he sucks sit him. We still have the expiring deal if needed at the deadline, and if we dont make a move we can let the $$ come off the books and just move on.

Look we all know he sucks but he can shoot and he's got size. God forbid he might even play hard being in the last year of his deal.

Worst case? It frees up about 25-30 minutes a night for Frye, Lee and Butler in the rotation.
Best case? He gives us 25 minutes a night, scores some in bunches and helps us win some games.