I'm reading the daily news tonight and I see in bitch lawrence's column that "have a better chance sending malik rose to Seattle. The sonics like rose and are interested"

That's gotta be bull****. Seattle actually likes malik rose? Madness.

Come on fellas I know one of you can figure out a crazy idea that just might work.

fortson for rose straight up works.. plus fortson has 1 less year on his contract. throw in cash and i'm sure they would do it.

Posted by joec32033:

Daily news reports the Knicks want BOTH Evans and Fortson for Malik and maybe Ariza....

i like it, fortsons contract runs out in 06/07 which goes along with gettings under the cap by 07/08. but i know management isnt thinking like that, i just wish they were.

They hate Fortson.

Most teams do after a while.

Danny is considered the "tossed salad man!" of the NBA.

Whos gonna room with him? I wonder how much fun it would be in practice?

"Jerome", guess whos rooming with you? Thats right, Danny's back!

"Jerome", hows the off season program going? Oh, been busy, guess what, Dannys gonna come work with you!

Reggie Evans would be a good fit next to Curry. I don't like Fortson, but Evans is gritty.

If the Knicks make this trade, Larry has become the de facto GM.

Posted by Allanfan20:

nononononononononononononononononononononononononono! You don't trade a young small foward with some promise for 2 undersized PFs who suck at everything besides rebounding. We're already a decent rebounding team and we can improve that from within'. Terrible idea.

We're out rebounding opponents by an average of 3 or so a game.

What is killing us is not being able to defend & holding onto the ball.

And our problem isn't the defense out of the front court, but the perimeter players- how would these players help us?

do the Sonics deal. try and include Murray as well.

Nothing major here but it's another step in the right direction with regard to straightening out our salary cap, provided Zeke acts responsibly and just lets Penny walk off the cap w/o taking on any rediculous long-term deals back in a trade. Malik Rose has 1 more year on his deal than Fortson (Fortson's deal expires at the end of next season) - so now that would be another player that just comes off the cap at the end of next year along with the contracts of Houston, Jalen Rose, Mo Taylor, Jerome Williams and Shandon Anderson. If we can add Fortson to that list, that's a awful lot of money coming off the cap at one time. Plus, Rose and Ariza really provide nothing for us production-wise so shipping both of them outta here is no big deal at all (Rose is at the end of his career and Ariza's game has never really come together). And Evans is still young (DOB: 5/18/80), has a more-than-reasonable contract (owed the rest of $1,100,000 for the rest of this season only) and is a solid rebounder (7.1/game at about 20 mins./game for his career, including 9.3/game in only 23.8 mins./game for the 04-05 season. Not bad for a player who went undrafted.
The only thing that bothers me is that initially Evans & Fortson will take PT away from Frye and Lee - but a case can be made that it'll also make both of those guys work harder than ever, especially in the off-season, and be determined next season to fight for their PT.
Now if we can get Seattle to include one of their 2nd rounders w/o getting too greedy...If not, the deal makes sense as is and I definitely pull the trigger.

Posted by Allanfan20:

nononononononononononononononononononononononononono! You don't trade a young small foward with some promise for 2 undersized PFs who suck at everything besides rebounding. We're already a decent rebounding team and we can improve that from within'. Terrible idea.

i dont know if you noticed or not, but ariza has no future with us.

Posted by crzymdups:

Posted by jaydh:

Posted by Allanfan20:

nononononononononononononononononononononononononono! You don't trade a young small foward with some promise for 2 undersized PFs who suck at everything besides rebounding. We're already a decent rebounding team and we can improve that from within'. Terrible idea.

i dont know if you noticed or not, but ariza has no future with us.

I agree. Right or wrong, Ariza should be on an open court team. And while I feel like this Knicks team should be playing open court basketball, we are grinding it out in the half court every night. Ariza doesn't have any offensive skills for a half court set.

I hate Larry Brown. Thank god Theo got injured or he'd probably be here already.

Larry Brown thinks they should be an open court team also. BUt the morons forget to get back on defense, so no running.