2006 NY Knicks C - Dwight Howard / Jackie Butler / Dale Davis
PF - David West / Robert Horry / David Lee
SF - Danny Granger / Matt Harpring (MLE) / Qyntel Woods (LLE)
SG - Rip Hamilton / Raja Bell / Bobby Sura
PG - Chris Paul / Brevin Knight
(1 open roster spot)
- i build the team around Howard, Paul & Granger... goal was to keep cap flexibility going into '08 & '09 seasons when they become restricted FA's, so i can resign both of them to longterm deals
- the veterans either have reasonable contracts, or expiring ones, & ALL are hardworkers who play a solid fundamental style game
- a couple big shot clutch players to go to in crunchtime (Rip & Horry)
- a few fill in players who are low cost, low risk, & potential high upside to round out the roster
TOTAL SALARY for 2006 = $47.78 million (still under the cap & enough cap space to resign my core guys when their rookie contracts expire)
After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.