physician said the knicks should have known that dyess was prone to break his knee cap because that happens with many athletes after they reconstruct their knees=knicks got and gave damaged goods while losing the 7th pick in the draft.

p.s. why do u think no other team wanted dyess(they knew his knee was messed up)the nets didnt even want to give up van horn for dyess because they knew he was damaged

awww people just stop it. i saw how he injured it. i had a similar knee injury. its from bone hitting bone. its a fracture (a crack in his bone). its from him landing straight on it. Dyess needed to strenthen the knee. he wasnt damaged it a problem that corrects itself over time. McDyess knee was sound, its odd injury to describe. if he took a few more weeks off that injury would be impossible to happen again. over time it become less likely you do that type of injury. its an injury that you can land on it a million times unless u hit it at the right angle its not going to hurt or get injured. so stop it about McDyess was damaged, it just takes time he needed to take it slow.

Yup...what he said.../\

Posted by BRIGGS:

Why do people think we traded camby and jackson for dice. the real trade was dice for the 7th pick--the 7 th pick couldve been amare stoudemire and my bet is amaere will put up 14 and 7 this year in limited minutes and will be a 20-10 guy by the time hes 21. Right now some people dont understand that this draft night trade was an incredible financial bust for the NY Knicks a bust in every sense of the word. There is no guarantee dice will ever play 1 minute for the Knicks and hes going to cost them 25mm in salary+ lost revenues because we are going to have a shtty team its a royal flush bust. there is no counter to the point its another layden bust whther it was a forced trade from the owner or not its a BUST a financial disaster.

Or Dyess takes another season to recouperate, comes back, puts up strong #s for us, and we get a good draft pick out of it - its not like this team was going to the finals anyway. You want to see a team get to the playoffs and go nowhere because it only has 3 talented players? I would rather make sure our future star is good to go, and get some better talent out of it then see this team continue to defend its "kings of mediocrity" title.

Posted by BRIGGS:

Why do people think we traded camby and jackson for dice. the real trade was dice for the 7th pick--the 7 th pick couldve been amare stoudemire and my bet is amaere will put up 14 and 7 this year in limited minutes and will be a 20-10 guy by the time hes 21. Right now some people dont understand that this draft night trade was an incredible financial bust for the NY Knicks a bust in every sense of the word. There is no guarantee dice will ever play 1 minute for the Knicks and hes going to cost them 25mm in salary+ lost revenues because we are going to have a shtty team its a royal flush bust. there is no counter to the point its another layden bust whther it was a forced trade from the owner or not its a BUST a financial disaster.

There you go again with that Amare crap. Admit it. You're Amare, or his girlfriend. Which one is it?

[Edited by - nwny on 10/16/2002 21:35:40]

No Arguement here... Regardless I still believe it was a solid trade. We're not in bad a shape as everyone is making this out to be. The only thing that would really screw us over BIG TIME is if Layden starts trading away our expiring contracts for lengthy ones... Then we would really really be in the hole for a long time... We need to ride this wave out. I say let's suck it up.. enjoy what we can from what we have and let these contracts expire. This coming summer we will have allot of tradable pieces with Ward, and a few other having only one year left. Let's keep these Bozos!!! We need some cap relief bad... I'm sick of trading exiring contracts for lengthy ones that don't reap us any real positive results in the long run.