Eddy Curry
06/07 - $8,171,103
07/08 - $8,947,543
08/09 - $9,723,983
09/10 - $10,500,423 (PO)
10/11 - $11,276,863 (PO)

the final two years of curry's deal are player options. if he's healthy, he's going to probably opt out and look for a max deal.

if he's good enough at that time to realistically expect a max contract, it can only mean good things for the NY knicks... good thing is by then Marbury, Francis & Malik's contracts will be coming off the books.

Max implies you do everything well......leave it to Isiah to offer an opt out clause for a player that no team was willing to take a risk on, he is a bin-ness man in every sense of the word

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by MS:

Max implies you do everything well......leave it to Isiah to offer an opt out clause for a player that no team was willing to take a risk on, he is a bin-ness man in every sense of the word

Yeah, seriously, there should be *team options* on those years. I could see us outbidding all other teams by $30 mil like with Houston.

Yep. That's why I kept saying we have no chance of getting under the cap. We have to resign our young players. There's just no other option. This is one of the reasons why many of us said Isiah wasn't building the team right, because he did not take these things into consideration.

i'm sure just about every team faces issues like this in having to re-sign their talented young players to contract extensions... we need to address these issues when they arise, not allow it to prevent you from making moves to acquire these young talented players to begin with.

of course, it does give us all something else to complain about though, so there's at least that positive.

[Edited by - TMS on 01-16-2007 11:46 AM]

Posted by TMS:

i'm sure just about every team faces issues like this in having to re-sign their talented young players to contract extensions... we need to address these issues when they arise, not allow it to prevent you from making moves to acquire these young talented players to begin with.

of course, it does give us all something else to complain about though, so there's at least that positive.

I think you missed the point. If we hadn't acquired the bloated contracts for the last three years, we'd actually have a shot to be under the cap BEFORE Curry, Frye, Lee, Nate, etc... have to be re-upped. That's what I mean by not taking things into consideration. As usual we miss our shot, because the GM thinks if you keep throwing darts at the wall, eventually one will bullseye. Some of us don't consider that a plan.

And some teams keep their young studs (Phoenix, Detroit) and find the cap room to be able to acquire a stud player. Why is that team never us?

Posted by djsunyc:

Posted by TMS:

if he's good enough at that time to realistically expect a max contract, it can only mean good things for the NY knicks... good thing is by then Marbury, Francis & Malik's contracts will be coming off the books.

he got 6 years $60 with a questionable heart issue.
dalemebert got $63.
nene got $60.

with the #'s eddy's putting up now, he WILL get the max, no doubts - no questions - and sadly, no cap.

Putting Eddy's deal in the perspective of Nene's and Dalembert's he looks like a bargain. Nene is terribly overrated, he's never averaged as many rebounds as Curry is right now which is pathetic given that's what he's being paid for, and Dalembert is a rebounder and barely a defender.

Meanwhile, Curry is putting up Yao/Gasol numbers, both guys who get the max.

Yeah, Curry will probably opt out and get the max, but that will be after four years here where hopefully he'll be a relative bargain. And, if I'm not mistaken, the summer of 09 is when we might have some cap space from Marbury and Francis being gone? Maybe Curry can wait until September '09 to renegotiate and not screw up the cap room before then? I'm not sure how that works, but it seems like players sign extensions in September all the time.

I think the way the deal is structured, we should still have cap room in 2009 - unless we have to give Lee and Frye big extensions before then, in which case we're screwed, cap-wise, at least.

Posted by djsunyc:

Posted by TMS:

if he's good enough at that time to realistically expect a max contract, it can only mean good things for the NY knicks... good thing is by then Marbury, Francis & Malik's contracts will be coming off the books.

he got 6 years $60 with a questionable heart issue.
dalemebert got $63.
nene got $60.

with the #'s eddy's putting up now, he WILL get the max, no doubts - no questions - and sadly, no cap.

I thought curry was 6 years for 56 mill.

The title of the thread should be after 4 years not 2 years

If Curry gets the MAX then it means he will have done something right and we probably have a very good team.

And if he's on this very reasonable contract NOW, you guys are finding a way not to credit the GM for that but to punish him instead.

First you hated the signing because there were too many years on it for too much loot.
Now you guys wish he was locked up longer term.
too funny.