With Curry getting doubled and tripled teamed every night a guy like Lewis would be perfect. He has more range than Frye. I'd propose a trade of Frye, Nate, Q-Rich or M. Rose for Lewis.

Knicks 7 main players for next season:

Pg: Marbury
Sg: Crawford
Sf: Lewis, Balkman
Pf: Jefferies, Lee
C: Curry

I think you need to do crawford and frye, nate etc to get it done if it looks like they might lose him, I think we could win the east if that trade goes through.

Eddy needs to drop 20, Lee and Balkman need to be good from 10 feet, Collins needs to work on his outside game, and maybe we take a look at pietrus for the midlevel.

Marbury/Collins
Pietrus/Q
Lewis/Balkman
Lee
Curry

Posted by TMS:

that's not going to get u Lewis by a longshot... i'd have to include Curry or D Lee to have any shot of getting him IMO... he's a 27 yr old player on the rise averaging 22 & 7 as a secondary scoring option on his team... no way will SEA trade him for players that don't have star potential at the very least.

I'm with TMS here regarding Frye. Frye is not good enough right now nor does he show the potential to one day be a bigtime complete NBA big man imo. There is no way Frye can bring back a legit star-level player in his prime. No way. That's why in my own recent recent post I suggested trading him for draft picks. I consider us lucky if we dealt him and got back a 1st rounder in the 20-30 range for this upcoming draft and if we could ever turn that pick into a Morris Almond or a Sean Williams, you know what, we came out ahead. I know it stings to here that (believe me I think we should be able to get a hell of a lot more in return for the 8th overall pick in the 2005 draft myself) but you gotta be realistic. All this stuff about dealing Frye for Ron Artest, Rashard Lewis, Kevin Garnett....please guys, come on now. Remember, this is a deep, deep draft coming up. Acquiring an additional 1st rounder even in the 20-30 range to go with our own pick would be huge - even worth dealing Frye.

Lewis is going to the highest bidder, he's looking for the big payday, so if the Knicks get him they'll have to overpay, while giving up assets in the process. Lewis is good but he's not that good. Seattle either gets back lucrative returns for him or they let him walk to a team like Charlotte, Orlando, Raptors. Seattle will not pay for what I believe will be a high market for him.

Lewis never excited me. I like Balkman at the 3 and Lee at the 4. Curry or Frye is your center. The 1 and 2 position are the ones that we need to work on for the long term.

Let me just add that the knicks do need a scorer with 3pt range, BUT like mark Cuban eluded to yesterday (today in the papers), the knicks don't have to make a huge move. They just need to plug in the right guy to fit with the group and the soul of the team. I don't think rashard is the guy for the knicks.

[Edited by - enyspree on 21-03-2007 3:35 PM]

Let me get this straight how much cap room is out there, I don't see the Bobcats spending 12 million on a player no one really knows about outside of nba fans, they have no revenue down there and would probably opt for vince carter at the 2 because they have wallace....

If the Raptors/Orlando get him, we can thank Isiah for showing us two conference rivals asses for the next 5 years. Thanks Isiah! And if the Bulls get a nice lottery pick thats three teams he improved considerably in 1 1/2 years........

But if the Sonics are going to lose him for nothing I think Frye, Craword, Nate could get the deal done if we include money or our draft pick.

He isn't getting more than 12 million Curry is making 10, Lewis has actually been to the playoffs shoots a high percentage and grabs as many rbs as tits does so why no give him the money.

Marbury
Balkman
Lewis
Lee
Curry


Not a bad start to playoff hopes.


I'd offer QRich/Crawford + Frye + Nate/Pick...

drink guineess.

^ dude shutup we get it.

Tucker is not a shooter, he's a scorer and a slasher, and he's undersized with a low ceiling.

And he's not very gettable considering he'll go lottery.

Posted by highfivesucka:

Alando Tucker! i'm telling you, he's very gettable in the draft for us, and he would help us in a lot of ways. he's got the RIGHT attitude and would fit right in.

but we still need a PG. that's our glaring problem right now. either Mardy needs more minutes, Nate needs to take this off-season to grow up, or we need to trade/draft one (which I thought we did in the first place with Collins but we didnt play him)

Hey start a thread on it! I would but I will let you do the honors.