Posted by Bonn1997:
Posted by JohnWallace44:
Posted by Bonn1997:
Posted by TMS:
Amare Stoudamire (owed 17.7 million in 10/11)unkown not as good as he once was. Has had microfracture surgery which would be a huge risk factor when investing 100mm$
LeBron James (owed 17.2 million in 10/11)not likely to go anywhere but if he does it will be Miami
Dwayne Wade (owed 17.0 million in 10/11)not going anywhere
Chris Bosh (owed 17.1 million in 10/11) 20% chance he leaves--not a big endorsement guy and Toronto can pay him the most by far. If he does leave I would say Dallas first choice
Dirk Nowitzki (owed $21.5 million in 10/11)not going anywhere
BRIGGS, i'd like to know what you're basing all these assumptions on.
& btw, Amare just scored 29 pts. in 21 minutes played the other night & he's all of 26 years old... hardly a player i'd call that's on the downside of his career.
Even if Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Isiah Thomas were all in their primes at the same time and becoming FAs, Briggs would say we're better off keeping Lee
OK, let's say that it's 1990 and Michael, Larry, Magic, and Isiah are going to be free agents. You have to eliminate your whole roster to get one of them on the team. You don't have room to sign two of them. You might have room to sign Jordan and Sam Perkins. You have a choice of building around your young players or scrapping everything for just Jordan in a couple of years. He hasn't won a championship, hasn't developed an outside shot yet... oh and you're not sure that he'll sign with you, another team or reup with the Bulls.
What do you do?
No room to sign two of them?
Eliminate your whole roster?
You're asking questions with no bearing on the current Knicks' team. Worst comes to worst and we get no free agents in 2010, we can always give Jamal and Zach max contracts in 2011 and be right back where we were anyway.
Bonn, what do you mean by that? The idea that we'll have room to sign two players is a myth because the salary cap looks like it's going to go down instead of up at this point. And if we wanted to get even close to having that kind of room, we'd have to clear the whole roster and be left with these players;
Curry
Jeffries
Gallo
Chandler
2009 pick
We will not, I repeat, will not be able to resign anyone once we fill out the salary cap. We can only use the minimum player exceptions, which will allow us to sign the type of players that would otherwise be on the street.
Maybe we can sign Raja Bell and LeBron and make a run with the players above. Maybe we'll pull a crazy talent out of the draft.
I think we should use our financial leverage to get lottery picks and shoot for having a cap friendly roster in 2011 and go after Paul, but that's just me.
Alan Hahn:
Nate Robinson has been on a ridonkulous scoring tear lately (remember when he couldn't hit Jerome James with a Big Mac in early January?)
2/19/2009 10:42 AM