Wilson Chandler underwent the knife yet again: sports hernia surgery. Recovery time is 6-to-8 weeks, which now pushes his schedule to July.

Source: http://twitter.com/alanhahn/status/13997006284

WTF? dude stays injured. Another offseason of healing and not working on his game.

nyk4ever wrote:

Childs2Dudley wrote:July is not late at all to work on his game. He has until the beginning of training camp to get better. He can do it. It's up to him if he really wants to though.

while you are right, i do agree with anubis on the fact that chandler has been constantly injured. dude is lookin like mr.glass

It's a concern, sure. But if we sign LeBron, I don't care about the future of Wilson Chandler since he will likely be traded. Hell, he might be traded anyway.

Childs2Dudley wrote:July is not late at all to work on his game. He has until the beginning of training camp to get better. He can do it. It's up to him if he really wants to though.

I doubt he will be able to do physical activities after hernia surgery. So he is going to have to get back into shape too.

BRIGGS wrote:Who exactly is the selling pieces for LBJ?

The ability to play with Bosh. The ability to be on the greatest stage in the greatest city in the world.

We know you're not convinced. But can we all agree no one knows what Bron will do?

BRIGGS wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:Who exactly is the selling pieces for LBJ?

The ability to play with Bosh. The ability to be on the greatest stage in the greatest city in the world.

We know you're not convinced. But can we all agree no one knows what Bron will do?

cry--Id like to get these players too. Weve scked too long. That being said Im a realist down to the bones. If Im Chris Bosh I want the 6 year max--even if its S+T. There is NO F way Im signing for 5 and less money when I can get 6 and 35mm more--especially with the new rules coming. I really never heard him give NY even one positive word--if I remember right it's negative.

Dont you think Miami with beasley + the 18th pick Houston with Hill a couple of other players and multiple fist round picks or Chicago with good young players and 1st round picks are a better s+T option?

Obviously, Chicago and Houston and many other teams can offer a better sign and trade for Bosh. BUT, how does Houston have ANY leverage with Toronto? They don't have the money to sign him outright. There's no way Houston has leverage - the best they could hope for is Bosh tells Toronto - "trade me to Houston or I go to NY..." also, I know he has said he doesn't want to play near his home.

Chicago is in the best position to get one max guy via sign and trade, but they'd have a hard time getting two.

I think the Knicks can actually make a strong case that Bosh can make up the extra money he'd lose out on from Toronto with the extra year in endorsement opportunities in NY. I'm hoping part of their pitch to Bron and Bosh is a sort of complete portfolio pitch. Bron and Bosh's total portfolio would take a huge leap forward in NY to the point where $30M over 6 years is an EASY number to top (and it wouldn't really be that big of a difference - once we have his Bird Rights we can extend him to 6 years and beyond. the true difference in that deal, especially if he opts out after 3 yrs here and extends for 3 more, is probably more like $5-10M - which NY opportunities and endorsements could instantly cover.)

I truly believe the economics are most favorable in NY. I think they can illustrate that example pretty clearly to both Bron and Bosh and show how they'd market them to the city, league and world and how the opportunities for them to export their own brand to the city, country, world get that much easier in NY.

The Economics are in NY's favor with any rational explanation of marketing opportunities and allowing the two max guys to re-sign after 3yrs - the lockout will not be as bad as previously feared because the league has rebounded significantly. The chance to build a unique legacy for a hungry fan base is uniquely and strongly in NY's favor. And, they have the ability that no one else has - to sign two max guys outright. I think those three factors are huge and make NY an appealing destination - provided Bosh and Bron want to play together.

That's the biggest "if" to me. If Bosh and Bron want to play together. Both guys have said so in the past... we wait and see if that's true over the next 7 weeks.

Of course if you read a post by the ultimate homer he's some superstar defender and takes the ball to the hole every chance he gets.

Reality is he's a mediocre defender on a team that has no defenders and he loves to chuck from deep rather than exert any effort to get closer to the rim.

Played a little better this year but this guy has already reached his ceiling and is also our best trade bait to improve our roster. He's also a lesser duplicate player when you see that we have Lee and Gallo who are better players.

Get rid of Wilson Chandler.

Staying to myself until I figure out what my goals are in life... Too many examples of how not 2 b in my life growing up and even now #nolie

from his twitter page http://twitter.com/illwil21

Sounds a lil' down about everything.

This fool is depressed, stupid, and using twitter to talk about it.

Get rid of him. Never liked him anyway and hated the hype some fans placed on him and his mediocre game.

kam77 wrote:I agree with using him as trade bait.

I don't understand the anger against him though.

If he really is suffering from depression, then the vitriol is misplaced.

I'm quite tough on Chandler. Maybe to a fault.

Some of it is born on watching other fans loft him into stardom in their posts.

Yet, beyond of all that, I really do believe in the following:

*He's a dumb player. Unforced errors are his top talent.
*Chronically injured. This guy is ALWAYS hurt in some way.
*Peaked in talent. He will of course get better as he matures but for the most part he has peaked talent wise.
*Duplicate player. If anyone asked you who of the two you keep between Lee,Chandler,Gallo - you answer Lee and Gallo. Then if you were told you could take on Bosh and LeBron? Wow, yeah, Chandler is now 5th wheel.
*Great trade bait. He does have talent. Other teams probably don't know that he has peaked and he can be dumb as dirt at times. So he's a great trade chip for us. Presumably for that elusive PG we want.

BRIGGS wrote:
Do you believe 1/2 the stuff you write?

lol