Every game is a "youTube" highlight.

Melo would be a very good 4.

gunsnewing wrote:Perfect world you'd retain Novak, Smith & Davis. Lin & Shump are going nowhere. Explore trading Amare, Fields, Douglas & Walker for a younger PF who doesn't demand the ball and draft picks

perfect world would be no salary cap. I am not sure if Lin will stay. We got 3 big contracts already until 2015. I haven't looked at the figures but I think we are over the cap for next season already. Lin, Novak and Davis are all free agents after this season and I'm sure other teams will offer them good money that Knicks can't afford.

JamesLin wrote:

gunsnewing wrote:Perfect world you'd retain Novak, Smith & Davis. Lin & Shump are going nowhere. Explore trading Amare, Fields, Douglas & Walker for a younger PF who doesn't demand the ball and draft picks

perfect world would be no salary cap. I am not sure if Lin will stay. We got 3 big contracts already until 2015. I haven't looked at the figures but I think we are over the cap for next season already. Lin, Novak and Davis are all free agents after this season and I'm sure other teams will offer them good money that Knicks can't afford.

Davis is not going anywhere as he is still getting over 15Mill next year from the Cavs.
Lin's contract status has been talked about in depth and he is also going nowhere as he cannot be offered anything more than the MLE and we can match as he is restricted.
Novak & Smith are the only real question marks this offseason.

We have Novak's bird rights so we can offer him whatever we want regardless of cap space.
Smith has a player option next year for almost 3Million. He might decide to take the money and run or hang on 1 more year befoer ewe compensate him with Bird rights.

Please stop propagating this absurdity that somehow we are in danger of losing LIN... not in the realm of reality.

nyvector16 wrote:Novak was picked up off waivers, hence his contract from the previous year with the Spurs counts towards the bird rights.

Let me be more specific... We have his "Early Bird rights". Which means we can offer him up to the league average (close to MLE) without restrictions due to cap.

nyvector16 wrote:Novak was picked up off waivers, hence his contract from the previous year with the Spurs counts towards the bird rights.

that's wrong.

If a player is waived and is claimed by another team before he clears waivers, then his Bird clock resets.

source: Larry Coon FAQ

it's going to be very tough to keep Novak, Lin, Baron Davis and JR Smith. in fact, i think we're only in position to keep one out of the four.

nyvector16 wrote:Hey evil.. Thanks for the link. I stand corrected on the transfer of Bird Rights once waived...

But... That only applies to Novak.

Lin is a different Story.... http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7583558/nba-how-new-york-knicks-keep-jeremy-lin
There is no chance we lose LIN....

Baron Davis is still getting paid one more year by the Cavs... so I see no reason we can't keep him if he wants to play for us.
JR Smith... We will probably lose because we cannot keep him unless he picks up his player option for next year.

Thanks for clarifying the details. I'm glad we're not going to lose Lin. Davis might want to retire as a Knicks if we get to semifinals this year and hopefully he will stay. JR Smith, he is playing like a team player so I'm not sure if he's happy here or he's already planning for next year's move like a mercenary? I don't mind if we lose Novak, although he's the Steve Kerr for Knicks.

eViL wrote:

nyvector16 wrote:Hey evil.. Thanks for the link. I stand corrected on the transfer of Bird Rights once waived...

But... That only applies to Novak.

Lin is a different Story.... http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7583558/nba-how-new-york-knicks-keep-jeremy-lin
There is no chance we lose LIN....

Baron Davis is still getting paid one more year by the Cavs... so I see no reason we can't keep him if he wants to play for us.
JR Smith... We will probably lose because we cannot keep him unless he picks up his player option for next year.

no prob.

i think that we keep Lin without a doubt.

i think that Baron might not wanna finish his career as a backup to Lin. but perhaps i'm wrong about that.

i think JR gets a bigger offer elsewhere. but he might entertain picking up his $2.5M option.

i think Novak is the dude we probably lose. he's gonna get more than the minimum. maybe not Kapono money, but he'll take a good chunk of someone's MLE. of course, we will likely have to dip into our MLE to keep Lin.

we'll see how it plays out. very rarely do guys forego more money for the better situation.

Yes, I think Novak's staying will come down to money. We were the first team to give him a shot so he is probably inclined to stay, but money always talks. I think Smith and Baron are gone.