PG: Lin
SG: ???, JR, Douglas
SF: Melo, Fields
PF: Stat, Novak, Jeffries
C: Chandler, Harrellson, Gadzuric, Jordan
that is essentially the current knicks depth chart. given the NBA settlement, Lin and Novak will both be back. from what i've read in the Post, JR will come back to get full bird right's next season. iman, injured in may and out 6-8 months, is out at least until january or february, if not longer.
regardless, we are in desperate need of a backup point guard and perimeter athletes. if JR leaves, that is the case even more so. we have almost the entire salary cap currently committed to two forwards and a center.
bibby could return as a backup to lin, but we should really look to get younger. even if we took bibby, we'd need another backup PG for insurance. that argentinian PG who plays in spain pablo prigoni was mentioned as a possible target in the Post.
would ray felton come back here for the mini mid level? i'd take him back in a heartbeat to backup Lin.
perimeter athletes who would potentially come for mini mid level or vet minimum: CJ miles, gerald green, shannon brown, deshawn stevenson.
finding someone in summer league is also a possibility, especially a perimeter athlete. those guys seem like a dime a dozen and shouldn't be that hard to fill.
this is still a highly flawed roster, but being able to bring back lin and Novak really helps. if we can (A) sign one of the above FAs and (B) strike gold two years in a row with a diamond in the rough (like lin and novak last year, fields sort of the year before), we will be in pretty good shape.