October 03, 01:54 PM EDT

NEW YORK, October 3, 2012 – New York Knickerbockers Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations and General Manager Glen Grunwald announced today that the team has signed free agent forward/center Rasheed Wallace to a contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Wallace, 6-11, 230-pounds, holds career averages of 14.6 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.33 blocks over 33.0 minutes in 1,088 games (956 starts) over 15 seasons with Washington, Portland, Atlanta, Detroit and Boston. He is a four-time NBA All Star (2000, 2001, 2006, 2008), who won an NBA Championship with Detroit in 2004, alongside then-assistant coach Mike Woodson.

He last played for Boston in 2009-10, averaging 9.0 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists over 22.5 minutes in 79 regular season games (13 starts) and 6.1 points and 3.0 rebounds over 17.1 minutes in 24 postseason games (one start). He was originally selected by Washington in the first round (fourth

Here we go.

misterearl wrote:11. We now have five men who are 6'10 or taller.

You cannot teach height.

One thing that the ehat lacks is height and toughness inside. we may have age but those guys we have are still tough and good defenders inside

What does Nalod think?

Who freaking cares, if he can contribute fine. I didn't like the guy in college or his manners on the court. I respect his talent. If he still has it thats great, if not we'll cut him loose. I would suspect its going to be lots of pulls and tears on our bench.

Would have preffered a guy like Blatch who in the right circumstances surrounded by vets raises his game.

But if Rashweed can do the job and help the team win he can win me over.

KNicks getting old fast!

If you cannot man up enough to handle a thread title, maybe you would feel safer watching TeleTubbies.

Blatche missed his first N.B.A. training camp in 2005 after being shot in the chest during an attempted carjacking. In 2007, he was charged with soliciting a prostitute, who turned out to be an undercover police officer. A year later, he was arrested on a charge of speeding and was cited (for the third time) for driving with a suspended license. Blatche earned further infamy last year for hosting a party known as Lap Dance Tuesday at a Miami club.

Blatche was so out of shape last season that the Wizards at one point shut him down and publicly listed the reason as “conditioning.”

“A lot of mistakes,” he said of his Washington tenure. “But I was a young guy. And not to make no excuses for myself, I did a lot of things. And I also didn’t do a lot of things. But I was punished for the things I did and I learned from it, and I’m moving on.”

“A wake-up call,” Blatche called it. “The job of my life, the job I love doing, can be taken from me in an instant, a blink of my eyes. To see what happened to me, to see that I have another chance, I don’t want that to happen again.”

(Avery) Johnson is not looking back, either. “No concern whatsoever,” he said of Blatche’s missteps in Washington. He added, “It’s a clean slate.” - Howard Beck

We shall see.

I don't think he is going to be able to give you more than 10 quality NBA minutes a night though.

AnubisADL wrote:I posted a video of him at a pro-am over the summer. Dude still has hops.

I don't think he is going to be able to give you more than 10 quality NBA minutes a night though.

“(Coach Woodson) told me his ideas and his plans and I just wanted to see if I could fit in somewhere. If Coach needs me for two minutes, then I’m out there for those two minutes going hard. If it’s 10 or 15 minutes, then I’m going hard for whatever certain amount of minutes he has me there for."

Kurt Thomas - 6
Rasheed Wallace - 6
Marcus Camby - 6
Ty Chandler - 2
Amare - 0