Rumors are rumors, so take this with a grain of salt...

this was posted by someone at another knicks msg board

http://www.thesportskiosk.com/tsk%20exlusive/rasheed.html

and add the fact that they just signed McDyess...

hmmmmmmm.

I'll be my life's savings Rasheed's a Piston.

The fact that they signed McDyess means little to nothing to me. He's a backup and they know it. If Rasheed turns down tens of millions and a championship team he's literally insane.

But it's apparent that his wife and kids have a say in this too. If they want to move to Philly or New York, he will consider one of them.

I wrote if he turns down "tens of millions and a championship team".

What championship teams did Payton and Malone turn down? They were (in their minds) JOINING a championship team. Rasheed is leaving a team that decimated the West in the Championship and is staying intact. He's said that he loves Detroit and he likes not being the best player on the team. He has the other Wallace to take tough defensive assignments and the best coach in the world coaching him. He's going to turn all of that down, tens of millions of dollars becuase his wife has friends in the NY area? Come on, let's be serious.

This site is run by a bunch of college kids and an ESPN.com outcast. They have the inside scoop but NOT ONE New York paper does, nor Chad Ford? Come on. Understand the website business, they're just trying to get hits on their webpage. Didn't this site also write Kobe would come for the MLE?

Unless a legit news company reports anything, I'm not going to believe some rinky-dink site like this one.

f Rasheed turns down tens of millions and a championship team he's literally insane.

.....you telling us something the bball world dont know?

i like the idea of ai and sheed balling to a championship, or at least thinking they can...now that's insane!

http://www.freep.com/sports/pistons/pistons13e_20040713.htm

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McDyess takes Pistons' offer

Club to announce multiyear contract with free agent Wallace
July 13, 2004







BY GEORGE SIPPLE and PERRY A. FARRELL
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITERS



Antonio McDyess once tried to give Larry Brown his Olympic gold medal. Maybe he'll give Brown a second NBA championship ring instead.


McDyess agreed Monday to a four-year, $23-million offer from the Pistons, the Free Press has learned. A fifth year would kick in if he played 60 games in the fourth year.


McDyess, once one of the top young power forwards in the NBA, cannot sign a contract until Wednesday, when the NBA lifts its two-week moratorium on free-agent signings and trades.


At that time, the Pistons also will announce the signing of free agent Rasheed Wallace, their starting power forward. A person close to the negotiations said Wallace would agree to a five- or six-year deal that pays $10 million the first year and had a 12.5 percent raise each season. The total value of the contract would be $48 million or $64 million.