Howard is 30, declining and about to enter free agency as the cap spikes to around $92 million -- the new estimate lots of teams are using after the league initially projected an $89 million ceiling for next season.

So I think that means the Knicks will have more like $21M in cap space even if DWill and AAA opt in.

crzymdups wrote:

callmened wrote:what this basically means is that this summer (and the next), the knicks will be competing with other teams that ALSO have money. in those situations, the knicks CANT compete - high nyc taxes, dolan, weather etc. However, if we SAVE our money until 2018 when the cap stops rising, then the knicks will be one of the few teams WITH money to spend

Knicks have one of the rising young stars of the league, which is attractive. I think most NBA players want a situation where they can win and look good doing it.

I worry the Triangle is a bigger detractor than any of the factors you mentioned.

But, yes, almost every team will have cap room this summer, which means almost every FA will be wildly overpaid.

yeah you make a great point as well. this fascination with the Triangle Religion turns FAs off

Rookie wrote:That same article projected 108M cap the following year

Yeah, that's been the projection for a while. But $92M is higher than we've ever heard for this coming summer.

callmened wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

callmened wrote:what this basically means is that this summer (and the next), the knicks will be competing with other teams that ALSO have money. in those situations, the knicks CANT compete - high nyc taxes, dolan, weather etc. However, if we SAVE our money until 2018 when the cap stops rising, then the knicks will be one of the few teams WITH money to spend

Knicks have one of the rising young stars of the league, which is attractive. I think most NBA players want a situation where they can win and look good doing it.

I worry the Triangle is a bigger detractor than any of the factors you mentioned.

But, yes, almost every team will have cap room this summer, which means almost every FA will be wildly overpaid.

yeah you make a great point as well. this fascination with the Triangle Religion turns FAs off

crzymdups wrote:

helloharv wrote:IF we trade melo for pieces/draft picks and D Lee expiring contract. I think we would have 37 million to spend this off season = Conley and KD

They'd have to free up around $52M in cap room to offer both KD and Conley max deals.

If AA and D Will don't take options, that may get us close

wh4t wrote:

crzymdups wrote:Speaking of Mike Conley - here's the contract the Knicks will need to offer him. Cue the outrage!

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://twitter.com/TommyBeer/status/699650779767054336

Man, screw that. Conley isn't worth it and will be declining soon.

what are you other options ?

crzymdups wrote:http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14783975/the-nba-trade-deadline-full-big-names-cap-questions

Howard is 30, declining and about to enter free agency as the cap spikes to around $92 million -- the new estimate lots of teams are using after the league initially projected an $89 million ceiling for next season.

So I think that means the Knicks will have more like $21M in cap space even if DWill and AAA opt in.

so what no one is coming here. Its going to be 2 more seasons before this team is any good. We need to tank again next season

callmened wrote:what this basically means is that this summer (and the next), the knicks will be competing with other teams that ALSO have money. in those situations, the knicks CANT compete - high nyc taxes, dolan, weather etc. However, if we SAVE our money until 2018 when the cap stops rising, then the knicks will be one of the few teams WITH money to spend

Yeah, I hear the weather is great in Sacramento. Lots of FA's want to go there, right? The weather? Really?

Max Player: "hey hey, agent man, what's the word?"
Agent: "well, we got Houston, OKC, NYC and SacTown on the line"
Max Player: "no, no NYC! I hear it rains there alot and there's snow sometimes!"
Agent: "dude, we're talking about NYC, you know, largest city in America? And most people with tens of millions pay people to shovel snow, most folks go indoors when it's raining, and there's this thing called "heat" that you turn on..."