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Draft Scenario's

Who is your selection if stay at the 6th pick?

Who are you targeting with our two 2nd Rounders?

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Trade Scenario's

Carmelo Anthony also let's you know in his exit meeting that he is willing to parting ways in the off-season if that is the direction management wants to take, but would like to finish out his career as a Knick. He gives you a list of Los Angeles being his preference, Cleveland, Boston, San Antonio, Golden St. and Washington as the only teams he'd be willing to waive his NTC...

Do you continue to build around him? Or do you move him? Where and for what? If you were to acquire an additional pick in this year's draft, who would you target at that selection?

Do you also consider moving Courntey Lee? O'Quinn? What can you reasonably get for them? Is it better to hold on for now?

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Free Agent Scenario's

Do you consider bringing back Rose on a discounted deal? Or renounce his cap hold and open up potentially $24mil in cap space?

Do you cut into that max cap space by re-signing Justin Holiday? If so, for how much?

With your cap space, what do you plan to do with it? What FA's are you realistically bringing in and for how much? Do you instead use this space as flexibility to take on unwanted contracts as a means of acquiring additional assets? What kind of deal/asset return are we looking at, if that's the direction you choose.

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What does your roster look like heading into the 2017-2018 season? And what is the direction you are taking this franchise in moving forward?

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Obviously, this isn't something set in stone, peoples minds change, especially when reading other peoples ideas and opinions. The idea of this thread was to basically combine our "FA Wishlist" and "Draft wishlist" threads, seeing just where (and how realistic) our board stands heading into an important off-season for Phil and company.

Do you cut into that max cap space by re-signing Justin Holiday? If so, for how much?

Situation 1: Re-sign Rose using bird right, re-sign Holiday using early bird rights and then pursue a free agent with the MID LEVEL EXEMPTION which starts around 8.5 M a year. This gives us the most talent, but not sure if keeping Rose would ever be the right idea. In this scenario we "add" without losing. We keep Rose and Holiday, two of our most athletic and best guards, and then add a MLE level free agent. It does cap us out and fully invests in the team we would move forward with after that.

Situation 2: Let Rose walk, lose his rights, open up 25 or more M in capspace and pursue free agents. We could agree to a deal with Holiday and keep him so long as the deal is within the MLE range as he's still an early bird FA. This is likely the way we go. This allows us some cap flex moving into 2018. I can see Phil do what he did in 2015. One longterm contract for a starter (Like RoLo) and the other contract as 1 year deals. Keep Holiday if the money is right otherwise let him walk.

Situation 3: If Holiday's market value is very high, we can dip into the capspace to keep him over the MLE. This means we have to let Rose walk, and use the 25M (or so) space to keep Holiday at above MLE salary. I do not see us ever doing this, but we could if we wanted.

Another interesting aspect is Melo's possible trade. If Melo is traded could we open some more cap room via a trade? If we trade Melo we have to do it by draft day or July 1. We can not go into free agency without knowing for sure what the team is going to be like the next year. I think the Melo decision comes very soon.

I offer Holiday 3 years at $3m per, and not 1 cent over.

He played a part in helping us win 30 games, but I could find a bum in the NBDL or undrafted that would do the same or better.

Get our pick Louis Labeyrie over for the summer camp, find out if he can stick.

Not a CBB fan, so no idea about picks - but with Labeyrie & 3 picks, that is pretty much it for roster spots.

If I can trade Melo to the Clippers for Crawford & Rivers- I do that and hope I can redirect Crawford.

Your 2017-18 New York Knicks

C-Guillermo Hernangomez/ Noah/ Plumlee
PF-Kristaps Porzingis/ Justin Jackson / ???
SF- Joe Ingles/ Kuz / ???
SG-Courtney Lee/ Ntilkina/ Henzonja
PG-Austin Rivers/ Crawford/ Baker

That team isn't particularly good but that is ok, progress is slow motion and all the key pieces are still a few years from their primes (aka a lot of young teams need time to develop). This team spend the whole year focused on learning the triangle, but also quasi-tanking for a chance to draft Luka Doncic. Basically I think Doncic is looking that good tanking for him should be the goal for next year. Next year though the team gets a reputation as a very good passing team that plays defense.

The best part is the year after they pay KP and Willy (2019) . Noah’s and Ingles’ contracts would all come off the books (2020) allowing the knicks to go after a marquee FA to put next to their young core. Sort of how the warriors got Iggy to put around there core.

Next season starting line up
Probably looks like

KP
Isaac
WH
Ferguson
Rivers

Bench:
Crawford
Baker
O'Quin
Holiday
Kuz
Noah
Sasha

yellowboy90 wrote:Step 1) Phil steps down

Step 2) smile

Step 3) welcome back isiah
step 4 ) suicide hotline

dacash wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:Step 1) Phil steps down

Step 2) smile

Step 3) welcome back isiah
step 4 ) suicide hotline

Step 5 Riot outside MSG
step 6 give up on basketball once I calm down