NY trades

C Nazr M
PF Kurt Thomas
SF Tim Thomas

NY receives

Bonzi Wells
Mike Dickerson
Stromile Swift 5 years 40mm starting at 6.25mm
Jake Sakalidas 2 years 4mm
Troy Bell G

Well I am assuming Dickerson is just there to make the cap numbers work because I think he is going to retire, If I am correct, I am not a fan of bonzi wells at all and I think TT is a better player, I do like swift a lot so that may make taking bonzi back a little more palatable.... I just hate giving up 2 big players and basically getting one back. Jake tskalidas is a bum..

Briggs, its not going to happen. You think you're going to get the better of a trade dealing with Jerry West? Ha.

This trade looks like something Jerry West would sink his teeth into. Kurt Thomas and Nazr give them veteran interior presence and Tim gives them a tall athletic sf. Mike Miller off the bench?

This trade is more likely to be made a year from now when Nazr and TT will have expiring contracts.

I would like to give TT another year anyway, to see Aguirre and the other coaches can help develop his game and heart.

"I'd rather keep our current teamand add Keon Clark and better address our need for a center next summer. I like Stro but not enough to give up our best center, best PF (Sweetney hasn't accomplished enough yet in the NBA to qualify as the best PF), and best SF"

That's a good thought but if Memphis called you and asked to do it RIGHT NOW, would you? If I'm getting Watson (who's an awesome backup PG) I am.

PG: Marbury, Watson, Bell
SG: Houston, Crawford
SF: Wells, Penny, Ariza
PF: Sweetney, JYD
C: Swift, Tsakalidas

You've totally changed the dynamic of your team. They are now a legitimate young team with expiring contracts teams will want. This team might be worse this year, but in the long run you've got to like this team more.

I don't like it....

Stromile in NY would be great but to lose TT and Nazr in this trade is too much.....Stromile is not a center.....

Bonzi isn't gonna fit in NY cuz he's a jerk.....I can see him saying something stupid about the fans or the media and then getting booed out of town.

Right now the Knicks have a decent line-up.....I think JYD and Craw make the Knicks better. At this point....I would rather stick to our guns then trade just to trade....

everyone talks about what a great athlete Swift is and how if given minutes he'll produce.

That's a big risk to think Swift will come through.

He could just as easily become Shandon Anderson- a big time contract that was signed with potential who it turns out can't play starters minutes.

Right now, KT, Nazr & TT are starters on our team- you can't trade them for potentially only 1- Bonzi. Until Swift plays as a starter, you have no real idea what kind of production you will get out of him-

there are variables in the trade that make it appealing including acquiring swift at 24 years old. With a combination of Sweetney and Swift, all we would need to do is compliment the two with another 6-10-+athletic player out of the draft to go along with Jake T and another vet and quickly WE would have a very young athletic power frontcourt with a nice combination of everything. [we couldve used mihm or doleac desperatly as a depth man at C]

Bonzi Wells is a much much better defender than TT and puts up the same numbers both in r+scoring BUT he is the key with his ending contract to get us that high pick where we could swipe an athletic big. I like Ariza as the future of our SF position+ it would be easy to find a solid player with the MLE at SF.


earl Watson gives us a real back up PG, one we dont really have right now--right now the back up is moochie or hardaway and IMHO thats not good enough. watson is up and coming hes a scrapper and plays vicious D.

Posted by VDesai:

I thought Crawford was the primary backup at both guard positions (including PG).

He is and he's good at both positions. Our backcourt doesn't worry me.