Knixkik wrote:BRIGGS wrote:We should see what we can get for Kanter. We simply have too much $ allocated at 5. Open up the cap space--see if we can get a pick and ending contract
Lee Kanter Noah and Oquinn should all be firmly on the block as of game 25--were not winning crp--were 1-8 on the road and -7 H away for games played.
GS puts cheap C in place and gets great results--so does SA. We cant have 45mm at the C.
You have started a thread for this topic many times. You simply don't trade kanter because the previous president invested big money in noah.
And he's been told many times, the marketplace options for Kanter are pretty much nil.
1) Teams actively rebuilding have no interest in a player like Kanter
2) The same reason the Knicks would like to trade him is the same reason other teams would not want him ( Mirror Test)
3) Teams within the "contention window" will have a difficult time for a salary match that's not a bad contract. The Mirror Test applies again, the same reason X team wants to dump the bad contract is the same reason the Knicks don't want that player themselves
4) Kanter is a defensive liability who can't space the floor. This doesn't help a playoff team
5) Kanter has a player option, killing off the possibility of X team in free agency this offseason
6) Kanter is playing hard to get a new contract given teams are cap locked and many are heading into the tax zone, is he gonna play hard after he gets paid again? Precedent says he will do what he did before, which was stop giving a f**k after he got paid.
7) If a player is available, he's usually AVAILABLE FOR A REASON ( which is why most teams will walk past him)
So a team, Team X, could give up a positive asset for a net negative player who can opt in and kill their offseason, who needs to be benched in critical late game situations
OR
They could see if they can get a low cost expiring type player or a ring chaser who was bought out to give them a little bench help at low cost with no long term commitment
That he even sniffs the edge of an idea that any team would take Noah in a deal is clear proof that he has no actual bearing on the actual NBA marketplace.
OKC tried to trade this guy forever, if the market existed for him to be worth a pick and an expiring, OKC would have moved him LONG AGO, long before he was only useful as a salary match for Melo.
No one else wanted him. Not at his AAV, not as his limitations, not right now. They still won't want him.