Kenyon Martin just tweeted that he thinks Lebron will come to New York and play for the Knicks next season. As improbable as it sounds, he's buddies with Fiz and would take New York by storm. His brand would balloon tremendously.

But could he win here?

LBJ
KP
THJR
Oquinn
Frank

With Lee, Burke, Lance, Kornet, Noah, Baker plus our #1

off the bench. I'm assuming we'd want Kanter to go elsewhere to free up some cap space. That's a good team.

https://twitter.com/TikiAndTierney/status/1004450901627719686?s=20

Well Kenyon has had a reputation for being a resounding jackass, which is exactly why he had problems finding a team after only his 2nd contract extension.

But to his point, we'd need $36 million in cap space to even accomodate LeBron (and the cap holds for vacant roster spots). There are hardly any teams in the league with cap space to even facilitate a salary dump and even if there were, it would come at the expense of the few intriguing young players we have on this roster. So what is LeBron coming to play with? Jarrett Jack and Michael Beasley on another veteran minimum contract?

This all goes back to my point last season about why signing THJr and Ron Baker were boneheaded decisions. Neither player would offer much on-court value to ignore the opportunity cost that comes with committing $21 million in cap space to them both. Especially on a rebuilding team without many assets to actually accomplish a rebuild, that money could've been used in so many ways to acquire additional picks and to leverage long-term flexibility. Now, we are solidly in no-man's land: too good to get the type of game-changing talent that are available to teams in the top 5 and too cap-locked to pull a 2010 Miami Heat.

We would have a better chance of finding jimmy hoffa

NardDogNation wrote:Well Kenyon has had a reputation for being a resounding jackass, which is exactly why he had problems finding a team after only his 2nd contract extension.

But to his point, we'd need $36 million in cap space to even accomodate LeBron (and the cap holds for vacant roster spots). There are hardly any teams in the league with cap space to even facilitate a salary dump and even if there were, it would come at the expense of the few intriguing young players we have on this roster. So what is LeBron coming to play with? Jarrett Jack and Michael Beasley on another veteran minimum contract?

This all goes back to my point last season about why signing THJr and Ron Baker were boneheaded decisions. Neither player would offer much on-court value to ignore the opportunity cost that comes with committing $21 million in cap space to them both. Especially on a rebuilding team without many assets to actually accomplish a rebuild, that money could've been used in so many ways to acquire additional picks and to leverage long-term flexibility. Now, we are solidly in no-man's land: too good to get the type of game-changing talent that are available to teams in the top 5 and too cap-locked to pull a 2010 Miami Heat.

Kenyon had problems getting his third contract because he had had micro fracture surgery on both knees during his second contract.

BigDaddyG wrote:

StarksEwing1 wrote:We would have a better chance of finding jimmy hoffa

So there's a chance?

i guess

It also means we would have to guarantee him KPs health which at this point, is a no go. He wants to contend for a championship next year with zero setbacks. He has no timE for waiting for teams to get healthy.