Wizards badly want out from under that contract.

Do I think he's worth his contract? No.

Do I think the Knicks have a chance to get him in trade if they wanted to get him? Yes

Do I think he's a great player? I think he's a pretty good player, not a true franchise player for a contender nor even a "Market Max" player.

He's the mostly likely "star" the Knicks will get, if at all.

Somehow I keep seeing DeMarcus Cousins ending up a Knick.

A complication is rumors are a lot of useful vets will take the minimum to go to the Warriors. If the Warriors want them.

No one with options wants to play with LeBron James. The constant media ****ting on Bosh and Love and Irving has simply soured people on him. Many people also despise Rich Paul. He's like a real life version of that midget creep "Eric" from Entourage.

I think one of the things we can do to help facilitate this, is to target Khris Middleton in free agency. I've been pretty conservative when it comes to signing big-ticketed free agents but without Middleton, I think that Bucks team would implode and increase Giannis' frustrations with the team. If they do decide to offer him the max, however, they will handicap their finances and have no other tools left to improve their team before Giannis becomes a free agency. Either eventuality would be a win-win for us and our positioning for the Giannis sweepstakes.

TripleThreat wrote:John Wall

Wizards badly want out from under that contract.

Do I think he's worth his contract? No.

Do I think the Knicks have a chance to get him in trade if they wanted to get him? Yes

Do I think he's a great player? I think he's a pretty good player, not a true franchise player for a contender nor even a "Market Max" player.

He's the mostly likely "star" the Knicks will get, if at all.

Somehow I keep seeing DeMarcus Cousins ending up a Knick.

A complication is rumors are a lot of useful vets will take the minimum to go to the Warriors. If the Warriors want them.

No one with options wants to play with LeBron James. The constant media ****ting on Bosh and Love and Irving has simply soured people on him. Many people also despise Rich Paul. He's like a real life version of that midget creep "Eric" from Entourage.

Anthony Davis isn't one of them...

https://www.si.com/nba/2018/09/23/anthony-davis-klutch-sports-rich-paul-pelicans

Neither do Ben Simmons and John Wall...Your biased toward LeBron and his team is transparent. You write chapters on how much despise him and his team and nike for that matter...The idea that nobody wants to play with LeBron isn't true either.

Nalod wrote:https://nypost.com/2018/10/11/the-smoke-behind-kevin-durants-early-exit-rumors/

Not sure how much there is to all this. Writers love to do the "his agent is from".....as if that matters?
Durants father is a knicks fan. No, Durants father is likely a "Fan of who my son plays for!" THink his manager goes "hey Kev, you know I love the knicks, why not make me happy?" Kevin gonna do what he gonna do for the reasons he wants to, not to please others. not to say he is a bad guy or anything.
Nalod goes to buy a new car, My wife says she likes White. She drives a white car. I like Blue. Im gonna get what I want. I made her happy buying her a white car.
Now I sound like Triple!!! "MY succubus money grubbing wife who don't have sex with me is wanting a new car and has the nerve to tell me which pigment of paint she wants on the outside! Phuch that, she gonna have sex with me, have me buy the car, then go to a club and sleep with the Nike Rep, then drive her skank ass home and use my credit car to gas up and get some fresh coffee! Not even going to bring me any fresh ground brew driving that car!"
Back on point, Whats with this "Kevin wants his own team" stuff. Whats with that? He is paid 31mm a year, full boat of endorsements and what does he need his "own" team gonna do for him? He joined a championship club and Steph was the face of the franchise. Is he or other players that petty? They don't get money for jersey sales. What perk's is Durant missing? He had his own team in OKC. He left it because winning is cool. Money is cool. San fran is better than OKC any day. Players don't care about new arena's, they don't own them. They play 41 games there. Its not the focal point of their lives. Practice facility is more important.
Kevin don't like his locker? Steph got his own Urinal? Durant can't use it? What am I Missing?

PS: I'd love to see a healthy KP and Durant on the floor!!!

my guess is he reads comments from clyde and many others and deep down he knows it’s true.

franco12 wrote:The only thing we can control is building our team the right way without overpaying for talent like Noah, Lee & Hardway.

Keep drafting, keep trying to rehabilitate young players (Mudiay, Burke, Hezonja), keep developing players to fit roles.

Keep flexible, and if in the future a meeting with KD happens and he's interested, hopefully we can sell him on our vision and what we are doing.

I can see LeBron making a big impact on the Lakers - and I wouldn't be surprised to see them finish near the top of their division.

Maybe KD sees LeBron take a lottery team into respectability, and looks East to the biggest stage in the NBA.

But LeBron has done that for the last 9 years. Lebron has moved his family to Cali for a host of reasons many I think are not basketball related. Maybe he felt his place is history is ok and now in his mid thirties its about still playing, but now about other things. In LA he will still be a big deal, but there are lots of big personalities in LA.
San Fran is not OKC but In NYC he'd still be a big deal given his basketball skills but he might want other things in life as a more rounded person in the last third of his career. The arts, Music, finance, fashion, etc is all here and even more than in SF. If he has three rings his career is complete. If Lebron wants to grow his entertainment company Los Angeles is the place for him to be. Not Akron. Maybe this is about KD the person, not the player but it all is attractive. After while its not about ego, awards or money. That is there and he will still make a ton playing where ever.