knicks1248 wrote:Opportunity like melo, I dont need NY for that..Look mr mills, none of your players are on my timeline, and quite frankly your roster is a mess. How are you going to upgrade the roster once you pay me 90% of your cap.
You want me to sit around here and mentor your 19 yr olds in the prime of my career, is that what your proposing?
Like Melo putting phil in a bind, you can't go to a star in his prime and tell him to join a 3 yr rebuild..maybe if this roster was playing like the Lakers last yr, but we are not even close.
Lakers did not have an 22 year old 7'3 allstar last year. We don't this year.
Lakers did not have perhaps a top 3 draft picks. We do.
You equate KD to Melo?
KD has 2 and maybe 3 rings. He is not coming to join a winning team. If he comes, and lord knows I am no in anyway knowledgeable nor putting myself in his shoes but from what I read in part he joined warriors not just to win or the money, but to experience SF and the silicon valley environment and learn much about the tech business. New York, and that would include Brooklyn BTW offers a player the ability to a small fish in a big pond and some amounts of movement without fanfare. Also unrivaled culture and exposure to financial, Fashion and other business all in one of the few hubs of the world we call NYC.
So its not about just Mills or Frank, its about Life.
On the court the east is very much open with no team dominant. Philly, Toronto and Boston are very good but still not established. Knicks with a tricore of Barrett/Zion, KP and KD represents an opportunity.
Its not ready made. That's why Knicks1248 can't see it. Before free agency the draft will have already taken place and the timeline on KP and where he is will be known.
If Durant is all about looking at the first half of the season and makes up his mind in the here and now as Knicks1248 suggests (He thinks KD and others think like him) then yes he will not even consider the knicks. But players and Agents do think ahead. Fiz and Perry will lay out a presentation and a vision which KD and his people will determine as viable or not.