Posted by simrud:

His value is approaching an all time low. He has failed again and again. With every game he lets the Knicks slide further and further under .500 his value is dropping. Wate more and no team will want to touch him.

Right I beleave we can still get a couple of 1st round picks, a young prospect or two, and package H2Gimpg with him. That is the most we will ever get for Marbury, TRADE HIM NOW!!!

I'm not even going to decide whether I would trade Marbury, and if so, to who. All I am going to say is that even you have to realize that trading him now would be a mistake. You just said his value is at an all time low...why wouldn't you wait til you could get more in return?

Marbury's value will keep fallin as the loosing continues.

If we trade him now, we might still bluff teams into thinking we are just panicking, and Marbury can still be a winning player. They can say, oh, wait, the Knicks did not give him a chance.

In a year or two, when Marbury will continue to lead us to the lottery, nobody will want to touch him. His alue is at an all time low and dropping like a dead fly.

I'm not sayin trade him for nothing either. There a few musts in a Marbury trade:
1)Houston must be included.
2)We must get this year's first round pick.
3)We must receave a future conditinal first round pick.
4)A youn PG prospect must be inluded, aka Devin Harris, etc.
5)1-2 young prospects/pojects with high development potntial must be
invluded as well.
Trade can be expanded to include any player on the Knicks other then Sweetney and Ariza. If Craw is involvoed, the team must improve the trade package by either takin on TT or Penny or giving us a young player/draft picks back.

This entire debate about whether or not to trade Marbury is interesting, but it will never happen. It's very simple: No team will take on his contract, which runs through the 2008-09 season at a monster salary that escalates to over $20 mil per in the final two years. We probably could not even give him away, and we certainly would never get a package that would entice the Knicks to make a deal.

But it's not like we're stuck with a useless, injury-prone, underachieving player (we have some of those, but I won't get into that right now). Marbury is hardly the problem with this incredibly flawed team. I'm not saying he doesn't have a lot of room to still improve at this point in his career, but having him in the fold for the next few seasons isn't so horrible.

In the meantime, we need to pull off a smart trade this offseason, and also try to get under the cap by 2007, when Houston finally is gone. By then, young guys like Ariza, Sweetney, Crawford (hopefully) and whoever we draft in this year's lottery should be much improved, and Marbury will still be OK. We then sign a stud free-agent big man, and we have a very nice team.

If only it were that simple.