Posted by Bonn1997:

Isiah Thomas: Well, when you look at the expiring contracts that we will have this summer, we still have close to $30 million in expiring contracts to go out and play with this summer

Does anyone (Fish?) still think the plan is to let expiring contracts just expire and slightly trim payroll? Look at the Knicks' history of decisions with expiring contracts. Look at Isiah's statement right above.

if you look at what's happening with expiring contracts, that's really how some teams are acquiring talent if you're not under the cap. With Maurice Taylor's third year, it becomes an expiring contract, which becomes a huge asset to us.

He's already thinking about eventually trading Mo Tayler's expiring contract. He's even more forward-thinking about expiring contracts than I am. I'm not crazy about the Houston trade but I see his point that you probably can get more in 2 years for Mo Tayler's expiring contract than you can for Vin and Moochie's this summer. I'm not sure it's worth the 1 year wait, though.

[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 02/24/2005 23:21:39]

Posted by Rich:

But will we ever have the talent to win a championship?

Posted by Rich:

Posted by gunsnewing:

Posted by Rich:

But will we ever have the talent to win a championship?

I don't know ask Detroit. They used expiring contracts to get rasheed and they won a championship.

We have don't Ben Wallace or Rip.

but we might with the expiring contracts of TT & Penny. Then we'll top it off with the expiring contracts of H20/Taylor.

of course Taylor and Rose could be traded before their expiring years in a trade where their contracts are required to make the trade work. Like Taylor or Rose + a future draft pick for a Zach Randolph type.