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By: Linkage for Jul 2 10am to Jul 3 10pm - Raptors Republic

Linkage for Jul 2 10am to Jul 3 10pm - Raptors Republic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:01:36 +0000

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By: knicksbro

knicksbro — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:58:06 +0000

Jason Maxiell center? He’s 6′7.

By: Sergio

Sergio — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:53:44 +0000

If I were Detroit, I would have saved my money and went into the FA market next summer. I think wasting $20M in cap room on Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva is a terrible move.

PF: Charlie Villanueva
SF: Tayshaun Prince
C: Jason Maxiell
SG: Rip Hamilton
PG: Rodney Stuckey
6th: Ben Gordon

Ehh.

By: BiggieSmalls

BiggieSmalls — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:02:41 +0000

I was referring to GALLO as the injured player. BUT Wlson DID have surgery to remove bone spurs in his ankle and is currently rehabbing that injury. He may be just off crutches recently.

@ Asst DA.
The Rockets? smoke and mirrors. They will likely be losing Artest and then what do they have without Yao and TMac? Yes they won games without both but you cant deny that there is NO star players on that team without both. Lets see them sustain that over 82 games.

Regarding the young teams. I think a young Free Agent would prefer to go to a situation where there are OTHER young players that are considered the future stars of the league. THe Young FA could grow with them and create something meaningful long term.

Kidd is looking at NYC because his kids are in the area. NO idea what is driving G-Hill and I hope he doesnt come close to our roster.

Clearly the knicks will spend BUT we have Sooo many expirings we HAVETO work within the salary cap. AND once we get UNDER the cap in 2010/11 we can not simply ramp up and double the cap in the next year. It doesnt work that way. This Knicks team will be turning over 90% of the roster in the next 18 months in an ATTEMPT to land one or two BIG free agents.

It is a risky strategy. Looking objectively as a prospective free agent I would much rather position myself on a team with 3 or 4 young upcoming stars than on a team with 8 expiring deals hoping to lure a big free agent in two years.

And Im sure Lee’s agent has told D Lee that EVEN if he signs in NY he can be traded to ANY TEAM in December of the first year of his contract. So the illusion of security in the town of his choice is nonsense. There is no guarantee that if we sign Lee for X mills that we dont trade him in december of the first year to ANY team based on our Needs at that time.

Im not sure Hill was drafted as a Center option. He was insurance against Lee signing elsewhere. A Front court of Lee/Hill would certainly not have much offensive game – from what i’ve seen and read of Hill and what Ive seen of Lee.

We’ll see how it fleshes out but once thing we know for sure is that Lee will NOT be getting 35 plus minutes per game this year so his numbers will more than likely go down.

By: knicksbro

knicksbro — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:58:26 +0000

We should still be looking to trade D lee. We can afford it, and if it means getting a young pg, maybe Rubio, it would be well worth it. Getting Rubio would give us stability at the PG spot, and we wouldn’t have to worry about having a PG for another 15 years. Next year that means we could just focus on Lebron, and not worry about a giant hole in the PG position. Plus, if we get Lebron, which we have enough money to do, we don’t need anybody else. Lebron is more than enough. If we don’t get lebron, we get 2 stars. But, it would suck if we really couldn’t find a PG by next year, and I don’t mean a 36 year old rental. If there is an opportunity, Walsh better be going after it, because there is a small window of opportunity because of the buyout situation, and Rubio’s discontent.

By: joetheknick

joetheknick — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:55:25 +0000

Rubio to NYK. Knicks sign and trade Nate Robinson and package him with Eddy Curry to Minn. We get Rubio and some combination of Minn spare parts like Cardinal, Madsen, Thomas. Minn is an interesting rebuild and Nate and Eddy are young enough to fit there. I see Jefferson as a PF and Love as a SF. Both are playing out of position IMO. I also believe David Lee will remain a Knick. Memphis got Randolph and Memphis is after Milsap. Real happy if my dreams come true. Finally I fully agree that Hill is a rookie and not a replacement for Lee. He should be playing center and help with the defense.

By: knicksbro

knicksbro — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:41:35 +0000

Wilson Chandler is not injured, he’s fine and will play this season. As will Gallinari hopefully.

By: EQ1217

EQ1217 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:38 +0000

Piston fans went from Boozer to Villanueva, that’s pretty disappointing.

Gordon is OK, but when you have RIP and Stuckey already, what’s the point?

By: knicksbro

knicksbro — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:39:28 +0000

Don’t worry. Of course we will get a star if we want. There are so many stars on free agency next year and who wouldn’t want to go to the Knicks? Now that we have Dantoni and Walsh repping us, we actually look like a real professional team. We are rebuilding and the good players want to be in New York when we get good again

By: EQ1217

EQ1217 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:38:53 +0000

Lee to take the QO would be the worst case scenario. He would be free to sign with any team next season like Gordon with the Pistons.

There should only be two options for Donnie

1. S&T him to a team that wants
2. Try to sign him to a reasonable contract (4 yrs 30-32 mil?)

The least amount of teams with cap space this season, puts us in the drivers seat.