i just dont see us moving him without a serious sweetener

Going for Lebron is the plan. Its not “retarded”: . When you ahve a chance to get one of the best players to come into the league over the past 20 years you have to go for it..

If Lee really WANTS to sign here he can do it as a Free Agent.. We dont need his Bird rights in order to do it. And retaining those rights — as it stands today — means relinquishing those rights.

If we talk to Lebron and he says I want to play with lee then go get him.. I’d rather the extra space to form the team around what Lebron wants.. not handicap him into having Lee as our starting five when Hill MAY be able to give us 70% of his offensive contribution.

things will come together sooner rather than later and the picture will become clear… It is clearer today than it was even this summer.

If the can’t do that, they might consider negotiating buyouts for both Jeffries and Curry for a few million under the amount owed next year. That would lower the amount against the Knicks cap and allow both players to go to other teams and get new contracts that would make up the difference plus a little bit of a sweetener. Both sides win (especially Curry because he’s not not playing here)

That would give us room for Lee and Max contract. However, IMHO trading Lee over pipe dreams about signing Lebron would be borderline retarded. That would make it at least 50-50 (and perhaps even worse) that the Knicks would not sign Lebron and also lose Lee and set the team back another few years. RETARDED!!!!!

Doing it my way (resigning Lee) makes the the worst case scenario that we go with Lee, Chandler, Gallo, Hill and Douglas for 2010-2011 and sign a very good but not Max Contract player to add to the mix next year (perhaps a SG). That will make us a solid playoff team for 2010. Then after Jeffries and Curry come off the following year, we sign a max contract in 2011 and compete for a championship.

I don’t watch Bosh a lot but the times I have, I am not too impressed with his game.