1. The David Lee Situation
Donnie Walsh’s first huge decision moving forward will be how he handles the Lee situation. Lee has some trade value, but not as much as originally thought. Any team he gets traded to will have to be attractive enought to make him want to sign there, as Lee has openly stated [...]

From Yahoo Sport Italia…
Q: Danilo, tell us the truth about your height.
A: I’m 6-10 without shoes but doctors say i’m not finished growing…
Q: Did you know, before the draft, you’d have been picked by NY?
A: I had 2-3 possible teams but i’m honest: yes, i knew. They told me that the day before.

Q: How is [...]

Great reporting by Alan Hahn of Newsday as he found out from La Gazzetta dello Sport reporter Massimo Oriani about the status of Danilo Gallinari. Apparently Gallinari is with the Italian national team right now in Bormio, Italy where they are playing in a tournament with Poland and Israel. You can read more about Oriani’s [...]

It appears that some were speculating the worst after Danilo Gallinari was unable to play more then one game last week in Vegas. Alan Hahn had this to report at his blog with respect to Gallinari:
Talked to a few people — scouts, an agent who has several European players and knows Gallinari well (but doesn’t [...]

Yes, he only played one game in the summer league, but we’re curious as to:

Now that the summer league is over, it appears the Knicks will request that Danilo Gallinari sit the remainder of the summer. This includes the European championships that the Italian team is scheduled to participate in. The team believes the struggles in his lone game were more “growing pains” then doubts about his ability to [...]

Alan Hahn reports that the Knicks will shut down Danilo Gallinari for the rest of the summer league. This is a precautionary move based on a sore back and an MRI found no significant damage.
Too bad! I wanted to see more of Gallinari. We will all have to wait for updates from the European championships. [...]

Word out of Las Vegas is that Danilo Gallinari will sit for today’s game against the Spurs due to soreness.

After struggling through the 1st half of his debut, rookie Danilo Gallinari had an impressive offensive 2nd, showing a variety of skills totalling for 14 points on 5-11 shooting.
Here is the breakdown of his impressive 3rd quarter, as well as his highlight through-the-legs pullback in the 4th:
1) Put back follow-up dunk-  ed. note: the dunk [...]

“I’ll tell you and I hope I’m not getting ahead of myself, but he’s really good,” D’Antoni said. “Like today, he just goes over to Herb [Williams] and tells him [a player] hasn’t had a shot the last six times up, call something for him. He automatically knows.
“He’s stronger than I thought,” D’Antoni added. “He’s [...]