I guess i should say labron/wade arent coming here (both miami and cleveland have setup for pretty good 2010 offseasons imo). probably get someone like joe johnson/amare or something.

also sucks not having a 2010 pick.

also apparently our toney douglas pick we gave up a 2011 2nd rounder. (thought we just gave up cash)

Eddy Curry on track with weightloss and offseason training. donnie walsh ordering him to vegas to practice with team. maybe get him looking good so we can dump him


reports say toney douglas could backup duhon at point. has looked good so far in practice.

jordan hill could/will play center in the knicks system

i think andre miller would be a good signing... once they get some good players in the years to come he could be a backup

what's good with rubio?

david lee/nate robinson trades?

-Nate is likely to take the QO with the Knicks for ~$2.9mil.

-Lee and Walsh are still far apart in terms of money. Lee probably wants close to $10mil, which the Knicks can't afford if they want to go after some big names in 2010.

-There's Buzz about the Knicks being interested in Boozer. In all reality though, it's not gonna happen.

-Curry hasn't impressed during offseason workouts, even though he lost 30 pounds since May. By the way, 15 lbs of that weight he lost was from ****. Literally.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basket...,5231492.story

For the first five days of the program, Curry was limited to fresh-squeezed juices and broths while he went through a cycle of a colon-cleansing product. He lost 15 pounds from that alone.

Nate reportedly got a 2 year, $10mil offer from Greece.

http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archiv...r_1_year_deal/

Tony Douglas is looking good so far in tonight's summer league game

LeBron won't be signing a contract extension with Cleveland until at least next summer. He wants to explore free agency first.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4383960

"I signed a contract in 2006 with an option," he said. "It would make no sense for me to sign that contract if I didn't keep my options open. I'll let you fill in the blanks."

2011-2021 10-time NBA champion NY Knicks. Lock it up.

Meh, not like anyone expected him to sign an extension now anyway...

some cleveland homers actually had me a little worried he might stay, especially after his attempted recruiting of artest

Cleveland is the favorite to get him but there are going to be a ton of great free agents and we need two of the best. In order for that to happen he has to figure out a way to move Jeffries or Curry. He's done the right thing with Nate and Lee and is pwning them into having to take a one-year deal. If they get Sessions and Lee they'll at least be watchable until next year but they're going to be one of the worst teams in the league.

I think Darko will obviously have a career year in the D'Antoni system, so that should be fun.

Good news guys, we're close to getting Troy Hudson and Eddy Curry is losing massive weight and now only weighs 318 pounds.

darko should be good, i look forward to him.

i can't see d'antoni playing curry but it would be great for him to average like 18 and 6 for 20 games and then trade him.

i read that orlando magic could be a destination for duhon and apparently we would get there exception or something from their turkoglu trade (something like that)

but it is disappointing to get nate and lee for 1 year when we could've traded them and put us in better shape for 2010

what abouut trading them mid season...

Rubio to NY talks heating up. Is Jordan Hill & Nate Robinson (S&T) enough? Or would we need to throw in Chandler/Lee as well?

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wir...ursuing_rubio/

mehhh i wanna keep lee

So do I, but we might not even need to trade him to get Rubio. Besides, I'd rather have Rubio @ $3 mil/Year than Lee at ~$8mil a year. Gallinari might be able to step up and fill the PF spot this year. Rubio is perfect for Dantoni's system, and will bring a hilarious gimmick related to Rufio from Hook.



RU! BI! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

PG- Rubio
SG- Douglas
SF-Lebron
PF-Gallinari
C- Bosh

I don't really think Minnesota would want David Lee considering they have Kevin Love. They're basically the same player and Love has more upside. Even if they did, giving up Lee for Rubio would be a good move for the Knicks. I say this with David Lee being by far my favorite player in the NBA. The Knicks don't have a player on their team that shouldn't be traded for Rubio.

so the knicks get rubio gallinari and a couple max contract guys... then they just sign a MLE guy every year?

If they don't get rid of Curry or Jeffries, they're still kinda screwed. The cap going down kinda hurt Walsh's plan.

I thought the NBA had a soft cap and that the Knicks were one of the richer teams. They can take a bit of a hit over the cap if they need to get the top free agents right? I mean, they went over the cap to get crappy overpriced veterans, surely they can do the same for LBJ and Bosh right? Or is there something I don't understand about the NBA salary cap?

they can, but the cap is still a pain when you have so many bad contracts. the less money accounted for the better

We're really screwed if Gallinari can't be a primary player on a contender. It seems like all the future talk just automatically assumes he's part of the equation. I like him and think he'll be good, but he played 400 minutes, got hurt twice, and could easily end up being a bust.

You can only go over the cap with exceptions, not with straight free agent signings. We can't go over the cap with Lebron/Bosh/Dwade/etc. signings.

Exceptions include:

Larry bird exceptions- Veterans who have played for your team for 2 years can go over the cap. I believe Duhon, DLee, and Nate would all fall into this category in 2010 if we choose to re-sign them.

Mid level exception- Every team gets a $5-6 mil exception every year.

Bi-annual exception- Every other year, teams get ~$2 mil. All teams will get this exception in 2010.

Rookie exception- You can go over the cap to sign a 1st round pick to their first contract.

Minimum salary- You can go over to cap to re-sign a player to the league minimum. This is usually used to fill out the roster with 11th and 12th men.

Here's a good article that show how much room we'll probably have next summer: http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wir..._have_in_2010/

In other news, Nate gets arrested for driving with a suspended license.
http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archiv...ic_infraction/

The Knicks seem like the only team interested in Sessions.
http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archiv..._for_sessions/

Wiki explains it pretty perfectly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Sal..._vs._Hard_Caps

ty guyz.