[BasketBalAllanParticipant]

I was thinking today about the Knicks and what they did with their team to make them more appealing to a really big free agent, aka Lebron, and I realized that every other team has something that they do not have in this free agency race, something that is valuable other than just cap space.

The Nets have a good draft pick in Favors, a really great young center in Lopez, a former all-star in Harris, and even though they cannot sign 2 max free agents, those players more than make up for that (at least when healthy). They did a great job in hiring a good coach for their team and have a new optimistic owner, as well as a close friend of Lebron supporting them.

Miami: They have the ability to sign another star to play with James, just like NY, but unlike NY if Miami moves Beasley they can sign another max free agent. To go along with that, they have Wade it seems in their back pocket. Imagine getting the option to play with Wade and another great player in a very desirable destination.

Clippers: Great talent at both the four and five positions, as well as good players at all others, iffy owner ship that is definitely a dark horse, but who knows…

Bulls: Rose, Noah, Bosh in a great city that is very proud of its basketball history, sounds to me like Lebron is listening.

[MagikKnickParticipant]

Hiring Isaiah Thomas.

[PlatypusParticipant]

Knicks only have Danillo Gallinari as talent that would be great with Bron

[brennenrundParticipant]

Traded all their draft picks away or wasting them on players like Renaldo Balkman.

Taking on players like
-Penny Hardaway
-Stephon Marbury
-Steve Francis
-Eddy Curry
-Jerome James
-Jared Jeffries
-Mike Sweetney
-Antonio Davis

If the Knicks had made some good personal moves and assembled a good young team with a few key pieces they would deffinately be able to land one of the top free agents.

[Charlie SheenParticipant]

New York should take that cap room look at a few times turn it up side ways and stick it up their candy a$$e$, If You SMELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LaLaLaLaLaLa what the Rock is cookin’

But really here’s what they should do

Save the cap room and start over I mean over completely. Hire Kevin Prichard he can build a winner. fore D’Antoni and hire Mark Jackson he knows New York let him gain expirience and build through the draft with young guys be the Portland of the East minus the injuries start with a dominate point, scoring machine wing and beast inside like( Marquis Teague, Harrison Barnes and Perry Jones) target those 3 young pieces look to win later because as long as Kobe is runing things you wont win now

The next few drafts their is some good talent coming out. New York needs thier own PG not some one elses they cant try and be like the Yankees and Mets and buy players through FA baseball has no salary cap so money is always there. so if I’m the owner of the Knicks heres what I would do.

Follow these teams.
Portland
Oklahoma City
Sacremento
Milwaukee

Get draft picks and build my own team that way to re-sign your guys you can go over the CAP and keep a tradition there target these guys
Harrison Barnes
Perry Jones
Kemba Walker
Marquis Teague
Brandon Knight
Michael Gilchrist
Terrence Jones
Josh Selby

instead of
Joe Johnson
Carlos Boozer
Rudy Gay

dont over pay these guys when those young guys can do the same for less and grow together

[dahoodrecruiterParticipant]

omg is sweetney even in the league anymore??? poor knicks smh

[joecheck88Participant]

the problem is houston can swap picks this year and have their first round pick in 2012. they really put all their marbles in this free agent class. if this fails the knicks wont be relevant until 2015. and all this talk that the nba needs the knicks to be relevant is crazy. fans follow great players. so lebron, kobe, wade are the keys to the nba not any 1 city(except when boston meets la in the finals).

[joecheck88Participant]

the problem is houston can swap picks this year and have their first round pick in 2012. they really put all their marbles in this free agent class. if this fails the knicks wont be relevant until 2015. and all this talk that the nba needs the knicks to be relevant is crazy. fans follow great players. so lebron, kobe, wade are the keys to the nba not any 1 city(except when boston meets la in the finals).

[blackflash234Participant]

Passing on a potential superstar in Brandon Jennings. Also relying on themselves to pry Minnosota of trading Rubio to them.

[HotSnotParticipant]

Don’t sleep on Bill Walker for the Knicks. He is likely going to start next season at SG or SF or be a 30 minute a night sixth man. He has spent the summer putting himself in incredible shape (he lost over 20 pounds) and the man can fill a stat sheet when healthy. Gallo, Chandler and Walker are nice pieces to work with. I would rather have those 3 players then Beasley (salaries 3 to 1 roughly match up) as it currently stands. If Curry isn’t traded this season he will come off the cap next season and give the knicks another 11 mil to work with in next years free agency which should help them obtain another quality player. Curry also met with Lebron last month (same agent?) and I would have to imagine Curry ends up seeing some floor time this season. If Curry gets in respectable shape he is hardly a dud but the dude is just fat and lazy most of the time. Lebron would motivate Curry like no tomorrow. Its an interesting experiment to see if that would workout for the knicks. God knows Curry owes it to them.

The first round picks don’t matter too much (unless they are lottery picks) because there is always a team selling picks for cash every draft. If the knicks really want a player in the draft (20th and on atleast, like Dal did this year and Denver did last year) they will be able to get him.

I think the knicks intentionally drafted 2 players they knew had zero chance of making their roster (which is just stupid) for cap reasons. Cap holds on second rounders are actually higher then minimum roster holds if I’m not mistaken. They probably saved themselves about another 900k to a mil to use in Free Agency this offseason.

[knicksfreakParticipant]

The Knicks should have rebuilt right. The McGrady deal to free up capspace was a terrible move.

If we didnt make that trade then we could have some trading chips for a player like Bayless, Rubio, or A. Randolph.

We lost Jordan Hill who can be a solid PF.

We should have made a trade like OKC did with Miami. OKC took Bledsoe at 18 and traded him to the clips. Bledsoe could have been a very good pickup for the Knicks.

We also should have moved up in the second round to draft Hassan Whiteside.

Passing on Ebanks and Lawal at 38 and 39 was also a huge mistake. I can see the Knicks not wanting to take on a player with baggage like Lance after the Marbury fiasco but we had a terrible draft. Ebanks is an athletic wing who can play D and get hustle points. Lawal can step right in as a solid role playing PF.

We have to retain Lee, Barron, and Walker.

This could have been our roster:

C- Whiteside/Jordan/Curry
PF- Lee/Hill/Lawal
SF- Chandler/Ebanks
SG- Gallinari/Walker
PG- Bledsoe/Douglas

Its not a great team but it has alot of young talent.

Much rather prefer that team over the Knicks as they are now with Stoudemire and Johnson.

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