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.gradyandrew wrote:http://www.basketballinsiders.com/new-york-knicks-team-salary/
Basketball insiders has a great page on the Knicks salary, draft picks and cap holds.
A few things stood out.
Most of our young talent has cheap deals running until 2018-19.
We have a bunch of extra second rounders in the next three seasons (5 total)
Knicks will owe Anthony, Noah, Lee, and Thomas 65 million in 2018-19.
Take the best player available in the draft withthe lottery pick. Pick up one guy who can contribute immediately in the second round and swing for the fences on the extra pick.
I think the biggest issue has been continuity sothe first order of business should be picking up N Dour and Randles contract and extending a qualifying offer to Baker. Renounce Rose.
Call everyone in the league to move Lee, Noah, Thomas, and Melo All of those guys should have some value to the right team. Our aim should be expirings and young guys or draft picks. Don'tpick up any long term salary. We'll want to sign guys in 2018-19, the year before kp and willy hit free agency.
I'm not saying we should tank next season, but getting another lottery pick wouldn't be the worst thing.
gradyandrew wrote:But until we unload those 4 contracts, we're limited in the amount of players we can attract. priority one this summer should be getting cap space.
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H20Knick wrote:We've said in another thread, the time to get free agents is this year and next year. You have to do it by summer 2018. That gives you two summers to work with. After that, you're staring down the barrel of matching KP's max offer. You want to be loaded by then so that you're already over the cap when that time comes. We can be over the cap and resign KP/Willy. We can't be over the cap because we signed KP and then try to go get bigtime players. You have to strike right now. Which means you need to gamble on young talent with a tolerable floor and a really high ceiling.
Geolink wrote:Must be nice to sit out for months from your job, still earn millions in guaranteed money, and fucking a nice model girlfriend at a tropical beach...
Geolink wrote:I think I'll vomit if I see N'Dour in a Knicks uniform next year.
I hate his fucking guts.. Yes, I'm still mad about winning that last game. Same goes to Holliday to a lesser extent. With his inconsistent self.
gradyandrew wrote:
Funny. Can't hate on the players for trying to win it. In the western conference Ndour is a center, but there's no way to play him there with kp, willy, Noah, Koq in front of him.
Geolink wrote:Must be nice to sit out for months from your job, still earn millions in guaranteed money, and fucking a nice model girlfriend at a tropical beach...
n8 the gr8 wrote:So I guess my counter is that
1. flexibility is important, it allows you to take BPA in lottery scenarios more often and you can better fill holes in free agency when you turn it up and decide it's time to win now
2. I really want to get high lottery picks the next couple years; is signing borderline-max guys that are going to have the team win 5-10 more games the next couple of years a smart decision? You've got to answer it on a case-by-case basis, the dropoff in talent that a few games make when it's time to draft can be huge.
What you say is a valid strategy but there are reasons not to do it, you've got to be ready to pass on a talented young free agent when you're rebuilding though even if they look nice.
H20Knick wrote:
Excellent points as usual N8. I have to agree with you. I, too, want to see us keep losing next year. A top 5 pick next year means more to me than any FA we could get this summer, and unlike a lot of people on this board, I think we have the suck to make it happen. We just need to trade Melo for young prospects and picks and let Rose walk.
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