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Are we about to get knicked? 

Post#1 » by buzzkilloton » Wed Nov 4, 2020 7:26 am

Sounds like Knicks are looking to go after Wood. I have a feeling they drive the price up.

As we get closer to free agency, teams monitoring the power forward market believe that Christian Wood remains on the Knicks’ radar.

One team with interest in Wood expects the 25-year-old to be a top target for New York this offseason.

SNY reported in March that some in New York’s front office had been enamored with Wood. The Knicks had been monitoring Wood for much of the season prior to the coronavirus outbreak. Many teams were monitoring Wood ahead of the trade deadline, but New York was one of the few teams watching the Pistons regularly after the deadline -- an indication that the Knicks had a high level of interest in the forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/sources-teams-believe-pf-christian-204818759.html
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Re: Are we about to get knicked? 

Post#2 » by Billl » Wed Nov 4, 2020 1:50 pm

Don't believe anything you read this time of year. The knicks may well toss him an offer, but they aren't going to tell anybody in advance about it.
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Re: Are we about to get knicked? 

Post#3 » by chrbal » Wed Nov 4, 2020 8:38 pm

There is not really a ton of great free agents. Wood is considered like top 5 or something like that for this class. We were always going to have some competition for him. Knicks will always get rumored, especially when the have cap space.

I think the pistons are the most likely. But if we lose him we’re pretty much at the start of a rebuild, it won’t set us back to far.
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Re: Are we about to get knicked? 

Post#4 » by Pharaoh » Wed Nov 4, 2020 10:10 pm

Knicks get linked to every decent free agent whenever they have cap space because - like us - they've failed to build the right and instead hope to skip a few steps.

Hasn't worked out for them and you'd think they'd actually be hoping to land big fish in 2021.

All their moves should be about laying a foundation for that off-season

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Re: Are we about to get knicked? 

Post#5 » by Uncle Mxy » Thu Nov 5, 2020 12:02 pm

Just remind the Knicks of what happened when they Knicked Allan Houston from us. paid him a lot of $. :)

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