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cuyankees wrote:

QBoro KnicksFan wrote:

cuyankees wrote:THJ n Noah will require 1st rd pick each to unload, they’re 2 of the worst contracts in the NBA.

THJr is overpaid but one of the worst contracts in the league? C'mon man

Deng, Parsons , Dieng (Minny), Evan Turner, Whiteside, Ibaka, both Johnsons down in Mia (Tyler and James), Ryan Anderson, Brandon Knight, Allan Crabbe, Kent Bazemore

[Wiggins is debatable but as of rn Id consider his deal worse than Timmy's and (as of now) Id consider Hardaway Jr to be flat out better than Wiggins as a player]

All are worse than Hardaway's deal. And those are just dudes off the top of my head, im sure I could name a few more if I gave it some more thought

Should’ve separated the comments, Noah being 1 of the worst and THJ being top 15–20 worst contract. There happy?!
Haaa

GONYK wrote:

3toheadmelo wrote:

K-DOT wrote:The issue is how much are you willing to pay for him? And will his contract block us from being able to open up a max spot in the future?

Y'all know I don't really like Burke, but if he plays good all of next year, no reason not to keep him around, I just don't want him to be what keeps us from being able to go after AD or Giannis in a couple years

i have no clue. it really depends on how he plays this season. I also don’t really look into our salary cap and stuff like that anymore so you asking the wrong person lol. but I say we should try to keep him at all costs if he has something like a 20 ppg/10 assists type season imo. we also have his bird rights so that’s good

What does this mean?

Would you MAX out Burke or shift Kyrie money towards him?

2010 wrote:

HEZI wrote:I see people are paranoid about giving money to these guys because of their "mileage" but what superstars are we realistically going to get that will come with low mileage, young age and are going to be injury proof? No matter who we use the money on there is going to be a risk involved, one way or another. There is no playing it safe. Even the Celtics signed 30 year old Al Horford to a huge deal that people made fun of back when it happened and now it looks like one of the best bargain deals in the league meanwhile the 27 year old they signed a year later came over with a clean bill of health, no injuries and ends up breaking his foot in the first game of the season and costs them 31 million dollars last year for 5 minutes of play all year.

All the free agents need to go through a physical exam and if they pass then the rest is out of our control, que sera sera. Our young players can go down with injuries too just like Porzingis has so there is no fail proof plan no matter what direction we go.

My only thing is we should hold on to our assets and future draft picks and not give them up in trades but as far as outright signing free agents like Kyrie and Butler we should be all over it if it's possible but at this moment it doesn't seem realistic because we just don't have the cap space to sign both so we would be better off just keeping our assets and seeing who we can sign outright. If Kyrie wants to come by himself then that's cool, if not then that's cool too, if we strike out in 2019 then wait until 2020 or 2021 but just be aware that when we do wait, we're basically gonna have to sign another 28 year old with mileage. There is no young stud in his early 20s to be had via free agency so the same risk will have to be made sooner or later.

I hear what you saying but all 28 year olds aren't created equal. Again, look at Jimmy Butler year-to-year mpg avg and compare it to a guy like Klay Thompson. The career mpg is similar but the year-to-year mpg avg tells the complete story. Butler is a riskier contract to hand out at max dollars. Especially when every star player coach Thibs has touched has flamed out prematurely due to injuries.

I'd down with signing KD, Kyrie, Klay, Kawhi to the max. Butler and Kemba not so much.

DLTGWH wrote:Jimmy butler about to turn 29, not 35. Beggars can’t be choosers and knicks are definitely in the beggars row. Is jimmy my #1 one choice this offseason, no... but if it’s between him or no one, gimme JB on a max all day every day.

Frank
Jimmy
Knox
KP
Mitch

THard - 6th man

That’s Length and D for days with decent scoring too

HEZI wrote:

2010 wrote:

HEZI wrote:I see people are paranoid about giving money to these guys because of their "mileage" but what superstars are we realistically going to get that will come with low mileage, young age and are going to be injury proof? No matter who we use the money on there is going to be a risk involved, one way or another. There is no playing it safe. Even the Celtics signed 30 year old Al Horford to a huge deal that people made fun of back when it happened and now it looks like one of the best bargain deals in the league meanwhile the 27 year old they signed a year later came over with a clean bill of health, no injuries and ends up breaking his foot in the first game of the season and costs them 31 million dollars last year for 5 minutes of play all year.

All the free agents need to go through a physical exam and if they pass then the rest is out of our control, que sera sera. Our young players can go down with injuries too just like Porzingis has so there is no fail proof plan no matter what direction we go.

My only thing is we should hold on to our assets and future draft picks and not give them up in trades but as far as outright signing free agents like Kyrie and Butler we should be all over it if it's possible but at this moment it doesn't seem realistic because we just don't have the cap space to sign both so we would be better off just keeping our assets and seeing who we can sign outright. If Kyrie wants to come by himself then that's cool, if not then that's cool too, if we strike out in 2019 then wait until 2020 or 2021 but just be aware that when we do wait, we're basically gonna have to sign another 28 year old with mileage. There is no young stud in his early 20s to be had via free agency so the same risk will have to be made sooner or later.

I hear what you saying but all 28 year olds aren't created equal. Again, look at Jimmy Butler year-to-year mpg avg and compare it to a guy like Klay Thompson. The career mpg is similar but the year-to-year mpg avg tells the complete story. Butler is a riskier contract to hand out at max dollars. Especially when every star player coach Thibs has touched has flamed out prematurely due to injuries.

I'd down with signing KD, Kyrie, Klay, Kawhi to the max. Butler and Kemba not so much.

It's not really fair to compare other players to the Warriors in this situation because the Warriors are just so used to blitzing teams by the end of the 3rd quarter that they can afford to rest guys. When you look at other star players throughout the league, Butler is no different really

Giannis
AD
Lillard
Beal

If those are the guys we are looking at in 2020/2021 then their minutes should be a concern too then, no? They will all be at least 27+ years old in the next 2-3 years and their MPG are basically the same as Butler at 36/37 MPG

This is also why I don't want to strip the roster down, having depth is so important, you can preserve your star players and play them less minutes if you have dependable depth.

Clyde_Style wrote:

HEZI wrote:

2010 wrote:
I hear what you saying but all 28 year olds aren't created equal. Again, look at Jimmy Butler year-to-year mpg avg and compare it to a guy like Klay Thompson. The career mpg is similar but the year-to-year mpg avg tells the complete story. Butler is a riskier contract to hand out at max dollars. Especially when every star player coach Thibs has touched has flamed out prematurely due to injuries.

I'd down with signing KD, Kyrie, Klay, Kawhi to the max. Butler and Kemba not so much.

It's not really fair to compare other players to the Warriors in this situation because the Warriors are just so used to blitzing teams by the end of the 3rd quarter that they can afford to rest guys. When you look at other star players throughout the league, Butler is no different really

Giannis
AD
Lillard
Beal

If those are the guys we are looking at in 2020/2021 then their minutes should be a concern too then, no? They will all be at least 27+ years old in the next 2-3 years and their MPG are basically the same as Butler at 36/37 MPG

This is also why I don't want to strip the roster down, having depth is so important, you can preserve your star players and play them less minutes if you have dependable depth.

You know what's fair to compare to re: GS?

They built a championship team without signing one free agent max cat. KD joined them later so is irrelevant.

HEZI wrote:

Clyde_Style wrote:

HEZI wrote:
It's not really fair to compare other players to the Warriors in this situation because the Warriors are just so used to blitzing teams by the end of the 3rd quarter that they can afford to rest guys. When you look at other star players throughout the league, Butler is no different really

Giannis
AD
Lillard
Beal

If those are the guys we are looking at in 2020/2021 then their minutes should be a concern too then, no? They will all be at least 27+ years old in the next 2-3 years and their MPG are basically the same as Butler at 36/37 MPG

This is also why I don't want to strip the roster down, having depth is so important, you can preserve your star players and play them less minutes if you have dependable depth.

You know what's fair to compare to re: GS?

They built a championship team without signing one free agent max cat. KD joined them later so is irrelevant.

What's your point? I've been saying don't trade the core pieces and future draft picks because I want us to build a nucleus through the draft. Adding a free agent or two that could help take us over the top should still be an option

KP
Knox
Frank
Mitchell
2019 Pick

That's the homegrown nucleus

You're saying that if we added a superstar on a max deal to that core that it would somehow be a bad thing?

NYKnicksTAPE wrote:

DLTGWH wrote:Jimmy butler about to turn 29, not 35. Beggars can’t be choosers and knicks are definitely in the beggars row. Is jimmy my #1 one choice this offseason, no... but if it’s between him or no one, gimme JB on a max all day every day.

Frank
Jimmy
Knox
KP
Mitch

THard - 6th man

That’s Length and D for days with decent scoring too

I only want Butler if he’s coming in addition to another star

just Jimmy by himself is meh...not that exciting

Adelheid wrote:Amare v2.0

Knicks would never learn their lesson.

Imagine one or both of Ky and Jimmy got signed as Knicks and got injured...they would be occupying large portion of cap so we are hamstrung again for the upteenth time.

Jeff Van Gully wrote:

NYKnicksTAPE wrote:

DLTGWH wrote:Jimmy butler about to turn 29, not 35. Beggars can’t be choosers and knicks are definitely in the beggars row. Is jimmy my #1 one choice this offseason, no... but if it’s between him or no one, gimme JB on a max all day every day.

Frank
Jimmy
Knox
KP
Mitch

THard - 6th man

That’s Length and D for days with decent scoring too

I only want Butler if he’s coming in addition to another star

just Jimmy by himself is meh...not that exciting

jimmy butler alone is not worth it to me.

kd, kawhi, and kyrie are the only players i'd consider using this cap space on solo. in that order. only because of kyrie's extensive injury history despite his relative youth.

BowlRips wrote:

cgmw wrote:Fans are going to act all gangster about holding out for a bigger star or waiting for next year, but this has Steve Mills deadline trade written all over it.

I’m okay with w deadline trade depending on what the trade is.
If you can move Noah in the deal even if it costs you a first rounder it may make sense


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HarthorneWingo wrote:

Adelheid wrote:Amare v2.0

Knicks would never learn their lesson.

Imagine one or both of Ky and Jimmy got signed as Knicks and got injured...they would be occupying large portion of cap so we are hamstrung again for the upteenth time.

Amare' wants to make a comeback.