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Bleeding Green wrote:It's being reported now that all of the NYK deals include team options after the first year, so I rescind any negative comments about the Knicks. They missed on KD and Kyrie, now they loaded up on flawed players with reasonable upside and didn't ruin their future capspace like the previous front office did with THJ and Noah. Knicks are headed in the right direction, just need to convince NBA stars it's worth having James Dolan as your owner, which is a big ask.

Basically they have Gibson, Ellington and Portis under control for two years, but also as expiring pieces to be traded near the trade deadline to competing teams. Eliington and Gibson are prime candidates to be highly sought-after players come the trade deadline. Really good stuff from the Knicks, they could easily get a couple extra first round picks out if these guys, and if the Knicks do one thing well it's draft well, especially outside the lottery.

BostonCouchGM wrote:

Bleeding Green wrote:Wow they really struck out and then locked up kind of crappy players. I figured they'd potentially strike out, but then mitigate the damage by not signing guys to stupid contracts. If only they just signed vets to 1 year deals and left open their roster to accept trades for stars/sign FA next year. RIP. All that tanking and all those good moves by Mills for nothing. Kind of shows how much the owner matters in the NBA. If the Nets and Knicks swapped owners, would it be crazy to assume that Kyrie/KD/DJ sign in NYK instead of in Brooklyn?

It's a very solid 10 seed team, maybe they'll get lucky in the lottery next year and end up with Wiseman.

awful take. They already had young developing players at 4 out of 5 positions:

PG: DSJ, Ntilikina
SG: Barrett
SF: Knox
C: Mitchell Robinson

they just added 24 y/o PF/C Randle: 21-8-3 34% from three and 23 y/o PF Portis 14-9 39% from three. And they did it by signing them to responsible contracts.

Do people not realize young players take time to develop and gel? No, they don't. Because these geniuses are laughably writing off 19 y/o Knox as we speak. You know, the guy who shot 34% from three and is met with scorn? Meanwhile wOndErBoy Doncic shot 32% from three, was top 10 in turnovers and easily one of the worst wing defenders in the league and he's "generational".

Knicks are finally doing things right and casuals are lambasting them for it.

jmr07019 wrote:Couch GM hates on everything the Celtics do and now is praising the knicks who gave away porzingis to sign Portis and Randle. Gotta be a troll account

Upperclass wrote:With this news I would be offering Kyrie straight up for KP RIGHT NOW. He fits the rest of the youth and can be your go to player immediately next season.

Rozier
Brown
Tatum
KP
Horford
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Hayward
Smart
Morris

That's balance.. AND you likely keep your draft picks.. I'm all in.

The potential issue is that you may be rebuilding a direct rival in NYK with Kyrie and possibly KD coming if Kyrie is there..