Jesus Juice wrote:What I don't get is all these people crying about picks...
The knicks don't ever get the draft right.. we continuely mess that up we are better at scouting
secondly
if we did have to blow it up doesn't melo get more money if we sign and trade? couldn't we just get picks back then?
Nope, that won't work. They changed the CBA to discourage sign-and-trade as a way for superstar players to have their cake and eat it too. Now superstars have to choose between getting more money by staying or leaving in a sign-and-trade and getting no extra money.
Melo can either re-sign with the Knicks and get the 7.5% bird right raises and extra contract year, or he can do a sign-and-trade where he only gets the regular 4.5% raises and no extra bird contract year (or just walk and get the exact same amount of money and years). So basically, there's no reason for him to do a sign-and-trade unless the team he wants to go to has no free cap space to sign him outright.
He does not get more money or extra years from a sign-and-trade than if he just walked and signed with another team outright.
It's not like the old CBA where he can get more money from a sign-and-trade. That's why Dwight Howard didn't even try to do a sign-and-trade to leave the Lakers for the Rockets. Sign-and-trades don't give you extra money anymore. Just walk and get the same amount of money. You only get extra money from bird rights if you stay with the team, not if you do a sign-and-trade.
