Pau Gasol To Receive Interest From Knicks In Free Agency

[10acious]

This just in: Knicks pursuing Trevor Ariza, Derek Fisher and Andrew Bynum.

Next: Kobe Bryant.

What, no Luke Walton or Adam Morrison?

[Knicks Universe]

one thing is for certain...he's done with the lakers

Not quite, gasol loves living in LA. I could see him signing an inflated one year deal with the lakers if they strike out with the 2014 nba free agent class. The odds increase if D'antoni gets canned. Lakers may offer gasol 15-20M on a one year deal so they will have cap space to go after kevin love or lamarcus aldridge in 2015.

Doubt it. Gasol hates how the Lakers and Kobe have been treating him and I guarantee he will take less money somewhere else just to stay away from them.

[Knicks Universe]

No way in the world Gasol signs for 3 million anywhere.

Knicks need to stop thinking they can trade D leaguers for stars and thinking they can sign stars for peanuts.

Who said anything about a trade? This is a free agent signing. You don't TRADE anyone away to sign a free agent unless it is a sign and trade deal, which is not the case here.

Also Gasol is looking for a way out of LAL but still stay in a big market/contender, so he will take less money to do it. That's why this offer with the Knicks makes sense. Many veteran players who are worth much more take less money like this late in their careers to try to stay on winning teams / go for the championship. The only other team I think that has legit competition with the Knicks and Phil Jackson is Memphis. He may sign there for cheap to try to help his bro win a championship, as others have mentioned. Other than that this contract is reasonable given his current goals and age.

[jizzme]

one thing is for certain...he's done with the lakers

Not quite, gasol loves living in LA. I could see him signing an inflated one year deal with the lakers if they strike out with the 2014 nba free agent class. The odds increase if D'antoni gets canned. Lakers may offer gasol 15-20M on a one year deal so they will have cap space to go after kevin love or lamarcus aldridge in 2015.

Doubt it. Gasol hates how the Lakers and Kobe have been treating him and I guarantee he will take less money somewhere else just to stay away from them.

what will you give us if he takes more money elsewhere?

[jizzme]

No way in the world Gasol signs for 3 million anywhere.

Knicks need to stop thinking they can trade D leaguers for stars and thinking they can sign stars for peanuts.

Who said anything about a trade? This is a free agent signing. You don't TRADE anyone away to sign a free agent unless it is a sign and trade deal, which is not the case here.

Also Gasol is looking for a way out of LAL but still stay in a big market/contender, so he will take less money to do it. That's why this offer with the Knicks makes sense. Many veteran players who are worth much more take less money like this late in their careers to try to stay on winning teams / go for the championship. The only other team I think that has legit competition with the Knicks and Phil Jackson is Memphis. He may sign there for cheap to try to help his bro win a championship, as others have mentioned. Other than that this contract is reasonable given his current goals and age.

many many many teams have traded away players in order to open a roster spot to sign a free agent without doing a sign and trade

[Knicks Universe]

Not quite, gasol loves living in LA. I could see him signing an inflated one year deal with the lakers if they strike out with the 2014 nba free agent class. The odds increase if D'antoni gets canned. Lakers may offer gasol 15-20M on a one year deal so they will have cap space to go after kevin love or lamarcus aldridge in 2015.

Doubt it. Gasol hates how the Lakers and Kobe have been treating him and I guarantee he will take less money somewhere else just to stay away from them.

what will you give us if he takes more money elsewhere?

Give you? What?

[Knicks Universe]

No way in the world Gasol signs for 3 million anywhere.

Knicks need to stop thinking they can trade D leaguers for stars and thinking they can sign stars for peanuts.

Who said anything about a trade? This is a free agent signing. You don't TRADE anyone away to sign a free agent unless it is a sign and trade deal, which is not the case here.

Also Gasol is looking for a way out of LAL but still stay in a big market/contender, so he will take less money to do it. That's why this offer with the Knicks makes sense. Many veteran players who are worth much more take less money like this late in their careers to try to stay on winning teams / go for the championship. The only other team I think that has legit competition with the Knicks and Phil Jackson is Memphis. He may sign there for cheap to try to help his bro win a championship, as others have mentioned. Other than that this contract is reasonable given his current goals and age.

many many many teams have traded away players in order to open a roster spot to sign a free agent without doing a sign and trade

Yes that's different. That's a trade made to make the free agent signing. The other poster seemed to believe that signing a free agent is a trade, which it is not.

[Brovva Blaqq]

one thing is for certain...he's done with the lakers

dat's fo'sho

[cyrusdm]

Gasol is looking for a way out of LAL but still stay in a big market/contender, so he will take less money to do it. That's why this offer with the Knicks makes sense.

The Knicks a contender?

Only thing the Knicks contend for is 8th seed.

[Knicks Universe]

Gasol is looking for a way out of LAL but still stay in a big market/contender, so he will take less money to do it. That's why this offer with the Knicks makes sense.

The Knicks a contender?

Only thing the Knicks contend for is 8th seed.

I'm not talking about this year I'm talking about the next few years.

[LaRance]

Gasol can still get $10 + Million dollar contracts. why in the world would he sign with knicks for 3.2. cause phil Jackson is there? lol ya right

[DwnShft2Xcelr8]

I'm not going to do the math (because I suck at it), but if I'm to believe all the talk about living in NY, I believe $3 million is almost nothing there for an athlete after taxes and considering Pau will likely have to buy an exclusive suite in the upper end of a NY borough. I just can't imagine dude would play for such little money when he'd make possibly $10m elsewhere.
I can't believe a poor piece of **** like me is talking about millions of dollars like it's no big deal.

[nikster]

No way in the world Gasol signs for 3 million anywhere.

Knicks need to stop thinking they can trade D leaguers for stars and thinking they can sign stars for peanuts.

Who said anything about a trade? This is a free agent signing. You don't TRADE anyone away to sign a free agent unless it is a sign and trade deal, which is not the case here.

Also Gasol is looking for a way out of LAL but still stay in a big market/contender, so he will take less money to do it. That's why this offer with the Knicks makes sense. Many veteran players who are worth much more take less money like this late in their careers to try to stay on winning teams / go for the championship. The only other team I think that has legit competition with the Knicks and Phil Jackson is Memphis. He may sign there for cheap to try to help his bro win a championship, as others have mentioned. Other than that this contract is reasonable given his current goals and age.

Gasol wants to play with a contender...so signing with a team that didnt make the playoffs makes complete sense

[JazzMatt13]

Am I the only one sensing a trend.

Phil Jackson is planning to do what he did, with players he used 5 years ago.