NoDopeOnSundays wrote:BKlutch wrote:NoDopeOnSundays wrote:
Westbrook expires next year.
Before or after the team expires? How much more shyt can we stand? When Russ expires, the other contracts will be closer to expiring, and easier to trade, if they're even still here.
We really need to see if the FO can do something good before the trade deadline this year. There has been an incredible amount of speculation but we haven't seen anything concrete.
The fanbase can be sold on Westbrook for a year if it means younger guys play. Our fanbase is smart enough to understand the difference in contract years, and as long as it's sold as getting out of Fournier / Randle deal we'd be fine, it's not like the fanbase is going to riot.
Randle's extension hasn't even kicked in yet, he's gonna be on that deal till 2026. If you're going to move him it has to be now.
Russ is a veteran, even though our evaluation of him is that he's not an old player, he's old shyt.
The team can't really say, "Come here because we can get you off our books, we think you're just old excrement." So they have to say "what a great trade" it is, even if the PR guys who tweet that are barfing when the press "send."
Most of the fanbase will read the press release and start having severe bouts of nausea, vomiting, and other unpleasntness when they read the Knicks PR releases. They would have to keep Russ on the team and give him a few minutes off the bench, for appearances sake, just to avoid looking like they're calling an esteemed NBA veteran the piece of shyt he is. One of the NBA's laws is, "Thou shalt not humiliate a veteran player because, after all, he's been in our league a long time and it makes all of us look bad."
So fans will get the above-mentioned illness, which could be fatal to some. For example, it could be the end of certain elderly and feeble fans, such as Harthornius Wingodamus Sr.
* We have a Brunson Burner™ * 
That’s not the scary part, that is the whole reason not to do it.
RIP mags
