That Arenas is and should be on Donnie Walsh’s radar. Quite frankly, the guy can flat out score on anyone. There was a stretch there in DC (I lived there and would watch him live) where he carried that team on his back. I think this could be a great pickup for the Knicks. He is a total wildcard in this whole 2010 thing. I see the Knicks being a serious possibility for Arenas. As long as we get him at that discount price, I say we’d be dumb not to do it.

if he’s available, should be an option.

When he’s healthy, he’s a good player. Shouldn’t be a primary option probably..but if he’s on a team with say….______ then, yea can’t pass that up.

As long as we’re not signing him to Allan Houston contracts tho…

but there are a few issues that would hinder us:

1) Unfairly, he would be lumped into that list of Marbury-like players that are headcases.

2) He still hasn’t made it through enough games for me to be 100% sure that his knee is healthy. He was playing very well until all this hoopla, so thats a good sign.

3) What would it cost to potentially sign him? Arenas has a monster contract, and if by some miracle Washington ends up voiding it, he would surely not take a huge paycut. $10M minimum per year I’d say.

I like Arenas, and I think he would be exciting in a Knicks uniform. He plays hard, he plays through injury, and he shows up every night. There is just very little chance that the Wizards would be able to void his contract. Even if they do try to, the Players Union would immediately step in and make it a huge mess. Nevermind that its Washington’s OWN fault since they signed him to it during his injury time. Of course it would come back to bite them!! I don’t think NY would be willing to take on such a risky contract either.

arenas could be a cheap, talented answer to the knicks’ point guard woes, and a great compliment to any other stars we might happen to pick up over the summer. we’ll see how the contract situation with washington works out.

I’d also say that arenas seems to have the NY state of mind, and could be a great fit in this system, but he’s got to keep the antics under control, and i’m sure D’antoni could handle that like you guys said.

He would be beyond huge in this massive market.

Something I read about Arenas’ meeting with Stern in which he mentioned the Wizards trying to void his contract made me think that maybe he wouldn’t mind so much if they did. That would be very strange, but Arenas is a quirky guy. If that contract does get voided, I sort of had a premonition that he’d end up on the Knicks next year. He would still be a risky signing if he was free of his contract via buyout or void, so he might come relatively cheap. It’s hard to imagine the Wizards being able to trade him – his contract is just too ridiculous.

the guy that would put us over the top is obviously richard hamilton.