Duhon, Chandler, Gallo, Lee, Harrington, Douglas, Bender, Curry, Mobley, + McGrady, Rodriguez, House, Walker, Giddens, Cardinal.

That is a tiny team, Lee and Bender are the only big men and Bender may not even be in the rotation. I would assume they’ll cut Cardinal and sign a big man.

The sleeper of this trade is Bill Walker the kid can ball. He’ll play great in Danphoni’s up tempo system, give the kid some min’s!!!

was in class all day, a lot has changed since the morning.

if anyone wants to join me, ill be building a statue of donnie and lebron in front of the garden.

I agree with EVERYTHING you said. We gave up 2 seasons and risked a potential 3 lottery picks to have a chance at this guy. And we’re not gonna stop at that. Whatever LeBron wants, LeBron gets, thats gonna be the deal going in, and if you dont like it lump it. You think after all that we’re gonna lump it, cause if we do, somebody else will like it. Think about the revenues that would be created by this guy. LeBrons not dumb, hes not gonna make us choose a player much worse than anyother. Just sayin, if its between Free Agent A and Free Agent B, and LeBron wants A, we’re gonna sign A.

Houston made off like a bandit, highway robbery really.

We got nothing in return for Nate, NOTHING. Fail.

We gave up Hill and all those picks for Knee-Mac, sigh all that for cap space, I’d rather just Keep Jeffries.

Al Harrington is still on our roster, Fail.

No Tyrus Thomas, fail.

Yea we got a pg, but “Duhon’s our guy”. Fail.

I’ll say this once again, either HWSNBN, or D-WADE, or bust. No other combination of two max contracts will make us into a contender. Joe Johnson and Amare? Weren’t they on the same team a couple years back with Shawn Marion and the league’s MVP, did they win a title?

Well, atleast this clears up space for us to resign Duhon and Harrington.

What if the Rockets suck next year…..Kevin Martin could get hurt again ….nobody knows about Yao….and they got rid of their big man landry……the 2011 pick might work out for the knicks

It seems we will have about 32 mil in cap space this summer, so that leaves with a bevy of options. Not that its definite, but for funs sake and this posts sake Im going to assume we get LeBron and have 16 mil to play with. That leaves us with 16 mil in cap space, the 6mil mid level exception (MLE), and 2 million veterans exception. LeBron in addition to Gallo, Chandler, Douglas, Curry, Walker (from Boston), in addition to our 2nd round pick leaves us with 7 players. That means we have to sign at least 5 more players to have a complete roster. First off it’s important to remember that a team can use either exception to sign multiple players, which may be in our best interest, especially if we use both max contracts. If we sign another max player, say Bosh, we’d have the 2 exceptions (totalling 8 million) to sign 4 more players. With LeBron and Bosh on roster it would barely even matter who came along for the ride, but we’d still have to get a PG out of it somehow.

The other scenario is signing LeBron and resigning Lee. For arguments sake lets sake Lee signs 5 years, 50 million, prorated at 8-9-10-11-12. That leaves us with 8 million in cap space, in addition to the 8 million combined for the 2 exceptions. This scenario seems a lot more flexible to me. I think if we end up resigning Lee, a good complimentary player alongside would be Marcus Camby. He’s the kind of shot blocker we need and doesn’t have THAT bad of a jumper (in order to play under D’Antoni), unlike many shot blockers. Other defensive specialists that would be good fits alongside Lee are Ben Wallace and Tyson Chandler, both UFA’s. Both could easily be afforded under this scenario (Wallace under either). Other key role players available that are worth mentioning, other than whats on our roster now (in particularI feel Eddie House is a great one to have) are: Brad Miller, Raja Bell, Earl Watson (i like as a backup), Steve Blake, Rasual Butler, Udanis Haslem, Q-Rich, Carlos Arroyo, Roger Mason, Kyler Korver, Drew Gooden, and Mike Miller. None of those guys would be terribly expensive, but each have particular fassets of their game that could and would help a winning team.

The point guard market is EXTREMELY thin. Going down the list of free agents the best I could come up with are Felton, Alston, and Ridnour. Others in a bench role could be Tinsley or Jason Williams (yes, its that weak). Derek Fishers also a FA but I doubt he leaves LA. That leads us to the trade market (where I believe the Knicks will ultimately find their starting PG) Taking a look at PG’s with long contracts (dollars under salary cap can be used as trade exceptions), I stopped at the Nets and their potential #1 pick. Devin Harris has an additional 3 years and 27 million left on his deal. If the Nets land John Wall, Harris could very well be on the market. Trading Harris would leave the Nets with only Lopez, Yi, Terrence Williams, and Wall under contract, and they would esentially be $40 million under the cap going into 2011. The only thing is I believe that the Nets would be pretty hesitant to trading Harris to us, in division, especially if when we are on the verge of something big. Other interesting options through trade would be Baron Davis (3 years/ 42 mil)-ouch, Kirk Hinrich (2 years /17 mil), Lou Williams (3 years/17 mil) Ramon Sessions (3 years/12.5 mil), and potentially if Amare walks, Steve Nash (2 years / 22 mil). You’ve also got Gilbert in Washington due 80 mil over 4 years. Remember, for many of these players it would require the Knicks to offer more than just a salary dump in order to acquire them. I love the fact that in addition to sign the 2 big FA’s, these options are now available to us as well. Thank you Donnie. So lets hear it guys… what do you all think? What do you want to see happen???

On SI.com one writer wrote that this deal allows the knicks to sign 2 max free agents and resign tmac and dlee. Is this possible?

First, a question. Is Cardinale going to stay on the roster and will he play? I don’t want to talk now about next summer, etc, etc. We still have games to play this season ans I’d like to watch some good basketball (on the tube—I can only afford the blue seats and I suffer from nose-bleeds). I’d like to see a lot less of Chris Duhon, good guy that he is. In the backcourt, I’d like to see a primary rotation of House, Rodriguez and Douglas, with Chandler getting major time as a swingman. Chandler has played well, albeit with some inconsitency. He has a tremendous upside and is rguably the best Knick player after David Lee. He does more all around than Harrington. In the frontcourt, David Lee should conitinue as the no. 1 guy and get more as much time as possible , without totally wearing him out or risking injury. ‘nuf said. Then of course, there’s Harrington and Danilo who needs to work more on his inside game. These are the guys that should get the major minutes altough if all goes well physically with McGrady, his minutes should start slow and steadily increase—hopefully without much delay. The other guys who remain on the roster are wild cards. Bender cannot contribute much although he can help in the event of foul trouble for the big men. I’ve not seen Walker and Gittens play and all I’ve seen from Cardinale is that he is very energetic (plays hard) and is a strong guy. Have I left anyone out? I’ll miss Nate but overall I think you get a solid player in House.

I think this will work out for NY. Players want money and stardom, etc. NY can give that better than the other teams so they will get two good players .. two great players. NY still has a few guys who can play. Add any two out of Wade, Lebron, Amare, Bosh, Joe Johnson and things change quickly. Why wouldnt a free agent go to NY? The city? No. The Money? No. The big stage scare them? No. The coach? No, NY is now attractive. These guys are becoming free agents because they want MORE and NY can give them more than most teams. It is going to happen.