Is Dolan Cheap?
by east_harlem on Feb 1, 2012 9:32 AM EST
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PrintFound this article by Scoop Jackson to be interesting for several reasons, one of which is that it raises the idea that Dolan may be underspending. I thought that we were constricted by the new CBA and didn't have the cap space to pay more. But Dolan HAS let many players slip through his fingers (Corey Brewer for nothing), and one wonders what this team could look like if we had some of those players rather than our current role players. I've seen some of the Clippers games and I've been impressed with what Chauncey is doing, shame it's not for the team he intended to be doing it for - the team that so desperately needs a PG.
I'm positive about the future, though. If Carmelo Anthony learns to keep passing like the past couple games, and we add one of the ex-Nuggets or Landry keeps his numbers up, I think we really could have championship-caliber offense and defense. I do think we're short of a solid bench scorer though; a Jason Terry type who can walk off the bench into a game we're losing and drill a 3 in Miami or Chicago to stop a run. If we can get K-Mart or J.R. Smith (paging Metta World Piece's therapist) maybe that would work. Anyway here's the quote and link to article:
"It all boils down to the Murphy's Law of money: What can go wrong when a team decides to go out on the cheap, will go wrong. The front office will call it "freeing up money to clear cap space," but the reality is that the Chauncey Billups Amnesty Plan has backfired. The Knicks chose not to pay Billups -- the most important spoke in the Viscera -- the $14.2 million he was owed and instead are trying to get five other players (Mike Bibby, Jeremy Lin, Toney Douglas, Iman Shumpert and Baron Davis) to do what he did for a little more than $5M.
Cheap.
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Nathaniel S. Butler/Getty ImagesHow does Spike Lee do it? (At this particular moment during a Jan. 20 loss to the Bucks, not very happily.)
The justification they tried to sell to fans: We used the leftover money to acquire Tyson Chandler to stabilize the front line and do for us what he did for the Dallas Mavericks. Which was win a championship.
This, coming from an organization that paid Larry Brown more than $18M five years ago not to be the team's coach."
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Oh man
We amnestied Billups to free up cap space so we could sign Tyson Chandler. Yeah, the guy that’s been helping out a ton in the “championship caliber defense” you speak of. Dolan is a lot of things, but he definitely isn’t cheap.
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Ya musta forgot!
Hey we won some tough games with Burps in the lineup, he’s still money in the clutch. Got 32 against Denver the other night. He’s got solid numbers despite sharing duties out of position with Chris Paul.
Could Dolan have found a way to get Chandler and still keep Billups?
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
We won tough games
With Nate Robinson and Jared Jeffries starting too. Doesn’t mean much. And no, without amnestying Billups, we wouldn’t have Tyson. He’s paying the contract too, so that has nothing to do with greed, it’s just doesn’t count towards the salary cap.
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Just want to point out that Dolan *is* paying Chauncey $12 million this year to play for the Clippers
Amnestying a player doesn’t release a team from that contract, just removes the contract from the cap. The Knicks have to pay his entire salary save for the $2mil that the Clips bid for him.
So yeah. Dolan’s problem is not that he’s cheap. It’s that he’s ignorant, impatient, greedy, thinks he can sing, etc. etc..
Can anyone be a journalist these days??
As noted by others, a) we are STILL paying Chauncey via the amnesty clause; and b) we didn’t amnesty him to save money, we did it to clear cap space for Chandler!
How can you write an article about a topic you clearly know nothing about?
We are spending around $8 million on players this year that aren't producing.
Balkman $1.6 million (2 yr)
Baron $1.35
Bibby – $1.35
Jeffries – $1.2
Douglas – $1.1 (2 mill next yr)
Novak – ~ $1 mill
Walker ~$1 mill
Would it have been impossible to gut the bench to keep Chauncey? You’d have Shump, Jorts, Lin, and Jordan on the bench, plus some D-Leaguers or whatever. Not a good move for depth but at least in Chauncey we knew what we were getting…THE FACT IS not a single name on that list is consistent.
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
That doesn't have anything
I repeat, anything, to do with being cheap. Gut the bench for a injury prone Chauncey? Billups was owed 14 million, not 8. We’d have 9 players on the team. 6 D-League players on the bench? Seriously?
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Miami is spending $79 million on its players. LA is spending $85. I feel like we would've been able to afford Chauncey and one or two of the guys on that list for less than $80 million.
Is it that hard to James Dolan to match the Busses or Micky Arison? Am I understanding this all wrong?
I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
You are understanding this all wrong
You need to understand the salary cap.
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they are mostly getting the minimum
And the Knicks are over the cap. No way the Knicks could have kept Billups. And the FACT is that Billups hasn’t played well anyway. He’s had a couple of good games, but he’s not consistent, and can’tplay D anymore either.
how can u say baron is what were waisting money on?
he was paid to heal and be in after the all-star break.
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by Lawrence Taylor The Real LT on Feb 3, 2012 6:48 PM EST up reply actions
KMart?
I’m not sure if you’ve seen his CBA stats, but he’s not doing that well…
And there’s no reason for playing bad, as Wilson Chandler and J.R. Smith are tearing it up in CBA.
KMart hasn't been playing in the CBA for a while
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I will go to my grave believing that if the Knicks had picked up Earl Barron before the 2011 Playoffs, we would not have been swept by the Celtics.
choose
85 year old billups that shoots the ball more than passes. or tyson chandler in his prime???
Dear fox.... Fire Aikman and buck. they suck
Desean Jackson IS a punk....................UNLEASH Eli
Jason Peire Paul (JPP) 2011-2012 NFL Defensive player of the year
"We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees." –Jason Kidd
"If you come to a fork in the road, take it" -Yogi Berra
by Lawrence Taylor The Real LT on Feb 3, 2012 6:49 PM EST reply actions
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