Comments on: Knicks 2007 Summer Roster

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:58:51 +0000

The situation in Charlotte is pretty typical.

A team with a lot of cap room holds on to it for awhile, and don’t get better, so they’re forced, for PR-sake, to spend it all no matter if the “right” player is available or not.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:57:57 +0000

coming into this offseason, they had zero guaranteed contracts for 2008-2009. so even with Okafor, Richardson, and Wallace and exercising the options on Felton, May and Morrison (ugh), they’ll still be well under the cap, although they will need some more bench guys.

http://www.hoopshype.com/salaries/charlotte.htm

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:34:09 +0000

What happend to Charlotte they were very tight with their money for so long and now trade a top ten pick for an overpaid SG and then grossly overpay for an injury-prone SF all just one year away from having to give their PF a near max extension.

Both Richardson and Wallace are good but neither are worth 10 million a year.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:07:56 +0000

Charlotte is supposedly resigning Wallace to a massive contract soon, $60 million was the number I saw.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:04:39 +0000

bmj320 – Balkman is better than you give him credit for. He had I think the fourth highest PER (behind Roy, Millsap and Aldridge) of any rookie last year which is impressive considering he is not an offfensive player and PER is primarily an offensive stat.

On top of that he looks like he is going to be a great defender and the Knicks were 9.2 pts per 100 poss. better on defense with Balkman which is really an amazing number, plus he seems to have pretty solid fundamentals, handling the ball, passing and playing defense. His only weakness is his outside shot which should get better.

I really hope he starts for us this year.

Retropkid – I do not think that adding Richardson is going to help Charlotte that much, especially if they lose Wallace. I still do not project them as a playoff team. Also Boston while better with Allen should not be that much better because they lost West and have no one to man the point. You cannot win in the nba without solid pg play. Plus both he and Pierce seem a little fragile of late.

Orlando got better but I feel healthy we were better than them last year and Randolph is a better player than Lewis in my opinion, so we should improve more.

By: retropkid

retropkid — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:27:53 +0000

Any thoughts about over-all improvement of East this year…Charlotte gets Richardson; Boston gets the shooter they (and we) needed desperately; Orlando…A lot of talent moved West to East.

The Knicks may be better than last year, but have others improved more? …Charlotte and Orlando seem much improved, while Boston may still be missing some pieces. Nets if healthy likely to win at least half their games…

Maybe Heat falls way down? Washington too?

Thoughts?

By: Sunil

Sunil — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:36:32 +0000

thank you kind sir

By: Brian M

Brian M — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:58:31 +0000

Sunil: Here’s a summer league TV schedule for the Knicks. Tonight’s game will be 10pm EST on MSG.

http://www.nba.com/knicks/news/nbasl07_index.html

By: Sunil

Sunil — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:31:23 +0000

SOMEONE HELP ME !

Im from NY and i want to watch the nyk summer league games. What channel should i be watching and at what time ? and where would i find a schedule ?

By: bmj320

bmj320 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:15:50 +0000

Isiah seemed pretty adamant about not trading Lee for Artest which should be commended. But what’s the deal with him saying he will not give up Balkman either? Let’s be serious, Balkman is a dime a dozen player a Gen-X, all athletisism and no defined skills. Artest, yes he has major baggage is one of the most skilled players at that position in the league. Isiah, stop with the redundancy. Jeffries, Balkman, Chandler and Nichols. Move one or both of those guys in a package for Artest.