plus, think of the parties that team would throw. do guys still count against the cap if they’re in prison?

Curry and Randolph have proved they cant work together, primarily because Eddy Curry is a fat ugly slob who couldn’t run the length of the court if you paid him to. (unfortunately for us, we do pay him to)

Jerome James is a injury plagued bum who had a spark of decency in a playoff series like 3 or 4 years ago, so the moment he can leave this team he needs to be on the first bus out.

Ricky Davis, Stephon Marbury, and Allen Iverson are three of the most selfish players in the league. (Marbury and Iverson happen to be some of my fav. players but there’s no getting around the fact of their selfishness which may be the reason neither have a ring) The last thing the Knicks need are inflated egos such as those all on one team.

Telfair might be a viable option if he continues progressing as a passing PG, although he would have been much better had he gone to college… but thats neither here nor there.

Artest is a great defensive player but he comes at too high a price… so yea, i doubt that team could co exist and would be worse than the debacle we had 2 years ago.

For one thing, I’d rather see the Knicks concentrate on becoming very good on one side of the ball: have either a top 5 offense or defense. Smith and Nene would move you in opposite directions as far as I can tell. Right now Isiah’s “offense guys” and “defense guys” strategy is falling flat on its face. I don’t know if his logic was this would make a strong team on both sides of the ball, but the result has obviously been a poor team on both sides. (The great thing about Isiah’s tenure is that it’s literally a case study on what not to do in constructing an NBA team.)

Crawford-Randolph/Smith-Nene might be a decent lateral move, although the character questions coming in are at least as bad as the ones going out. The Knicks don’t have the talent of the top NBA teams, but they have the talent to make the playoffs (not the mix of talent, but overall level of talent). I think that what they need is a direction and some leadership. Crawford is the closest thing they have to a leader (although I would easily buy an argument that you need to get rid of him and establish some new leadership), as well as one of their better players (gulp) and probably second to Lee in terms of trade value. Moving Crawford has got to be the second best option the Knicks have to inprove this summer (after the draft pick).

Caleb,

Maybe if the pick is closer to 10…even if it was a pick you were comfortable dealing you have to consider moving it with Marbury or Rose’s contract for the chance to get a young core guy like Deng, Igoudala, Josh Smith, Okafor.

Personally, if Isiah stays, the offseason I’m hoping for would be to sign Artest, and have Iverson opt out and trade any decent players we have for him…keeping the twin towers, of course, and preferably moving Jerome James into the rotation. Resigning Marbury long-term would also be a priority. Marbury-Iverson… think about it’s got to be better than Marbury-Francis. Ricky Davis and Sebastian Telfair are also hitting free agency… Here’s our rotation: Curry, Randolph, Jerome James, Artest, Davis, Marbury, Iverson, and Telfair. Talent, athleticism, size, power.

Would you trade Randolph & the #5 pick to the Clippers, for Elton Brand?

Would the Clippers do it? What # draft pick would it take?

personally, I wouldn’t do any of those… Elton Brand is too old (and the injury question)… but I was thinking about who might actually be willing to take Randolph, and there aren’t (m)any out there.