Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2018.05.07)

By: GianaDani

GianaDani — Tue, 08 May 2018 17:04:46 +0000

KP is a franchise player because he’s a clean cut guy who doesn’t get in trouble and can be marketed as Franchise player. Same as Melo. CP3, Blake, Dirk, Pierce, TMac..etc. Reason the owners give them max money is because they make 10x that in return. Type in MSG in yahoo finance website, see how the stock did during Melo’s time here at the garden and then ask yourself if Dolan thinks Melo trade was good?

By: GianaDani

GianaDani — Tue, 08 May 2018 17:03:53 +0000

As constructed Toronto aka Jamestown will be a top four team in the Eastern Conference for another 4 yrs, minimum. Consistent sell outs, two all-stars, growing fan base (revenue) etc… and some folks here think this is a perfect time for owner to move away from this situation and go back to losing aka discounted tickets and lower merchandising revenue?

Every franchise/owner has the same goal, get to the top 4 teams in your conference and give yourself a shot at the finals and stay at the top four spot as long as possible. Injuries, sickness, player forced trades, veteran is picked of waivers, player surprises downside, life timing (players personal situations like family sickness, marriage, alcohol/drug abuse etc), poor referring (ex: Hubert Davis call or Charles Smith non call), someone gets hot and outplays their abilities, ejections and/or suspensions, perfect matchups, etc…are often X-factors and determine who wins a specific series.

By: lavor postell

lavor postell — Tue, 08 May 2018 11:40:39 +0000

I don’t necessarily think it’s that there aren’t dopes in charge of front offices around the league, but that the league (and fans) now values 1st round picks so much that it’s made teams increasingly risk averse in trading assets for a “star” unless that star is a clear cut stud, which Blake isn’t any longer and why that deal was widely panned by most when it happened. Maybe Toronto can find a sucker for DeRozan, but I think their best bet would be something like Melo and a protected 1st or something along those lines, which effectively lets them out of the deal for an expiring deal with a minimal asset attached.

By: Chazz79

Chazz79 — Tue, 08 May 2018 07:27:05 +0000

I am from Germany anf for example in our highest soccer league the worst 2 teams must go one leage down. So we dont reward the worst teams, the must go down, because they are not good enough to be in the best league. So I know, you have a different system. But I think maybe they should reward the 9th seed with high pics. Tanking sucks really!!! Should be a good mix, of course the worst teams, should have a high pick, but not considered for the first picks maybe onlye up to 5% in Lottery. Something like that, it is only an idea. But tanking is cheating, I hate to watch the Knicks tanking and then making bad draft picks on top. It is cheating the ppl who pays money home, in MSG, it is wasting time. And not much player developoment at all on the tanking roster. Maybe, if the fight hard, they would improve and are better next season. And how many rebuild season do we else need??? I have the feeling we never did a really rebuild since the 2014-15 season. So those year are only trash, nothing happened!!! Ok it was Phils failure. Regarding Mills and Perry, I actually don´t know if we will succeeding one with them. If the situation 2020 is similar they must get fired!!!! I wish there would be a position above Dolan who can fire him!!!!!

By: JK47

JK47 — Tue, 08 May 2018 06:14:15 +0000

All it takes is one dope, so you never say never. But there aren’t that many dumb GMs left in the league with SVG getting canned.

Who was the guy who gave 4/71 to Tim Hardaway Jr? Get that guy on the phone.

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Tue, 08 May 2018 06:10:16 +0000

The Lakers are the perfect match because they’ll have so much cap space that they can take DeRozan’s salary without matching anything. I’m not thinking about a premium, but I could see them offering something like Kuzma + sign and trade Randle + a protected future first for him, for example, with those pieces serving as assets + guys like Poeltl or Wright to trade for other players. The Clippers could offer Gallinari plus either Lou Williams or Beverley + filler + picks.

I’m just throwing out ideas of what could potentially happen, as I think DeRozan definitely has a market and Toronto has to make a move to be any relevant in the east.

By: TheOakmanCometh

TheOakmanCometh — Tue, 08 May 2018 05:27:20 +0000

All it takes is one dope, so you never say never. But there aren’t that many dumb GMs left in the league with SVG getting canned. Hard to see someone paying a premium for DeRozan. He doesn’t even have the star power of a Griffin.

Let’s say LAL strikes out in free agency and is open to a DeRozan trade. What would they offer for him?

By: Bruno Almeida

Bruno Almeida — Tue, 08 May 2018 05:11:04 +0000

My reasoning for a DeRozan trade is that Blake Griffin, who’s probably a worse player and has a much worse contract just got traded for the 12th overall pick + Bradley, Harris and Boban, which is a pretty good haul. Granted it happened because of Detroit’s stupidity, but I would say there’s plenty of teams out there that would want DeRozan still.

By: Glew

Glew — Tue, 08 May 2018 04:57:18 +0000

Anyone get a load of our roster? It’s not really our choice to tank or not..hopefully he just plays/develops some of the Young’s instead of bury them on the bench and using a quick leash if they make a mistake

By: nicos

nicos — Tue, 08 May 2018 04:40:05 +0000

Given how much money both Lowry and DeRozan have left on their contracts it’s tough to see them getting much of anything other than other teams problems in return. Lowry has two years left at 30m+ per and DeRozan has 2 plus a player options at around 28 per. Both guys have struggled enough in the playoffs that it’s tough to see another team thinking one or the other is going to put them over the top. Add to that the fact that Toronto has enough young talent that even if you do trade those guys you’re probably not going to wind up with a high lottery pick to rebuild around and I’m guessing that they just fire Casey and hope LBJ takes his talents to L.A. so they can fight it out with Philly and Boston.