I’m not sure if it was discussed here before but there’s the idea that stretch waiving Noah doesn’t make moving Courtney Lee a priority for the Knicks to get max space, and thus gives the Knicks leverage in trade discussions. If teams know that the Knicks aren’t desperate to move Lee, they can’t squeeze an asset out of us. It’s a pretty paltry silver lining but I think that’s interesting.

True, they wouldn’t need to move Lee to get a max contract, but they’d still need to clear him to have any shot at getting two guys, right?

I meant to write an article the other day about how we sure are lucky that the Knicks do play in New York and while the allure of New York is likely overstated, it is not non-existent. For instance, there is probably a half-way decent chance that Kyrie Irving and Jimmy Butler seriously would like to come play together in New York and that only happens because of where the Knicks play.

What could change that is if some team actually wanted Noah. No one will want him at his current salary, but if they could get him for the minimum some team might want him. Then that team might do something for the Knicks in return for them waiving and stretching Noah, assuming that is legal under the CBA rules.

Maybe an extended Burke on a dirt cheap contract would move Noah at trading deadline for an expiring.

This is so unbelievably dumb I think the Knicks could actually do it.

Maybe an extended Burke on a dirt cheap contract would move Noah at trading deadline for an expiring.

Nash was skinny as they come

Lance Armstrong was rail-thin, too, except he was superhumanly strong. Blood dopers come in all body types. That said, there is absolutely no evidence that Nash was on PEDs. Chauncey Billups and Jason Kidd were also PGs who struggled until their late twenties, as well. Kidd posted his career-best BPM the same season he turned 30. Billups, 31.

The common theme among the three is that they were high-IQ players who never really relied on explosive athleticism to create their value.