My guess is he’s a kid who was a big fan of rapper 21 Savage when he joined twitter

Oh, I agree that that is likely what it was, but it’s also a poorly thought out idea. 🙂

I put up a new thread for the sake of having a new thread: http://knickerblogger.net/ny-post-we-dont-play-to-lose-knicks-not-focusing-on-lottery-odds/

I don’t think AD winds up here. Ainge has the hots for him and he clearly prefers the Lakers. My guess is that he winds up on one of those two teams, and if not, goes with the Clips.

I just don’t want to believe that Perry would be stupid enough to stockpile lots of young assets and then blow it all (especially Mitch, who the braintrust seem to value incredibly highly) on AD. Could it happen? Sure. But my best guess is that you will see AD join LeBron and Kyrie in LA.

I agree that AD probably ends up somewhere else, but I also think that Perry would, in a blink of an eye, trade for AD if it was part of a “Sign KD and Irving and then trade for AD” deal. Beyond that….huh, I really don’t know if they would empty the farm for “just” AD. I sure as heck hope not. I will say “no,” as well. Now, Frank’s KD and AD idea? That’s a tough one…

23Savage? For serious?

My guess is he’s a kid who was a big fan of rapper 21 Savage when he joined twitter

This would make sort of a bell curve where teams in the middle of the lottery were very unlikely (like 20% chance or a bit less) to land a top 3 or 4 pick but they were very likely to move up a couple of slots from where they finished. For example, the team that just missed the playoffs at #14 has a 2.5% chance of landing in the top 4 but a 47% chance of landing at #5?

I just don’t want to believe that Perry would be stupid enough to stockpile lots of young assets and then blow it all (especially Mitch, who the braintrust seem to value incredibly highly) on AD. Could it happen? Sure. But my best guess is that you will see AD join LeBron and Kyrie in LA.

It’ll probably never get to that point, which is good news for MitchRob fans such as, well, everyone here, but I doubt the Knicks would hold off on trading Robinson for AD.

I think you’re right about that in a vacuum — but the salary matching rules might actually save us in that while I think they’d trade Mitch for AD, they would prob balk at trading essentially every young player for AD.

Now – bearing in mind that I have not not fully thought this out— I do sort of wonder whether we might be better off “signing” AD as the 2nd max player rather than the 3rd. For 2019-20, AD is a “bargain” at ~25MM, and thereafter we won’t have cap space anyway, so would we be better off signing KD at $36MM, trading, say $10MM in salary (like Frank, Knox, the 2019 draft pick assuming it’s not Zion) plus, say, the unprotected 1st we got from Dallas for AD — I’m not saying that would necessarily get it done, just spitballing. That would make AD a “net” $15MM signing, leaving us with nearly $15-20MM left in cap space, in addition to allowing us to keep DSJ, Trier, and Dotson as depth pieces, and NOT trading Mitch.