Ben R:

Let’s wait until we need the cap space before we give away lottery picks to clear it.

That’s true in the abstract but the team might have made a personal commitment to Walker after we stopped playing him that we would find some way to enable him to play somewhere else.

Then there were opportunities to move back into the draft to get Washington who fell far, or Chandler, or Minott, or Brown.

The first trade was fine especially considering we were able to trade back into #13. That’s where we should have stopped instead we threw it away to clear $3 million in cap space (we could have saved $6 million by simply stretching him).

Let’s wait until we need the cap space before we give away lottery picks to clear it.

Brunson, definitely. Murray’s the better player, but he’s an odd fit here and he’s not so good that you just build the roster around him. Plus, I don’t think the three future firsts they acquired would be enough to get him, so it’d be other good players/picks involved.

Brunson could be as simple as just trading Burks to a team that has cap space, ya know? And then signing Brunson outright, re-signing Mitch and trading the picks with somebody for another interesting player.

If the Knicks use one or two of those firsts to move Randle all is forgiven.

Yeah, there are a lot of possible moves that could be coming. I’m going to wait until we see what happens when the dust settles. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not at all confident at it working out, but I have to still give them the chance to prove themselves first. This is the time for Rose to prove he’s got what it takes.