Comments on: Knicks Morning News (2025.04.10)

By: Raven is a Big Black Bird

Raven is a Big Black Bird — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:45:01 +0000

Cunningham is listed as probable for Thursday with left patellar tendinopathy. Tobias Harris, who played 22 minutes against the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 2 before exiting with right heel soreness, is listed as probable as well. Isaiah Stewart is dealing with right knee inflammation and is questionable for Thursday.

Gonna be a weird one.

By: iserp

iserp — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:53:16 +0000

I’m tempted to say the Beal trade was worse than the Luka trade.

I did thought Beal was worth taking a flyer on … if it just meant matching salary.

I was amazed at the amount of picks they gave for Beal. I really thought that Washington would have been glad to dump him on whichever team Beal was ok with waiving his NTC, and maybe just ask for a fake first to save face. Instead of that, they gave up all their future assets!

By: TNFH

TNFH — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:15:01 +0000

Also very much worth mentioning that Booker’s numbers in the playoffs are excellent, which isn’t true of everyone with a statistical profile like his. I’ve always been curious as to whether there are empirics on this, but anecdotally there does seem to be a separation of the men from the boys that takes place.

Melo, for example, just could not hack it in the playoffs at all for whatever reason. He had a few decent runs but his overall playoff TS% was .513, which even by the standards of the era was…not good.

Booker being able to maintain/improve on his regular season production is meaningful, offensive rating consistently goes down in the playoffs.

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:05:38 +0000

I feel like a stretch 5 is worth more than a shrink 2, but I don’t follow either terribly closely these days.

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:52:02 +0000

Booker is currently valued at $55,000,000 a year, which isn’t great bang for the buck.

very similar to KAT

By: Donnie Walsh

Donnie Walsh — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:48:36 +0000

White has got to be the most underrated player in the league by national standards.

If your best player is Tatum, you take White. If your best player is Tyson Chandler, you take Booker I guess.

Personally, if shopping for a FA combo guard in an open marketplace, I’d probably do the 80/20 thing and sign a guy like Mathurin over Booker, whom I think is a more inconsistent model, but is young and has a lot of upside still to unlock on both ends. Booker is currently valued at $55,000,000 a year, which isn’t great bang for the buck.

By: Z-man

Z-man — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:20:13 +0000

“I am definitely taking the over on 15-20.

Derrick White? Would you take Devin Booker or Derrick White?

I would take White.”

Derrick White is an excellent complementary player, top 5 in the NBA in that regard. But he is not nearly the offensive player that Booker is…he is best at being opportunistic on a team with other high usage players doing the heavy lifting on offense. He’s excellent defensively and not bad at anything, but to be competitive, you need high-usage shot creators, and those are expensive.

By: Director NYC

Director NYC — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:51:23 +0000

Booker is am incredible talent but he has a terrible character. “Everyobody acting tough when they’re up”

By: Director NYC

Director NYC — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:46:50 +0000

I’m tempted to say the Beal trade was worse than the Luka trade.

Not wrong….over the next 5yrs, – which organization will be worse off: Dallas or Phoenix?

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:45:04 +0000

I am definitely taking the over on 15-20.

Derrick White? Would you take Devin Booker or Derrick White?

I would take White.