I don’t know where you come up with this shit sometimes.

Bob doesn’t know where I came up with the crazy idea that an elite PG can make players around him better. Ok, Bob.

Yabusele is also represented by Olivier Mazet, same agent as Diawara and Ntilikina

A new big 3 coming?!?!

My main beef with next year’s Knicks so far is they they don’t have enough rim protection. How many championship teams have had shitty rim protection? There can’t be very many.

Turner was ok, but Halliburton made him look a lot better, and I think they know they Halliburton can make someone else look a lot better, too.

I don’t know where you come up with this shit sometimes. How is Hali going to make someone 7 foot who led the league twice in blocked shots and 3rd in the league this season.

Where are you going to find a guy who is one of the best rim protector AND shoots 39.6% on 3s shooting good volume.

indiana only has their pick because they traded the 23rd pick in this draft to new orleans for their own 2026 pick.

that’s the same 23rd pick new orleans packaged with an unprotected first to move up.

so joe dumars actually gave up two unprotected 2026 firsts to get the 11th pick in the draft: his own and the Pacers (which is looking pretty good right now).

It’s pretty telling that Clarkson’s lowest ppg over 11 seasons is higher than Cam’s highest over 10 seasons.

Yes, but it only tells us that Clarkson averaged 4 additional shots per 36 minutes. And at his efficiency that’s not a good thing.

Still, what he brings is hard to replace, certainly not at 80/20 or even 70/30 or 65/35. Maybe Pritchard can pull off 60/40? It’s a thin market though.

While I would love for this to be the kind of setback that losing iHart was for us, I can’t help but see the outline of a smart plan here.

The Pacers are not going to compete next year, so they don’t need to replace him in this market.

Now they will win less games next year, which means a higher draft pick next summer. And bc of the money they saved they will have access to the full MLE, too.

Turner was ok, but Halliburton made him look a lot better, and I think they know they Halliburton can make someone else look a lot better, too. They will take their medicine this year, and next year retool with a prime draft pick and the full MLE to use.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they slide Isaiah Hartenstein into that MLE next summer when the Thunder decline his option. Either way I think they’re going to end up better in the end here.

I definitely agree about the screen setting. We really missed that this year. And we also definitely need a guy who can break the defense down off the dribble, other than Brunson. If Clarkson can do that good.

Although the chances of me liking him seem quite low at the moment.