From Michael Blinn:
Jose Alvarado is coming home.
The Knicks acquired the 27-year-old guard — a Brooklyn native — from the Pelicans on Thursday, adding depth at the trade deadline.
A star at Christ the King, Alvarado averaged 7.9 points per game with 3.1 assists and 2.8 rebounds over 41 appearances off the bench for New Orleans this season.
The Knicks sent Dalen Terry — acquired on Wednesday night from the Bulls for Guerschon Yabusele — to the Pelicans, along with a pair of second-round picks to complete the deal.
The NBA trade deadline hits a 3 p.m. on Thursday.
With Deuce out for a while, this is a very needed addition.
Good move, Leon!
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I am mildly excited by this. We’ve gotten even shorter, but he’ll be fun to watch. Going from Yabu to Jose will be an utter joy from an aesthetics perspective…
I still have an hour and 23 minutes to hope for a trade that nets a decent backup big. Although I guess that we might address that need in the buyout market now that some cap space has been freed up.
I was kind of excited for Dalen Terry. He is a very good defender with a developing shot. Alvarado is great but I have faith in Kolek and Alvarado is redundant with him. But still a solid enough trade.
We need some size. The money savings lets us sign one player. I like Oliver Sarr as an option. Hopefully we can also move Clarkson and free up another spot.
This is exactly what I’d hoped we’d do—make changes on the fringes rather than a “swing for the fences” move. I still hope to get a serviceable replacement for Yabu on the buyout market, which really shouldn’t be difficult. Plumlee (waived by Thunder) is already better than him. Is he healthy? He hasn’t played since Christmas, but I don’t know if that is related to injury or something else.
Edit (CBS Sports):
Plumlee was used sparingly by Charlotte across 14 appearances before being sidelined by a groin surgery. He’s scheduled to be re-evaluated after the All-Star break, and he’ll likely draw some interest from contending teams in need of frontcourt depth.
OK, I’d rather get someone who can actually play for us. We’re not the Wizards (thank G-d).
Seconded. We need a backup big who can play PF and C given the- while very intriguing- experience behing OG at the 4.
I has question though, after the way Kolek has played when given a shot, is it really a forgone conclusion that Alvarado is going to play Deuce’s minutes over him? And I gotta say- Deuce will be sorely missed, but I also can’t wait to see Alvarado pick up opposing PG’s 90 feet away from the basket in the playoffs. How long is Deuce expected to be out anyway?
I expect that with all the trades made in the last couple of days, the waiver wire market is going to be pretty robust. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if some teams waived players to promote two-way guys up to regular contracts.
I’m confident in our ability to find a cromulent backup PF who can shoot 3s a little bit on the buyout market, if we choose to do so (and we should).
Here’s a rather glowing report on the trade from Sam Quinn:
donnie won the trade deadline. huge opportunity for a benedict superfan to live up to the name and switch to the clippers.
Zubac to Indiana. Shit. That’ll make them a real pain in the ass when Hali is back next year.
I like Zubac but my initial reaction is that he is not as good of a fit with Hali as Myles Turner was. I also think Mathurin really gave them some punch off the bench. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
BTW does it mean that the 2026 pick will only convey if the Pacers get lucky in the lottery? Or don’t get unlucky?
indy gave up a lot of value with those pick terms.
This was an excellent move for the Knicks but I’m sure it was nudged by the knowledge that Deuce is out for the rest of the regular season. Yabu was not a fit with the Knicks and Alvarado is, well, a lot like Deuce. He’s been sent to Siberia in New Orleans. Statcast comparison of 2024-2025 seasons
Another thing is that his player option is $4.5M vs Yabusele’s $5.775M so it’s another $1.275M of cap space.
The pick 2026 indy pick is 1-4 protected
If your the Clips you want the pick in this draft , who knows if 2031 draft will be any good
This did really seem to be a high price to pay for a very good player but who hasn’t taken a single 3 in the last 3 seasons and has 12 3PA in his 8+ year career. Carlisle is a genius though, so they must have something innovative in mind.
Begley said the league might come down hard on the Clippers after All star Weekend..
We don’t have the pick terms on the Alvarado trade yet, do we?
If we gave up the WAS picks it’s a good trade for them
“Begley said the league might come down hard on the Clippers after All star Weekend..”
Can you expand upon that?
I’m excited for the possibility of Boston regretting Vooch as a starting center. Although I guess if he sucks they could just play Queta instead.
Begley has heard the league could be planning punishment in terms of the Kawhi aspiration scam.
“In 2022, NBA star Kawhi Leonard signed a four-year, $28 million endorsement deal with Aspiration, a sustainability company, plus $20 million in stock. The deal is currently under NBA investigation for allegedly circumventing the salary cap, with allegations it was a “no-show” contract. Leonard maintains he did not commit wrongdoing.”.
Indy betting on a coin flip
“We don’t have the pick terms on the Alvarado trade yet, do we?
If we gave up the WAS picks it’s a good trade for them”
Seems like it would be very sloppy, and perhaps even unallowable, reporting to not simply say the protected WAS first if that were indeed the case. Not impossible that they did that, but I’m hoping that if it were actually that pick, it would have been reported as such.
two-minute warning!
Posted this on the wrong thread..oof lol:
Is it true that the Alvarado trade saved us enough against the cap that we can immediately sign a 15th player to the roster? How about we trade Dadiet for a backup big and bring Pate up?
Sad to see my Pacers core broken up, but Intuit Dome is a lot closer to me than The Gain. Better go stand in line for my season tickets, probably gonna be pretty long now
Ok, now we can all breathe and enjoy this team for the next few months.
I believe we have to wait until the start of March. Which is still better than having to wait until the start of April. But if guys start getting bought out immediately, Leon is going to really have to work some of his relationships to convince dudes to wait a month before signing up to chase a ring with the Knicks.
Deadline came, and it appears Alvarado was our only move. A good move, absolutely, but you know Aller would have liked to get the Dadiet contract off the books to bring in another vet ASAP.
Pretty much every target that made sense for us to trade KAT for got traded. Seems Leon chose to live with KAT. We’ll see how it goes.
What target? Zubac.. the Clippers took a rebuilding package the Knicks couldn’t top
Cam Thomas hitting the buyout market as a 24 year old who averaged 24 PPG on reasonably efficient shooting a year ago is pretty insane!
I see the Knicks gave up a 26 second rounder Per James Edwards. They have 3 ..if it’s one in the 50s fine.
Alan, I don’t get that. When it seemed like we were only gaining $100,000 in second apron space with Dalen Terry, it was said that the signing date move from April 2 to March 26. It would seem that gaining 10X that amount would move the cap date a lot closer to today, no?
I think standing pat is swinging for the fences.
Small scoring guards have had a bad deadline
yeah by my math they have enough cushion to sign someone immediately.
My bad, Z-man. I missed this:
In that case, I suspect we will be near the front of the line for buyout guys. Now that we’ve added another ballhandler (albeit while knowing Deuce is out til the playoffs), would people rather sign a big or a wing? And/or, which of the three groupings are most likely to offer value on the buyout market?
In that case..let me FINALLY grade the Knicks at the trade deadline
F.O. COOKIN!! I give Leon & crew a solid A-minus. Had they been able to move Dadiet for a cheap big, I’d give em an A-plus. Landing Alvarado and extra cap space to sign a player now as opposed to the end of the season when we had barely any wiggle room is to be commended. Leon’s 2nd best hire as a Knick executive is definitely hiring Brock Aller. And that’s second to “hiring” Brunson on team friendly deals
I have to say though… that price in picks + Mathurin that Indy paid for Zubac makes me want to extend Mitch now… i don’t know how much cap space is lying around this summer but we could get Hartenstein-d.
A PF who can get us 8 and 4 in ~15 minutes off the bench with efficient scoring and can maybe hit 3s at a 36 or 37 percent clip, please. Do they exist on the current market? We just need one.
Good deadline for us. Truly impressive to turn Yabu and a future second into Alvarado and room for a buyout player.
Which one? I think a big, if only because I don’t trust Mitch’s ankles. Without him we may not win a championship, but we still have KAT, so it’s still possible. We lose OG, and there is no replacement, and we don’t have a reasonable chance at a championship.
So I say The East is big, man ™
Doesn’t seem that way to me. Like EB said, they traded him for a coin flip.
And boy do we really need them to lose that coin flip. There’s a 50% chance they end up with a top 4 pick and Zubac.
Smart fucking team. Really hard to compete against the front offices in Boston and Indiana.
There’s is no chance of that. We can match any offer (we could not in the iHart situation for rules). We’ll be going over the second apron to sign him, but if this group goes to the Finals and Mitch remains healthy, it’s the right choice.
I’m betting we use the 15th spot on McCullar
We can’t, though. We had iHart’s Early Bird rights, which put a limit on how much we could pay him. We have Mitch’s full Bird rights. We could max him if we really wanted to. The only risk is us going into the second apron, but 1)We might do that anyway, and 2)I suspect the plan is to move at least one of our higher-salaried guys this summer, if not multiple, so we don’t get stuck in the aprons long enough for it to become punitive.
No worries, Alan!
I think it would make zero sense to sign another small PG now (say, Chris Paul). However, a bigger combo but PG-heavy guard type could work. (like Delon Wright but better).
But my preference is for either a better 3-and-D big wing for OG insurance than Mo or better Mitch insurance than Huk. I’m pretty confident that Deuce will be back in time for playoffs, so I’d tend to go bigger.
With Deuce on the mend, and if we waive Clarkson…is the appeal of not having to move enough for Thomas?
Is there any chance that if we buy out Clarkson and wait a bit before signing a buyout guy by stringing along 10-day deals, that we could add 2 players, meaning a new guy plus a Clarkson replacement? Doesn’t seem likely to be worth missing out on first dibs, but just a thought…
TNFH I know you are intrigued by Cam Thomas, but my strong suspicion is that he is pretty much uncoachable, which is why the Nets have no interest in keeping him or couldn’t get anything for him.
Minor point but not inconsequential- Leon doing well by Yabu.
Yet Leon (for all his foibles) took them from a laughing stock to the ECF and 2nd in the East this season in 5 years.
Yeah and Trajan Langdon took the Pistons from the worst team in the NBA to the 2nd best record in the league in just 15 months.
And Leon took the knicks to the 2nd round of the playoffs by the end of his third full season with us.
Are you really doing this?
I would hate to be the son of a parent, however I strived and succeeded, would have his first reflex to show how someone was better than me.
It helps to inherit Cade Cunningham as your franchise foundation, but, sure, Leon sucks compared to him!
Also, Detroit hasn’t done shit yet. Oh wow! They’re first in the East! So was Cleveland last year and look at them now.
Most of us agree on the job that Leon has done, we just filter the message through our own personality.
re: pickups such as Cam Thomas — i think we saw earlier this month how fragile this team’s chemistry can be. I would stay far away from young chuckers that feel like they need to prove themselves for their next contract.
No market for Ja.
The conventional wisdom is that the Bucks wanted to guage the market for Giannis now but didn’t pull the trigger because they know they can get more for him in the off season when some picks open up for teams that are interested. That all seems logical. But I have a sneaking suspicion Giannis still wants NY, NY couldn’t work out a 3 team deal that made sense for everyone and the Knicks are going to make their best play for him after they see what this team does in the playoffs. I’d say there’s a pretty decent probability Giannis is a Knick next year. I am partly basing that on accuracy of reports he initially requested the Knicks. Guys like Giannis usually get what they want. I see him not being traded as a huge plus for NY. Miami is appealing for the weather and no income taxes but they have a less finished team even if they can offer more picks.
^ That is literally all I said about Leon today.
I’m just very impressed with what Indiana did. There’s three top tier prospects in this draft and they still have a 50% chance of getting one. If the coin flip goes their way, they will have stolen Ivica Zubac for hardly anything. At worst, if the flip doesn’t go their way, they’ll have paid market price. It’s hard to compete with that kind of competence. These are the same guys who stole Siakim and Halliburton, and swindled the Pelicans during the NBA finals to get their pick back when they knew Halliburton was playing with fire. It’s top tier work.
It makes no sense to me why the Clippers wouldn’t have just waited til after the lottery.
This draft is way more than 3 elite prospects . Caleb Wilson , Kingston Flemings , Keaton Wagler alll look great
I’m not sure about the accuracy, but I read that at least one interested team requested pick compensation to take him.
It’s incredible how much his stock has fallen. Some of it is specific to behavior and injuries setting him back, but we saw the same thing with Trae. I think the value of certain Gs is falling.
I don’t like either one of them, but I suspect both are going to play much better once they are happy on a new team. Ja should just bite the bullet, play his ass off, increase his value and then go down to Miami after we sign Giannis.
The Dillon Jones game forthcoming!!!
I was literally just going to ask that before I saw that you posted that, Alan. I’d love to have Alvie for both of this weekend’s very tough games. I imagine he’ll be available on Sunday at Boston, but I don’t know what the chances are that we might have him in Detroit.
I always get nervous until things are “official”—it gives me the heebie-jeebies, and reminds me of the other night when we “won” the game at the end of the first overtime…….and then didn’t.
By the way, ESPN.com has Alvie at second on the PG depth chart ahead of Kolek. That’s probably about right?
According to spotrac, we now have $1,148,358 in cap space below the 2nd apron.
The standard minimum salary for cap purposes is $2,296,274.
According to my calculations, if we signed a player now, it would cost a pro-rated amount of that minimum figure times 66/174 (days remaining over total days) which comes out to $871,000.
That amount decreases by $13,197 a day (might be more if it’s a 10+ year player, but I’m not sure.)
So if we signed someone today, we’d have $277,358 left over. That means we can not only sign someone today, but have enough left over to waive someone like Clarkson to create a roster spot and then sign a vet’s min player for 21 days of service, which means by around March 22. And every day we wait to sign a player now will push the date we can sign another one up one day. Meaning, if we signed someone tomorrow, we can sign a second on March 21, if we wait until Saturday, then March 20 and so on.
Asking the more cap-savvy guys: is this correct?
good, rest for this detroit matchup…give the bench some more meaningful run…
one point of appreciation for our recent play – our young guys off the bench run hard…fifty fifty balls all day long…
we need some larger sized physicality though besides for mitch…don’t seem like huk’s game, yet…jemison the third maybe…
Yabu is going to waive his player option and go overseas after the season
Guess he didn’t like the Knicks enough to tell them that
Re: Cam Thomas, for those of you like me who were curious as to why he was simply waived, it turns out that since he’s on a QO deal he has a no-trade clause
clarkson has got to go, after him josh and KAT are then the old men on the team…that’s good roster construction…
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@KCJHoop
reality hits hard…like a super sweet french pastry…
Me too.
I’m not a “huge” Zubac fan, but they needed someone to replace Turner, he’s good and didn’t give up anything very important to their team. Some of the guys on Indiana probably aren’t going to look as good in another system with less running anyway. They are positioned extremely well for next year and even better over the long term as long as Hally is the same player when he returns. Tanking pays when you have key players hurt.
well bye…save roster money now and later…
The cost for Zubac is at minimum two unprotected firsts, and Mathurin, who is 23 and shown glimpses of being very good, including killing it in last year’s playoffs. There’s also a 50-50 chance that the Pacers lose out on a top-5 pick in a loaded lottery.
I guess it’s a good trade if Zubac is your thing, but it seems to me that you could have gotten a player of his caliber for sure in this draft, and not given up two unprotected firsts in both 2029 and 2031. Who knows how Hali and Siakam will age?
I LOLed the hiring of Leon Rose, architect of the Carmelo Trade, The Bargnani trade, the Eddy Curry contract, and the Mega Max Melo, more than anybody. The guy seems to have done excellent work in an impossible job. Team is actually good now, and hope, for those that haven’t had it quashed by the boot of Dolan, is high. I didn’t see it coming.
That Yabu agreed to drop his player option made the Bulls trade make a whole lot more sense.
The Knicks had to know that too. I thought some of the trade was about greater flexibility for NY next year. Now I don’t know what Chicago was thinking. I thought they wanted to take a look at Yabu and keep him for another year. They must not have liked Terry at all because he only had one year also.
I’m not gonna do the math but that seems basically right
All minimums are 2 year vet minimums for cap purposes, except for 2nd rd rookies who cost less.
The vets do get paid more in the real world.
That seems like a really shortsighted move by Yabu. He’s not going to get that kind of money overseas, is he?
Thanks EB, so that’s pretty sweet work, not only has Leon replaced Yabu with a rotation-level player, but he freed up enough cap space to be at the front of the buyout line and to waive a player to pick up another guy at positional need prior to the playoffs. I, for one, am pretty much completely out on Clarkson, and maybe he wants to be bought out, so knowing that his roster spot can be replaced in late March is sort of comforting. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if they just give McCullar the nod in March.
he has a really good handle on the agent and player perspective thing…people seem to like being around him, and he knows how to keep fairly quiet in such a noisy place…
plus the whole really successful person before he took this job…
owner’s ideal gm, mind costs, produce a good product – stay out of the news for weird negative shit…yeah that last one has been most welcome…got to be careful who you let in the building…leon’s done well at that…especially appreciate a competent and independent med staff…
I don’t like Mathurin much, but he’s young.
I don’t think they wanted to rebuild from scratch. I think they wanted to tank while Hali was hurt and had no C, replace Turner now or in the off season, be very competitve again next year and add a top lottery player for the long term that might help next year. If they drafted a young player at C, it’s a process again. I don’t think they view those picks as having a ton of value unless all hell breaks loose on the injury front. They see themselves as fighting the Knicks in coming years along with Detroit, Miami (who will do something with their picks), and others.
He inhereted young Cunningham/Duren/Thompson which made his job infinitely easier. Still, a fine job, though but Red on Roundball isn’t concerned 🙂
From 24-26 (before Langdon and after Langdon) Cunningham/Duren and Thompson’s BPM = 0.03/5.9, -.01/3.6 and -2.2/2.2!
He brought in some UFAs that were vets, but the heavy lifting of the core of this team was done well before he arrived.
If we can find a playable player at PF and get healthy for the playoffs, I like this team a lot more today than I did yesterday. You won’t hear me complaining about needing a legit PG that can defend anymore. If it doesn’t work, so be it. They got the right player in my mind.
As much as I hate to think it, let alone say it, if Alvarado works out well and we keep him it would free us to include Kolek in a trade or as part of a big trade in the summer. I think there has to be some teams that need PG help that would view him postively.
watched the espn deadline show today…they were looking back at all the stuff that had happened recently, and the big take away from a couple of people there was how great a squad the washington wizards would have next season…
that made very little to exactly zero sense, ’til I remembered this…only that can explain a conclusion like that…
“I LOLed the hiring of Leon Rose, architect of the Carmelo Trade, The Bargnani trade, the Eddy Curry contract, and the Mega Max Melo, more than anybody.”
I mean, repeatedly (and repeatedly) fleecing the Knick in ways that helped make his clients rich is some pretty impressive work. He did exactly what he was paid to do at the highest level. I wasn’t sure if it would translate to the other side, but not very surprised that it has.
Yeah, I thought the Wolves would make a pay for him, given he’s a distressed asset and equipment likely have cost a lot. But I guess they intend for Ant to initiate and really need two-way players around him instead of a genuine PG. Ayo is a really good move for them.
Swifty, Bernie, Bob… that Langdon line went way over your heads.
It was fun to watch you guys explain why it’s stupid to give a GM credit for the improvement of the players he inherited, though.
He appears just OVER the NBA. It really is kind of pathetic, honestly. “I just want to go eat cheese and not have to play too hard in my home country.”
Talking about who can play in the next couple of games, what about Vucevic? Will he be available for Boston against us on Sunday?
From the Athletic:
Somehow I’d forgotten about Chicago and was briefly thinking it was Yabu for Jose. Which made me wonder if the Pels thought that they could put Yabu on Zion’s dietary and workout plans; or would Zion take one look and be like, “I want what HE’S having!”
Alas, different timeline, we’ll never know.
Take the L and make a tactical retreat.
A lineup with Alvarado, Hart and Mitch will be fun to watch.
Julius Randle went from an albatross contract to an all NBA player once Leon and Thibs came aboard. But I guess that was all because of the hard work Julius did while Cunningham was only got better bc of the GM that they hired.
I’m not taking the L on this one lol
Bob I’ve already spent your lunch money, you’re just too slow to figure out what happened.
And nobody is saying Indiana and Detroit don’t have good GM’s. But this “oh wow are the Knicks, we can’t compete” schtick is sad.
We’ve made the playoffs every year but one since Leon took over. Been to the second round three years in a row, conference finals for the first time in 25 years and are about to have our third 50 plus win season. And barring something by crazy we should be right in the mix next year.
This is what a successful rebuild looks like!
Well that’s good news. That pick is gonna suck.
It’ll probably end up back here anyway after Leon trades down by 1 pick for 20 consecutive picks.
They’re pretty sad to see Alvarado go down here.
If that’s the 2026 pick it’s a solid move
In terms of bad management, this is fairly hair-raising (from ESPN):
“Being in the middle is what we don’t want to do,” Karnisovas told reporters after Thursday’s deadline. “We’ve seen that for the past four years, and we want to change that.”
The Bulls deconstructed their roster in just a few days leading up to the deadline, trading away top scorer Coby White, leading rebounder Nikola Vucevic, key reserves Ayo Dosunmu and Kevin Huerter and former draft picks Dalen Terry and Julian Phillips.
In exchange, the Bulls added a bevy of guards — Jaden Ivey, Rob Dillingham, Collin Sexton and Anfernee Simons — along with Leonard Miller, Nick Richards, Guerschon Yabusele and nine second-round picks.
Oh yeah, they got a WHOLE lot better…!
He’s saying they’re finally tanking.
Yabu’s already playing and playing pretty well, wtf.
Somehow Yabu made it Toronto and had a very good first half for the Bulls. Good for him!
See…it was brown’s scheme holding him back.
Of course he is… I’m going with Toronto doesn’t have a C
https://x.com/KnicksMSGN/status/2019478643748032846?s=20
Wizards up 11 at end of 3rd quarter in Detroit.
Who’s this guy Yabusele on the bulls. Hes exactly who we should sign in the off season and he’s available.
On a side note, we now have two shots at a top 35 draft pick. I just started perusing the lists, and the first thing that jumped out at me is the lack of international players in the first round, especially in the top-20.
I’m guessing this is at least a little bit deceptive, as now that players can “get paid” in the NCAA, maybe more international players are coming over, or alternatively, not going overseas. Dame Sarr was born in Italy, Neoklis Avdalas is from Greece, etc.
Australia/NZ league seems to have a couple of highly ranked prospects: Karim Lopez and Dash Daniels, but beyond that, not much.
I guess I’m wondering whether there will be a possible market inefficiency that makes overseas players slide more than they should because of NCAA hype overshadowing them. Especially since we are picking(!) in the 20’s and low 30’s.
Hes awesome
https://x.com/sny_knicks/status/2019264012618277179?s=20
What’s up with Duren? He get hurt or something?
That’s the first time I’ve felt any optimism about KAT in 2 months. Take him under your wing, Mitch.
“What’s up with Duren? He get hurt or something?”
Nothing definitive, didn’t return after halftime with “knee soreness”.
Okay… that sucks. Let’s Tonya Harding this shit tomorrow.
That’s a horrible home loss for the Pistons, and they didn’t really rest anyone unless you consider Duren. They’ll be pissed tomorrow, but so will we. Should be a great game!
Mo Diawara is shooting 39.6% from deep on 7.4 attempts/36.
Still only about 50 3PAs, but it’s so encouraging.
I think you mean let’s Gillooly this shit, Clarence. To Tonya would involve crying on the court bc our shoelaces came untied.
Number of games it took Yabu to surpass his Knick game highs in PTS, REBS, and ASTS: 1
Seeing Yabu get 15/11 off the bench with 3 of 6 from behind the arc is ruining all the good vibes from getting Alvie. Someone please talk me off the ledge.
And seriously, how did he do that on the *same day* he got traded?!? Maybe we can use Alvie in Detroit tomorrow night, after all.
Pistonblogger’s version of Big Blue Al – “Little Red Mike”:
“this is the worst loss of the season “
Hornetz are actually one of the most interesting teams in league at the moment
You never, “gilooly” Hubert. You convince some dumb smooth brain random stranger to peacefully mount an insurrection on your behalf against someone else’s kneecap. Then you show up and you win the trials.
charlotte is playing really well right now…they look like a good team…
it’s amazing how quickly things have evened out between the eastern and western conference…
The rookie Kon is pretty good
Lamelo still chucks way too much for a bad shooter
Welcome, Latavious! OAKAAK!! 😀
Latavious, MY MAN!
The Bulls still lost though.
So those stats are meaningless.
They really do have a bizarre fetish for picking up those old, random players
Latavius is 6’8″, 230 lbs. The quintessential power forward you’ve all been thirsting for. He’s also half a decade younger than LeBron.
Charlotte just defeated Houston. I think the East is getting tougher.
Brown seasoning the young guys is one of my favorite parts of this season. Sure they’re not ready but plenty of cooking yet to be done before the party starts.
Love the Alvarado pick-up. Leon (and NY) seems to have a thing for scrappy underdog guards.
Nice Video on Jose: link
I fucking love Mitch. His interview with KAT, his comment about the Mitchell steal. I love guys with just a little slant to them, just is a bit different. I don’t know if the Knicks can max him given his injury issues, but lord I hope they can keep him. The chemistry with KAT was very cool
Okay, I like Alvarado a lot. I can get behind an underdog