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4 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2026.07.06)”
Good morning, all.
ess-dog, I tend to agree with you, but this is not a great list:
I only want free agent 3rd centers who have legit playoff experience under their belts, so in order:
1. Looney
2. Kleber
3. K. Love
4. maybe Plumlee or Olynyk
This would have been a great list maybe two years ago. Don’t get me wrong; I get your desire to get someone with playoff experience. So, yeah, Drum doesn’t have a lot of *playoff* experience (bet he’d love to get some with us, though), but even at only 32 years of age he has almost 1,000 games of experience under his belt…….so I guess I kind of feel that that makes up for it. We already have him, so I’d like to get a younger guy—Cisse, Diabate, Matkovic, etc.—in here to see what our culture can do with them/for them. He’s much maligned, but quite honestly I wouldn’t mind seeing if we could get our hands on Nurkic (15/14/7 per 36 last season, with .503/.549/.352 shooting splits in 26 minutes per game), either. Correct: he is not great at free throws, but still twice as good as Mitch…….and he can hit a 3 here or there, just like Drum.
I know the Jazz just lost Kessler, but they still have JJJ, Filipowski, and even Markkanen can play center in a pinch, along with Jaxson Hayes, Oscar Tshiebwe, and Kevin Love. Are they going to want to pay *all* those guys?
ptmilo.
I’m going to take the opposite position, partly because that’s what I like to do around here. 😉 I think complexity is one of the problems. They are trying to solve too many problems with too complex a set of rules and that’s what is creating those little “whack a mole” issues.
There are 4 main issues.
1. Teams should be retain their best players without a set of complex rules making the decisions more difficult. There’s no way retaining Mitch should be an issue in part because of crazy rules about being over the apron X number of years, future draft picks etc.. Whoever thought that was good idea should be in a new career.
2. The best players should be able to move if they want to. The pay gap between what the current team and another team can offer should be enough to incentivize staying, but not so much that players never move.
3. There’s should be a soft cap with taxes so smaller market teams aren’t at a huge disadvantage and can still compete.
4. The player share should be x%.
You should br able to fit all the rules pertaining to that in a document a few pages long that any player or fan can understand.
It won’t be perfect. There are sure to be smaller issues that pop up and people will be tempted to add of all kinds of complex rules to address every possible litte thing. That’s the mistake. When people are making their careers trying to understand the rules because other very smart people either either can’t or don’t want to bother, that’s SCREAMING that what you are doing is probably wrong.
This last CBA reminded me of the kinds of bills that get thrown on Senate and Congress desks that half of them never reads and most don’t understand.
The only problem with this argument is Mitch wasn’t one of the Knick’s best players; sixth or seventh best at best.
The CBA was carefully negotiated so the big market teams couldn’t attract and hoard excessive talent. If you have two or three extremely well paid players, it will be difficult to fill your roster with anything than low scale young player or min level vets.
Your 6-9 guys can’t be mid level types if you have highly paid starters. That is a feature, not a glitch of the system.
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