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Re: Trade Assets - Expiring Contracts
« Reply #30 on: June 02, 2009, 02:42:05 PM »

Offline Moranis

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I had an idea I was discussing with Roy that I'll just dump into this thread too. 

What's New York's situation like?  If they resign David Lee how much cap room are they looking at in the summer of 2010 (where the rumor has been that Bron, Wade and Bosh could all decide to come play there)?  Eddie Curry's 10 mil is still a small problem, right?  How badly do they want to get rid of Eddie Curry's 10 mil?  Bad enough to give up the #8 pick in order to dump Curry for 10 mil in 2010 expirings?

Offer them Scal, Tony, Eddie, Pruitt, Giddens and Walker (all expiring) for Curry (who we can move next offseason), Gallinari and the #8 pick

Then the Knicks can give David Lee his money and still have enough money to probably sign 3 max contract guys in 2010.


How badly do we want the #8 pick? These are the #8 picks since the year 2000: Crawford, Diop, Wilcox, Ford, Araujo, Frye, Gay, Wright, and Alexander. Thus far, Wright and Alexander have been busts. Araujo was never a NBA talent. No one really knows how or why he was picked so high. Wilcox and Frye are end of the bench players. Diop has been a decent backup sometimes. Ford is a pretty good point guard, but he's always hurt. The only players you can classify as "good" are Crawford and Gay. My point is, historically, the #8 pick guarantees squat. Even if we were lucky enough to get a good player--like a Gay--he might not even contribute his first year. I don't think the potential reward of finding a good player at #8, which historically seems hard to do, is worth swallowing Curry's contract and attitude. I do, however, like the creativity.
Here are the #9 and #10 picks since 2000 (bold = star, italics = competent/future star)
Pryzbilla - Dooling
Rodney White - J. Johnson
Amare - C. Butler
Sweetney - J. Hayes
AI 2 - L. Jackson
Diogu - Bynum
O'Byrant - Sene
Noah - Hawes
Augustin - B. Lopez

Just because teams miss on 8 doesn't mean there isn't value in having that pick. 
2025 Historical Draft - Cleveland Cavaliers - 1st pick

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