Big Cuz 15
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As bad as Thomas and Reef are playing right now, I still think you'd have an easier time trading them than you would trading Stephon Marbury. Nobody wants him. So if you make this trade, you are pretty much guaranteeing an expensive buyout situation (unless you actually want Marbury on your team which I think would be a disaster both in terms of on-court play and off-court team chemisty). It would probably be cheaper to buy out Thomas and Reef than Marbury, so if that's the idea why make the trade at all? Artest is too good of a player to be unloaded in a salary dump. Especially when he's got a bargain contract with an opt out after this year. I think Balkman is a solid player, but he's not a starter. If we wanted Randolph Morris we could have offered him a contract when he was a free agent like any other team in the league. Artest for David Lee is the only Knicks deal that makes sense for us. If someone wants to trade a pick for the privelage of adding Shareef or Thomas to their roster, great. Otherwise let them sit on the bench until they earn themselves either playing time or a buy out.
steph is here and next year. big whoop if he is unhappy. it just means that we'll lose more games. not like we're winning anyway. remember when steph was unloaded to the knicks for scraps? it worked out pretty well for the suns if you ask me. they sucked for that year but then bounced back.
we unload 3 bad contracts for 1 that is 2 years long. if we look to the future and see that we will gain some high lottery picks, a ridiculous amount of capspace to sign some big name free agents. we will be in awesome position. instead we're worrying about getting equal value for a ticking timebomb, a undersized power forward w/ a terrible attitude and a PF that is clearly not as valuable as ppl make him out to be. bring on steph and those 2 young forward prospects.
