Yahoo: Knicks coveting Kings' Dalembert? (Yahoo! Sports)

[Revrag]

The New York Knicks traded away 7-1 Russian rookie center Timofey Mozgov in the Carmelo Anthony deal and were...

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[Sac.1989]

Were going to have to fight for him to keep him. The one thing in our favor is i dont feel hes a big lights guy. As long as what we offer is up there we'll be fine. Expect a lot of interest though. Were going to have to pay to keep him

 

[Arkitect]

We can still offer him more than any other team. Though I really do not want to overpay for him.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

The Knicks already have $60M in committed salary next year. Let's assume the CBA rules stay about the same. The best they could offer him outright would be an MLE (gee, think we could beat that?) Or, they could try to put together a sign-and-trade. Let's assume they want to do a sign-and-trade for $8M. They'd have to send us at least $6.3M back in that scenario. Assuming that they're not going to send us Amare or Carmelo, and that we wouldn't accept a really expensive one-year rental of Billups, there's not much left. The smallest deal that could possibly work and have any player value in it for us would be Landry Fields, Turiaf, and Balkman. That would allow us to get one year of Landry Fields - without the ability to extend him or make him a restricted free agent - and two guys who are useless to us.

I'm not worried about the Knicks getting Dalembert unless the new CBA says "the Knicks get to spend as much money as they want".

 

[Glenn]

THIS is where Bird rights come to our advantage and this is why Bird rights exist. The idea is to keep players stable on a team and in this case, it's us. I don't understand why a Knicks' writer would have info that says Sammy would come there unless Sammy's agent is pumping up the bidding which is his job. As far as I know, Dally is happy here although the Haitian population may be lacking.