WNY_Knickfan
Benchwarmer
Lin's deal does have an effect on our cap after this year his balloon salary in year 3 might essentially effect us from making any major moves as all we would have is this 3mil mle and draft picks or lack there of
I'm using a cell phone right now but from my understanding if we match there is no way we can compete outside of this year as our ability to effectively add role players will be shot, what if Lin is not the answer at PG and he flops, then we have a huge deal deep in the luxury tax and no room to grow
Felton, Kidd and Prigioni should get the job done, if we maintain Lin I'll be fine with that but realistically its a big risk
Alot of you aren't realizing it, but Lin really doesn't have a big effect, Grunwald is smart and is doing his job. Lin or no Lin, we are pretty well handcuffed for 3 years, being only able to get vet mins unless we pull of a trade, this is pretty much our team to try to win with for 3 years, but don't sweat the flexibility, these deals expire in 3 years not by chance. We'll have amazing expirings for trades, and guys like Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving will be coming out of their contracts then, so we try to win with these guys then in theory reload, Love in for Amare, Kyrie in for Lin, realize that's optimistic but we have a good core for 3 years then will have strong flexibility to replace old guys with younger ones towards the end of that run