New York Knicks
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</td><td valign="top">Larry Hughes
Salary: $12,827,676
Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 7.7
REB: 3.0
AST: 0.7
PER: 13.74
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</td><td valign="top">Tyrus Thomas
Salary: $3,749,880
Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 7.1
REB: 6.0
AST: 0.8
PER: 9.51
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Chicago Bulls
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</td><td valign="top">Zach Randolph
Salary: $14,666,667
Years Remaining: 3
PTS: 20.5
REB: 12.5
AST: 1.4
PER: 20.40</td></tr></tbody></table>
Z Bo's playing like mad. Best time to trade. Sad, but excruciatingly true and necessary. Hughes is expendable and potentially re-packaged in a Curry and or Lee trade or sold off for a future role player. Thomas coulde be a sweet fit in Mike D's system. He flies and can run the floor well from rebound/block to a finish or clean up on the break.
Whether the Bulls would bite depends on their desire for immediate success.
Knicks incoming:
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</td><td valign="top">Al Harrington
Salary: $9,226,250
Years Remaining: 1
PTS: 12.4
REB: 5.6
AST: 2.0
PER: 9.80
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</td><td valign="top">Marco Belinelli
Salary: $1,446,720
Years Remaining: 2
PTS: 2.9
REB: 0.4
AST: 0.1
PER: 14.01</td></tr></tbody></table>
GS incoming:
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</td><td valign="top">Eddy Curry
Salary: $9,723,983
Years Remaining: 2
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</td><td valign="top">David Lee
Salary: $1,788,033
Years Remaining: 1
PTS: 11.3
REB: 6.6
AST: 1.9
PER: 13.68</td></tr></tbody></table>
Harrington and Thomas would combine nicely. Perhaps a slight conflict. Thomas can be really good. Harrington apparently loves a bit of a whinge, but after this trade he'd play a solid 35mins/. Belinilli can be dogs with Bargnani until he can be shipped.
Lee and fats Curry are inevitabely leaving. Lee should be swapped asap before things become imminently worse off and we are stuck again. That's an assumption I know but I'm sticking to it.
All contracts are beneficial for 2010.
Whether or not this is going to be a playoff season seems unlikely with the current squad. I was all for Lee initially this year and albite not giving him a chance, I think we've seen his best.
Knicks 2010.
Genius is eternal patience.