Knicks Targeting Raptors' Ajinca + Cavs' Parker

The Knicks continue beating the bushes for a big man and have placed Toronto?s young 7-2 French center Alexis Ajinca among their targets.

Ajinca ? who began last season with Dallas, even starting two games ? is strictly a reserve and still needs to work on his body with his skinny build. But if Toronto passes, the Knicks could take a flyer on Ajinca with a one-year deal for a minimum-range salary.

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It isn?t surprising Mike D?Antoni?s Knicks have interest in Ajinca because of his European offensive style, as he can shoot the 3-pointer. But he also can rebound and can be an athletic shot-blocker. He?s only 23 and the Knicks need to stockpile size.

However, one NBA scout deemed him as too raw to make a definite impact this season, though thought his future upside could be similar to Samuel Dalembert, if Ajinca shows a better work ethic.

The Knicks would like to add another veteran defensive center to start and are waiting on the likes of Kurt Thomas, Aaron Gray and Jeff Foster. There has been a terrific amount of debate in the organization on Kwame Brown, but an NBA source says they?ve lost interest despite an initial push.

Ajinca, a native of Saint Etienne, France, played 34 games last season between Dallas and Toronto, which traded for him. Ajinca was drafted 20th by the Bobcats in 2008.

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The Knicks? interest in Ajinca appears to have given them pause to offering their second-rounder Jerome Jordan a contract. Jordan, a low-post center unlike Ajinca, is in Slovenia but wants a trade if he is not invited to training camp Friday and offered a deal.

If Ajinca signs, it would mark the first time an NBA franchise has two French centers on the roster. Ronny Turiaf is French and both are clients of agent Mark Bartelstein. Free agency officially begins Friday, as do the opening of camps, but agents have been allowed to talk to teams since Thursday.

The Knicks, meanwhile, are in the hunt for veteran small forwards Grant Hill and Cleveland?s Anthony Parker, who is more attainable. Hill is leaning toward staying in Phoenix.

They plan on re-signing Jared Jeffries, feeling his brief late-season tenure was not a fair measure. However, a league source said the Nets have also made a Jeffries inquiry.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knick...#ixzz1fXpuGaIr

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Ajinca, eh? He's got the height we so desperately need, seems to have a reasonable fundamental base by all reports, but on DraftExpress, they had this to say:

D-League Showcase: Day Two
January 6, 2010
Any time Alexis Ajinca steps onto the floor, it is hard not to take notice. Towering above most D-League post players, Ajinca has packed on some weight to his upper-body, but remains very skinny, especially in his lower body. His tremendous wingspan allow him to block shots at a high rate, but his fundamentals down low leave a lot to be desired, and his lack of bulk allows more aggressive post players to push him beneath the rim and neutralize his size advantage.

From DraftExpress.com http://www.draftexpress.com#ixzz1fa1dmhiV
http://www.draftexpress.com

That was almost 2 years ago, mind you.

Looks like he's supplanted Jerome Jordan as the 'who else are we gonna get' center.

Only 225 pounds at 7'1" though. That's lithe!

I get the interest in Ajinca, but Parker? That's a mystery to me. Why, when we have 3 SGs - Shump (/PG), TD and Fields, would we pursue Parker?

Is this indicative of a ploy to trade some of our other players?

Wow...Very interesting. Nice find Crazy.

I DO NOT want Jeffries back under any circumstances; as for Parker, I could take him or leave him. I know for a fact that we could get better players than both of these guys that are younger, more skilled with higher upside for far less money.. BUT this guy Ajinca's damn intriguing boy..Yeah he still might be a little thin but he's skilled..Kinda reminds me of Terry Mills, maybe with better all-around skills (defense, specifically shot-blocking -- Mills wasn't much of a shot-blocker in his day). Supposedly Ajinca's put on some more weight -- I think he's up from the 220 lbs or so when he entered the league a few yrs ago..Wikipedia has him at 7'2" 248 lbs! He was never that big before so you figure those numbers gotta be current...That's big --- and with his budding skillset...I say go get him..No brainer. As long as he isn't a restricted FA, you figure he'd rather come here than stay in Toronto -- we have so much more to offer..Stay there and flounder along playing for nothing or come here and compete for a championship..If there's room for Parker on a 1-yr deal, OK, go get him too. He can still shoot it...But please, no Jared Jeffries!! I mean they gotta be kidding me with their devotion to this fool..Outside of his ability to flop and draw a charge here & there, dude brings absolutely nothing else to the table..I mean Jesus, WTF bro...You want a backup big -- call up Jeff Adrien's agent, Sean Williams' agent and call it a day already..Jared Jeffries?!? Lmao..F outta here with this guy already, seriously.

finestrg said:

Wow...Very interesting. Nice find Crazy.

I DO NOT want Jeffries back under any circumstances; as for Parker, I could take him or leave him. I know for a fact that we could get better players than both of these guys that are younger, more skilled with higher upside for far less money.. BUT this guy Ajinca's damn intriguing boy..Yeah he still might be a little thin but he's skilled..Kinda reminds me of Terry Mills, maybe with better all-around skills (defense, specifically shot-blocking -- Mills wasn't much of a shot-blocker in his day). Supposedly Ajinca's put on some more weight -- I think he's up from the 220 lbs or so when he entered the league a few yrs ago..Wikipedia has him at 7'2" 248 lbs! He was never that big before so you figure those numbers gotta be current...That's big --- and with his budding skillset...I say go get him..No brainer. As long as he isn't a restricted FA, you figure he'd rather come here than stay in Toronto -- we have so much more to offer..Stay there and flounder along playing for nothing or come here and compete for a championship..If there's room for Parker on a 1-yr deal, OK, go get him too. He can still shoot it...But please, no Jared Jeffries!! I mean they gotta be kidding me with their devotion to this fool..Outside of his ability to flop and draw a charge here & there, dude brings absolutely nothing else to the table..I mean Jesus, WTF bro...You want a backup big -- call up Jeff Adrien's agent, Sean Williams' agent and call it a day already..Jared Jeffries?!? Lmao..F outta here with this guy already, seriously.

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7'2" + 248. Sounds alright. Wikipoodia though.

All I know about his salary status is that he's on the Craptors' cap holds @ $2,935,680. He has more NBA experience than Jerome Jordan, so I'd take his height in addition to that over him.

Parker seems like a waste of time, but according to RealGM, Shawne Williams has been receiving some real interest around the Eastern Conference, and may be offered something more to his liking. The Bulls, in particular, are interested apparently. It may be a backup plan for losing our best spot sniper in D'Antoni's 'spread offense'.

Hey maybe man.

See, I knew Shawne Williams would be keeping all his options open. He's been saying all the right things about wanting to come back starting weeks ago..And he's even been working out with STAT in Florida for weeks...At the end of the day though, money talks for most of these guys..There's a damn good chance that off his productive yr last season, he could get offers higher than what we are willing and able to pay. I'd go overseas and contact the agents of Jamelle Horne and Ryan Wittman for this 3-pt specialist role, but that's me..Obviously, they like Anthony Parker..We'll see what happens.

Here's another clip of Alexis Ajinca from youtube showing off his shot-blocking prowess and his athleticism down low. I like this kid's skills. I think we should grab him while we have the chance:

Here's another clip of a private workout Ajinca had for some team a few years ago, maybe Charlotte (they drafted him in '08, 20th overall). The video's a little fuzzy so it's hard to see who he's working out against (is that little guard Nate Rob?)..Regardless, you can't miss Ajinca. I realize everyone's only going about 50% here but still...Shows off almost the whole package -- post skills, perimeter touch, shot-blocking, puts in on the floor, left hand..Really nice. That coach running the workout sure sounded impressed.

Berman doesn't know anything about what's happening around the franchise and whom are we targeting this offseason. He doesn't know any anonymous insiders within the organization or fallow market moves. Today you're posting player X could be a nice addition to our roster, tomorrow you're reading a Berman's article where he goes "the Knicks have X on their radar, according to our source close to the situation", happened several times already.
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At the end of the day you cant teach size so if we pick him up and start him and give him 24-30 minutes he better give us 8pts, 10rebs and 2blks while staying out of foul trouble if we get that then we're fine as far as Parker goes, NO lets roll with Billups, Fields, Shumpert and Douglas at this point we need to focus on a Center(Ajinca), Combo Forward(Williams) and a back up 4(maybe Carl Landry on a 1yr MLE), 3rd PG(Hansbrough)

Ajinca/Turiaf/Jordan/Harrelson
Stoudemire/Landry
Anthony/Williams/Brown
Fields/Douglas/Walker
Billups/Shumpert/Hansbrough

Are we great, are we deep, No but we can get things done with this team

CA7 said:

At the end of the day you cant teach size so if we pick him up and start him and give him 24-30 minutes he better give us 8pts, 10rebs and 2blks while staying out of foul trouble if we get that then we're fine as far as Parker goes, NO lets roll with Billups, Fields, Shumpert and Douglas at this point we need to focus on a Center(Ajinca), Combo Forward(Williams) and a back up 4(maybe Carl Landry on a 1yr MLE), 3rd PG(Hansbrough)

Ajinca/Turiaf/Jordan/Harrelson
Stoudemire/Landry
Anthony/Williams/Brown
Fields/Douglas/Walker
Billups/Shumpert/Hansbrough

Are we great, are we deep, No but we can get things done with this team

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I agree for the most part...I'd be ok with that 15-man squad. Question though -- Ajinca, Landry, Williams, Brown and Hansbrough are all considered FAs...Would we have the cap room to sign all of these guys, as well as possess the ability to sign our 2 draft picks AND last yr's purchased pick, Jerome Jordan?? I'm not sure man. Crazy pointed out that Ajinca already has a cap hold of around $2.9M with Toronto so you figure the bidding will start there. Shawne Williams will cost more than the league minimum (rumor has it Chicago's interested) and Derrick Brown's QO is set for a little over $1.05M. Now that's not even counting Carl Landry, who's a decent player and will probably be looking for MLE-type money and prob. more than a 1-yr deal. That guy's gonna be looking for some security...I like the team you came up with here but I just don't know if we'd be able to fit it all in.

If we had to cut corners on your blueprint & penny pinch, I say forget Derrick Brown & Carl Landry --- substitute either Joe Alexander or DeShawn Sims (maybe even both of these guys although both is kinda redundant---maybe go after one or the other PLUS a cheap power 4 with promise -- I like either Sean Williams or Jeff Adrien myself). I'd like to bring back Shawne Williams but we're gonna need to see what the pricetag is gonna be..Chicago might blow him out of the water with an offer or the Bulls might be involved only to drive the price up for us..If so, he'll have to go and then we'll have to look for an alternative. I like Jamelle Horne or Ryan Wittman. Both are just as good or better shooters than Williams (better imho), only they wouldn't bring Williams' length and ability to guard bigs on the block (where Williams actually looked overmatched at times to be honest---I know Williams has good length for a 3 and Mike trusts him in there but he's still a 3. I want legit big man bulk and/or height guarding the interior).

I don't see how we'd be able to save money at backup 3 going with Anthony Parker over Shawne Williams. Parker's been around for awhile now and he's been productive (was just reading yesterday somewhere that the Cavs consider him a leader and want him back -- I mean do we really get into a bidding war for this guy?). Plus, as a veteran I believe he might have earned a minimum contract level that might be over what Williams gets anyway. It might actually be cheaper to stick with Williams...But if Williams bolts, I say go cheap with an alternative and save money---go with either Horne or Wittman. That may make all the difference in being able to bring in a 3rd PG like Hansbrough or a backup 4/5 like Sean Williams..To me, both of those guys are more important than Derrick Brown and Carl Landry..Brown's a good athlete but a bit of an enigma -- definitely a tweener without true discernible skills to really hang his hat on...Landry's actually a good talent that's done well for a couple of teams the past few years but I feel there are players out there that can duplicate or even exceed his scoring skills for far less money than what he'll be commanding. Alexander and Sims are two of them. Just my 2 cents..

Was just reading Ajinca's player page over at NBA.com. For what it's worth, they also have him listed at 7'2" 248 lbs..Probably where Wikipedia got it from.

Also, I think CA7 brings up an interesting point in his last post: "at the end of the day you can't teach size so if we pick him up and start him and give him 24-30 minutes he better give us 8pts, 10rebs and 2blks while staying out of foul trouble if we get that then we're fine...".

First, I think he could come close to giving us that -- prob. even more scoring, definitely the blocks (he averaged 1.1 blks in only 11 mins a game last yr for Toronto -- 20 blks in 18 gms) and hopefully come close to grabbing double figure rebs. Like CA7 says, staying out of foul trouble will be key. And I totally agree -- if we get him, PLAY HIM!!! Give him 30 mins a night right outta the gate. Have faith in him to put up numbers as long as the playing time's there. That's the best way to develop a guy -- play him. We jerked Mozgov around last year -- first he plays, then he doesn't, then he jumps back in the rotation a second time...And Anthony Randolph -- I was SCREAMING for D'Antoni to just play the guy, mistakes and all. The upside was just too great. I mean at least Mozgov got a shot more or less (and I really thought Moz was a goon); Randolph never played and I think that was a huge mistake...He had 100x more upside than Mozgov..Dude goes over to Minny in the Melo trade and immediately starts having big games..Everyone remember that?? That was no fluke..D'Antoni screwed up ROYALLY when it came to Anthony Randolph, sorry. That's that..Now if we decide to bring in this kid Ajinca, for all that is holy, play the damn guy!!! Commit to him and play him. That's all I ask..They play different positions, one's a C the other's a SF, but Ajinca and Randolph are very similar to each other in terms of overall upside..Here's hoping they don't screw this up again!! You don't make a move for this guy to be the 15th man or to send him right to the NBDL..Not with that skill set and not when we have nothing even remotely substantial at the C position already. Bring him in and throw him out there from day 1. Let him hit the ground running and never look back.

finestrg said:

I don't see how we'd be able to save money at backup 3 going with Anthony Parker over Shawne Williams. Parker's been around for awhile now and he's been productive (was just reading yesterday somewhere that the Cavs consider him a leader and want him back -- I mean do we really get into a bidding war for this guy?). Plus, as a veteran I believe he might have earned a minimum contract level that might be over what Williams gets anyway. It might actually be cheaper to stick with Williams...But if Williams bolts, I say go cheap with an alternative and save money---go with either Horne or Wittman. That may make all the difference in being able to bring in a 3rd PG like Hansbrough or a backup 4/5 like Sean Williams..To me, both of those guys are more important than Derrick Brown and Carl Landry..Brown's a good athlete but a bit of an enigma -- definitely a tweener without true discernible skills to really hang his hat on...Landry's actually a good talent that's done well for a couple of teams the past few years but I feel there are players out there that can duplicate or even exceed his scoring skills for far less money than what he'll be commanding. Alexander and Sims are two of them. Just my 2 cents..

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I dont see Parker getting any playingtime over a (lockout) well rested healthy
Fields & Walker.... Is Grunwald going to sign Jerome Jordan to the minimum?
If not the next best minimum wage bigman on the market with the right skills
for the Knicks is Sean Williams. Is Sean attitude worth it?
Grunwald best bet would be to take the gamble on Sean Williams quick
intimidating presence in the paint to add with frontcourt players Amare,
Tuiaf, Jorts, and the (mystery veteran) MLE starting Knicks center ???

A lot of FA will be desperate to sign with teams....but not quick enough
for a one year contract.

Get him. I mean. With Billups STAT and Melo on your core. All we need is raw skills. He just need sto know where to be on offense and defense. Get boards. I say keep Sheldon Willams as well. He's a strong dude. He played decent defense on Howard last year. Keep Turiaf too.

I would love to keep Anthony Carter as well.

Alexis just needs good coaching. He has more experience in the NBA that Jerome and Mozgov combined. He's lithe but so is Tyson Chandler.

Get him. I trust Grunwald. He was Donnie right hand man.

Agreed his offensive game is very important in this system we need a C who can hit a jumper and play off STAT and Melo well, One thing I hope for is if he can be agile enough to help when guys like Rose, Wade, Rondo and James attack the basket going with Ajinca/Turiaf/Jordan at Center is probably the best we can do but you know what its not that bad since they wont be focal points of our O

Ajinca is an interesting prospect.

My reservation is that he's simply too raw, despite being an otherwise worthy shot in the dark signing, to have *any* realistic chance of contributing meaningfully to us this season on a 1yr deal.

And given a one year deal, we want boom or bust players who could boom this year; not actual, legit prospects/projects.

Kwame Brown I would say to be the former type of boom/bust player; Ajinca, the latter. Who really knows, though? That's where we just have to have faith in our scouting and intelligence from the upper brass.

Just some random stuff here:

Wargames had an interesting point about Ajinca on another thread:

"He is French and shares an agent with Turiaf (which probably means The Knicks know he will take a minimum 1 year deal)."

Maybe this does give us a leg up on Toronto --- you figure he'd be comfortable coming in and playing with a fellow countryman in Ronny, even if only for another year, AND I agree that because they share the same agent, the Knicks may have some insight already on whether they can get him or not and at what price...Nobody's supposed to be talking to one another right now, not for another couple of days, but agents can certainly talk to their own players, players can then talk to each other (they've been allowed back in the workout facilities), etc...There's a good chance we may have had indirect dialogue with this guy and his agent already through the back channels...We'll find out soon enough I guess.

Interesting to note that on the Realgm Toronto board, a Knick fan threw up a thread about Ajinca and most of the Raptor fans who responded thought he was soft, shot too many jumpers and didn't play inside enough...I got the feeling most of these Toronto fans couldn't care less about the guy. Doesn't really change my mind that much though. I see a lot of talent here and I'm ready to take a chance with him. Guys with that amount of skill at that height are rare man. Here's a link to that Realgm thread if you guys wanna check it out:

http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1140078&sid=dc4c7a057079decbc2590d964a35c781

Was also reading somewhere that we may be interested in 6'9" 250 lb. Fresno State C Greg Smith, a guy we worked out before the draft who eventually went undrafted. Saw an interview with the kid on youtube or over at DX yesterday and he sounded impressive..Workout took place at the Vegas Impact Gym...Wearing a Knicks workout shirt, he sounded well-spoken and talked about "working on his motor..being a good rebounder....being an Al Horford type of player, getting 10 & 10 a night and being physical." Then he mentions that he could "develop into an Amar'e Stoudemire-type" eventually... I dunno man. Lol. He sounded a little pie-in-the-sky to me with that last comment but God bless him. I hope he gets there..I know next to nothing about this guy (looks like he's got a funky little hitch on his shot release, see below)..I mean we already purchased Jorts Harrellson in this last draft -- how many 6'9" Cs with limited skill can one team have on a roster?? To me there's no comparison between Ajinca and Greg Smith. If it came down to it, I wanna see them target Ajinca first with Smith as some kind of fallback option. Here's the Smith interview btw:

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I was thinking that Ronny would have influence. Didn't know that they shared the same agent. No doubt Turiaf has been the tie that binds the Knicks interest.

I had a look at that Raptors' link. They hate the shit out of him!

If it's true, and he is really a 7'2" ballerina, I can't say I'd be too enthralled with adding extra floor spreaders when our dire need has been evident since the start of last year at Ajinca's position: BOARDS. We need someone to clean the glass and intimidate in the paint defensively. Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo.

Having said that, presumably he's amongst the many candidates for cheap contracts if by some miracle we pry CP3 from N.O.

It'd be beyond frustrating - for me - to live through the same monotonous issues all over again if we lose out on the Paul sweepstakes. Another year of chasing stars first & addressing glaring performance issues second.

I'm praying for an under the radar emergence from Jorts. ray:

* Gotta hand it to you, finestrg. You are the man to converse with on all things free agent. Good stuff!

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I can see why the smith guy went undrafted, but there is potential upside. I guess all cheap C's we'll take a look at but i don't think this is the ind of guy we would pick up or count on. Maybe if he stays hea;thy and works himself a nice stat line in the D-League he'd be worth picking up next year depending on our C situation.

I would have liked to hear more about picking up Kwame. That redemtion story would have been great. Imagine if he actually lifted his game and brought the knicks some postseason success??

Parker is a great person. He's a quality player and a great locker room guy. He's got decent shooting and is an underrated defender. I watched him a lot in toronto and he can be one of those "glue" guys that really helps. I could see him even accepting a role off the bench.

The french Center is an interesting prospect. After watching his workout vids posted here i gotta say that I like what I see. He has flashes of Dirk. but i think he will get pushed around by the big body types. Not even the taller players but even the shorter more stout players (think Blair in San An). Lots of upside tho and if he can put on some weight (New York Slice pizza will help) he'd be a difficult guy to work on in the post. If we lose out on Jerome Jordan for some reason I'd be interested in bringing him in.

also, on a raptor's/Toronto note. The province of Ontario is bordered by Quebec (the french province). There is a history of war between the people's and prejudice against the french run's rampant. I would not be surprised if that was a factor.

Crazy⑧s;187466 said:

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I was thinking that Ronny would have influence. Didn't know that they shared the same agent. No doubt Turiaf has been the tie that binds the Knicks interest.

I had a look at that Raptors' link. They hate the shit out of him!

If it's true, and he is really a 7'2" ballerina, I can't say I'd be too enthralled with adding extra floor spreaders when our dire need has been evident since the start of last year at Ajinca's position: BOARDS. We need someone to clean the glass and intimidate in the paint defensively. Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo.

Having said that, presumably he's amongst the many candidates for cheap contracts if by some miracle we pry CP3 from N.O.

It'd be beyond frustrating - for me - to live through the same monotonous issues all over again if we lose out on the Paul sweepstakes. Another year of chasing stars first & addressing glaring performance issues second.

I'm praying for an under the radar emergence from Jorts. ray:

* Gotta hand it to you, finestrg. You are the man to converse with on all things free agent. Good stuff!

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Thanks man. Appreciate that..

And I agree with you --- rebounding is very important..You wanna limit teams to 'one-and-out' opportunities, not give teams 2 and 3 cracks at it ever time down...Even though we get above-average rebounding from our wings (Melo, Fields) it doesn't truly make up for the fact that we don't get it down low consistently from Amar'e and anyone we've been running out there at C - Turiaf, etc..It's gotta start there.. It's a problem man...Ajinca looks smooth and skilled offensively, looks like a lot to build on in that area, but yeah man, if he's soft on the glass we might not be able to play him alongside Amar'e for long stretches (still interested in him despite these Raptor fans' take on him -- I wanna see for myself)...We really need a guy we can count on for double figure rebs next to Amar'e. I say if we can't upgrade the rebounding anywhere else, my 2 fallback options would be to bring in C Dwayne Jones and/or PF Jeff Adrien on the cheap. Jones has bounced around the league here & there and never really stuck anywhere (the Cavs, PHX) but he had a MONSTER rebounding yr in the NBDL for the Austin Toros a couple of yrs ago -- 16/game. If you retrace this guy's career going all the way back to his days at St Joseph's, he's always rebounded at a high clip as long as he's gotten the PT...And Adrien, while slightly undersized at 6'7" (but he does possess long arms which helps him compensate) has always been a tough hombre and it looked to me like he really improved his game a lot from his days at U-Conn. Adrien's stat line last yr in the DL (total between two teams): 27 gms, 18.3 ppg, 54.6% FGs, 72.2% FTs, 11.4 rebs, 1 stl, 1.4 blks. That ain't bad man, esp. the rebounding. Jones is more of a legit 5; Adrien, if we got him, would have to play 4 and STAT would have to slide over and play some 5 -- I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with that. STAT played center in PHX under D'Antoni and again for us at different points last yr. Ideally, STAT's a 4 that wants to play 4 -- I get that but this could work...Also just for fun -- it looked like Adrien continued to put in a lot of work on on his upper body AND he wore goggles last yr in the DL similar to the ones Amar'e wears..It'd be funny seeing these two look-alikes battling ever night side by side.

http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/jeff_adrien/career_stats.html

A few of us have been bringing up Sean Williams' name as well -- I'd give this guy a shot too for his size, some rebounding and his above-average shot-blocking skills. And I continue to like C Marcus Cousin A LOT..7' and very skilled offensively..Good rebounder too. If Houston cuts him loose, I think we should scoop him up...There are guys out there to address these issues, w/o even overpaying. The Knicks need to go find them.

Forget about other centers Berman wrote we were targeting, according to his "source" today we have eye on Foster, so the only question is, who will be on our radar tomorrow? :lol:

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/knicks_eye_foster_i3uXxIxh1d7D783KgchKjK

Dzwonsson said:

Forget about other centers Berman wrote we were targeting, according to his "source" today have eye on Foster, so the only question is, who will be on our radar tomorrow? :lol:

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/knicks_eye_foster_i3uXxIxh1d7D783KgchKjK

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Honestly I think the Knicks are in a bad position in this years free agency. Everyone knows they're only offering 1 year deals and if we do offer a player a multiple year deal it's so we can try to trade them to a Hornets team minus CP3.

So dumpster diving is gonna be the norm until 2013 when well have no money....