Donnie Walsh & D'Antoni are in desperate need of a player like Ron Artest to bring Leadership to this Knick Team to start Walsh & D'Antoni's first Knick full-season off successfully.
Too bad! that Ron Artest dont want to have anything to do with Donnie Walsh again, unless their is a $60 million 5 year contract included.
Walsh knows it will cost him bigtime $$$ to get Ron Artest to play for him again.
Hint:
Ron Artest, his agent, and Fans seen that Artest performance before making the All-Star Team was worth over $10 million per, he have no offcourt problems however, on the court for the sake of a WIN Artest can become "crazy & derange" towards opositions (Rodman & Sprewell), plus act the fool in the lockerroom & practice towards lazy teammates that keep messing up their assignment play.
Artest leadership is priceless on the court when helping teammates against oponents.
The Pacers Walsh, Bird, and Carlisle had no intentions of ever extending Ron Artest contract after he got the team playing on the next level by showing his true emotion over a loss to the Sprewell & Houston Knicks by kicking a monitor over after the game (Kurt Thomas shut J.O'Neal down and Pacer coach Isiah Thomas accepted it, but Artest did'nt. From that momment on Artest gave a huge helping hand at guarding opositions PF- Kurt, K-Mart, Ben, Duncan, Webber, KG, ect.).
President Walsh & Bird let the media and Stern make a mockery of tearing up Ron Artest character in the Detroit Brawl as if Artest actions were not normal in that situation.
Artest did the right thing by cleaning up his act by playing in the Summer League Games guiding the rookies and starting the Pacers regular season off with a 60% Winning record.
Than demanded a trade to get away from snakes that dont have your back...