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http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/ny-spknix0712948040jul06,0,4801487.story
I'll sum it up quickly. Grant Hill says he's very serious about coming to the Knicks. According to the article, D'Antoni sees him as playing the 2 in the backcourt with Chris Duhon, a fellow Dookie.
The Knicks plan to use the bi-annual exception on Grant (since we have Jordan Hill, I'll use Grant). That's not a lot of money for them, doesn't really eat into the 2010 salary cap, and it can't hurt to have a guy like Grant Hill who's a great guy on and off the court. He'd bring veteran leadership to this team, something we could use. He can play the point and has basketball IQ. He'd help lure in other free agents, being a pretty big name guy who was once considered to be the next up and coming star of the league (seriously I think he would've had a career close to that of Kobe's if he never got injured and actually got himself onto a decent team).
It's true he's injury prone, but he's an extremely versatile presence for us and can fill a lot of gaps. He adds versatility; he would allow Walsh to get rid of one of our SFs in the event that a good trade opportunity comes up. If Walsh chooses to keep both of them, he'd be a solid presence off the Bench, or he could start if Walsh wants to use Danilo in a bench role.
In any case he'd be a great pickup for us being that he's a solid player, a good guy to have on your team (by all accounts and everything I've read he's a model citizen and just an upstanding awesome guy) and most importantly he doesn't really eat into the plans for 2010.
Please, Donnie, make it happen somehow...
I'll sum it up quickly. Grant Hill says he's very serious about coming to the Knicks. According to the article, D'Antoni sees him as playing the 2 in the backcourt with Chris Duhon, a fellow Dookie.
The Knicks plan to use the bi-annual exception on Grant (since we have Jordan Hill, I'll use Grant). That's not a lot of money for them, doesn't really eat into the 2010 salary cap, and it can't hurt to have a guy like Grant Hill who's a great guy on and off the court. He'd bring veteran leadership to this team, something we could use. He can play the point and has basketball IQ. He'd help lure in other free agents, being a pretty big name guy who was once considered to be the next up and coming star of the league (seriously I think he would've had a career close to that of Kobe's if he never got injured and actually got himself onto a decent team).
It's true he's injury prone, but he's an extremely versatile presence for us and can fill a lot of gaps. He adds versatility; he would allow Walsh to get rid of one of our SFs in the event that a good trade opportunity comes up. If Walsh chooses to keep both of them, he'd be a solid presence off the Bench, or he could start if Walsh wants to use Danilo in a bench role.
In any case he'd be a great pickup for us being that he's a solid player, a good guy to have on your team (by all accounts and everything I've read he's a model citizen and just an upstanding awesome guy) and most importantly he doesn't really eat into the plans for 2010.
Please, Donnie, make it happen somehow...