Wargames
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If we make the deal for Melo we won't have enough cap space to sign any major free agents but we will be a lot more attractive to veteran free agents who might want to latch on with low money contracts for a chance at a championship the way Miami attracted role players this past summer, the Nazr Mohammeds or Jeff Fosters. Depending on the new CBA if there's a midlevel exception contract clause we could use that to sign Reggie Evans, Joel Pryzbilla or possibly Sam Dalembert to add another big body to bang in the paint. Even if there isn't, we can still use our 1st round pick to draft a big on Mozgov's level at a third of the cost salary wise, losing him will not be the end of the world in any way, shape or form. We could probably pick up some serviceable players by culling the D-Leagues, guys like Sean Williams, Patrick Ewing Jr or Jeff Adrien for example.
We're going to have to agree to disagree because nothing you've said makes sense to me from a +/- standpoint for Mozgov. Not to mention the overall +/- on this deal for a player who would be a free agent next year.
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But you know that saying a bird in hand is worth two in the bush. Thats how it is with non injured bigs who can play. The knicks have a history of getting worthless bigs. Right now we got one who is a starter quality player who is playing hard for us. We can go through a ten name list of Bigs who have not played well for us. For all we know we may have to go through another list of 10 crappy bigs before we find another one.
Lastly if you look into the draft its really unlikely we'll get one this year. The two european players who are nice will probably go top 10 and we're gonna be in the 20's. and for all we know we may have to draft a damn PG to be a stop gap/ future PG depending on all the other factors the team is going to be in.