Porzingis

Not with our cap situation. Hayward to POR isn't happening in pretty much any scenario. Same with Paul/Griffin/Lowry et al.

 

I meant, without including Lillard, McCollum and Nurkic, because few people here want to trade them in any deal.

 

I would sooner trade CJ than Nurk.

 

I miss Kellerman on ESPN LA with Marcellus.

 

Do you read other threads?

 

If Lillard or CJ aren't in the discussion, there should be no discussion

15, 20, 26 aren't enough

 

They talk about Porzingis and 'Melo like they are these great pieces that another team would be so close to being a contender with....yet they were garbage in NY.

 

This is what I'm thinking - with three players of this caliber all available, that makes it much more likely we can get involved for one of them. It clearly seems BOS is our biggest competition on the trade market, but they can probably only land one major trade (we'll see - Danny did land both KG and Allen during the same summer!), which leaves two remaining. If I'm BOS I go after KP. That leaves Butler/George on the table. Maybe CLE somehow works some magic to get Butler, but I don't see how - personally I feel MIN would be our biggest competition for Butler. With Butler going to MIN (or CLE), and KP going to BOS, that would leave only LAL as our competition for George, and they may feel inclined to wait until 2018.

 

I wouldn't trade Nurk for Porzingis straight up. Unless I was the Knicks. Nurk > Porzingis.

 

I think Portland tries to get involved (been told they were already in touch with Indy) with any one of these three players but in the end, most likely as a facilitator as the big name player goes somewhere else.

 

Would I trade Lillard OR CJ for 3 firsts and 1 starting quality player? No.

However if they skipped exit meetings, said they weren't re-signing, and said they weren't interested in staying...

Yes, I would.

Would you have traded Lamarcus for 3 firsts and Danny Green?

Knowing what we know now, probably

 

You sure they don't want 3 mid firsts and Evan Turner instead?

.....please?

 

That would be my guess, too. The biggest name we'd likely land is Love, and I'm not too excited about that.

 

Haha - I was about to blast this after reading the first sentence. And then I continued reading and was like

 

Here is the thing, even if Porzingis came out and literally declared on ESPN that he hates playing in New York and wants to get traded, the Knicks would still get better offers than our goody bag of picks and trash. He is still on his rookie contract and will be an RFA afterwards.

 

There are some other interesting names on this list FWIW

 

I've always held the opinion that Aldridge was our best defender when he gave a shit.