<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">With Channing Frye producing big time, could it be time for the Knicks to go young and buy out Antonio Davis? Would the Bulls still be interested?</div> <div align="center">Mercury News</div> I could see this happening the Knicks have a lot of front court players providing the same thing that Davis provides, and they might also want to get David Lee some more minutes as well. I really hope this happens I think we have been missing Davis’ presence more so than Curry.
It think this is wishful thinking...i really don't see any reason for the knicks to buy out a guy who's got an enormous expiring contact, and who also definitely is a favourite of LB...
Hard to imagine the Knicks just waive him or buy him out. Especially if it means he returns to the Bulls and improves their chances to make the post season ahead of the Knicks. The one positive though is LB doesn't like Antonio Davis. I wonder how the league would feel about the Knicks and Bulls swapping Tim Thomas for Antonio Davis.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">Hard to imagine the Knicks just waive him or buy him out. Especially if it means he returns to the Bulls and improves their chances to make the post season ahead of the Knicks. The one positive though is LB doesn't like Antonio Davis. I wonder how the league would feel about the Knicks and Bulls swapping Tim Thomas for Antonio Davis.</div> Why would the Knicks want that Fugazi? I doubt we'll ever see TT in a NYK uni especially since he just dissed Steph. I think Davis stays a knick because they still need a big PF since Rose/Malik havent been producing constantly. They also still need some veteran leadership since theyre mostly made of rookies. And Bks about David Lee. He's shown flashes of his skill but I still think he's going to need more time to fully develop and become accustomed to that PF position in the NBA.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting shapecity:</div><div class="quote_post">Hard to imagine the Knicks just waive him or buy him out. Especially if it means he returns to the Bulls and improves their chances to make the post season ahead of the Knicks. The one positive though is LB doesn't like Antonio Davis. I wonder how the league would feel about the Knicks and Bulls swapping Tim Thomas for Antonio Davis.</div> ???
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"I got traded. That's all I know," Davis said Monday after getting two points and three rebounds in perhaps his last Knicks start. "The bottom line is I'm in New York. I can't worry about what was supposed to happen, what could have happened, what should have happened." But as Davis talked, one could hear a wistfulness in his voice. "Seeing Kirk Hinrich, Tyson [Chandler] there this summer. Being around Ben [Gordon], who is phenomenal to be around, coach [Scott] Skiles. It kind of woke me up," Davis said about being with the Bulls the last two seasons. "I got excited again about going to practice, what we were doing. "I still feel that's a good [Bulls] team. [Michael] Sweetney is exactly what they needed. When Eddy went out, if we had one guy like that . . . we needed that one presence, the one guy who could maybe demand a double team and take some pressure off guys. I watch them every time I get a chance. "Chris Duhon," Davis said with a sigh, "I told everyone he was my MVP last year. Every day at practice . . . he made Ben good just by guarding him, not allowing Ben to settle, to walk out there and get open, forcing Ben to learn how to use picks, forcing Ben to guard him in practice. That's what makes teams really good, pushing each other every single day, having guys who just came out and worked hard and didn't complain and wanted to win and get better. You can't ask for a situation any better than that." Davis is a pro's pro, the player elected president of the NBA Players Association, a guy not about to display disloyalty. But he would like to go home, perhaps even next season. Davis said he still plans to settle in Chicago when his career ends. He was planning to start building what he called his dream house in the western suburbs this fall until the trade developed. He'll get to it. Davis' salary was necessary to complete the Curry deal, a further indication the Bulls truly didn't intend to deal Curry. "I spent the whole summer basically saying I wasn't going to be traded," Davis said. "I knew it was the last year of my contract and that situation might be attractive for some team trying to get money off the cap. I was assured I wouldn't be going anywhere, but I learned a long time ago people can only promise you so much. Everyone can be traded. You have to deal with it."</div> <div align="center">Chicago Tribune</div>
