<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Once Mike D'Antoni is formally named to succeed Isiah Thomas, he is expected to try to make a push for two of his favorite Suns -- forward Boris Diaw and guard Leandro Barbosa, who reportedly have fallen out of favor with Suns management. According to a person close to D'Antoni, one of his first moves would be to get the Knicks to offer Stephon Marbury and his expiring $22 million contract as a central part of the deal. "He loves Boris and Barbosa and he didn't like Marbury when he had him," said the source. "So this is the type of move that can jump-start D'Antoni's program right off the bat. He went to New York with the notion that he will have input and help alter the roster to get his kind of players." "D'Antoni and Marbury is going to be a bad fit," the source predicted. "He views Marbury as a shooting guard, anyway."</div> New York Daily News
Interesting, it is true that Marbury and him wouldn't have worked out, and salary cap for Pheonix would be nice. I also read somewhere else that TJ Ford might go to New York in a trade for Jamaal Crawford (I think it was on ESPN or realgm). I'm really curious about how much the Knicks would do to turn this around. I think in the East, New York and Charlotte are gonna be players in the draft and free agency.
