New York was believed to be offering Penny Hardaway, Jamal Crawford and at least one other player, likely Trevor Ariza, David Lee or Nate Robinson, in a deal in which the Knicks would also take back center Kelvin Cato, whose $8.64 million salary comes off the cap at the end of the season. Cato would have to be included along with Francis ($13.7 million) to provide a match for the salaries of Hardaway ($15.75 million), Crawford ($6.5 million) and the third player, be it Robinson ($1.2 million), Lee (860,000) and/or Ariza $640,000). I don't have a link, but one of my friends told me about it. I'll try to see if I can find a link. If we get Lee and Ariza and a 1st, I would do it. Penny's contract comes off of the books after this year. Him and Battie would free nearly 23 million this year and with Hill coming off of the books next year, we can actually get an impact player. Crawford is very young and talented, but I don't think he will fit in with Orlando. He shoots way too much for my liking and will take some of Dwight's shots away.
im not a big fan of crawford, even though he can put up some points. this trade isnt to bad, frees up space for 2007 when a good amount of players will be free agents. Im sure some of them would like the chance to play with dwight. Think what dwight will be like in 2 years.
I like this trade more than the Darko trade (I would like almost any trade more than that one) This would give us valuable cap space.
