NFT: Knicks Chat! RoLo and Williams are Knick

I am expecting either Aldrich or Smith back. I highly doubt they want to use Porzingis at the 5 so we need some kind of depth behind Lopez. I think O'Quinn is 6-10 so maybe they think they can get away with using him there? Definitely seems we need one more big.

But he is foul prone, which is why we still need one more big.

of thing we should be doing. Phil's given out reasonable to good contracts to almost every one this offseason, and the one gamble is Williamd, who I'm still cautiously hopeful about. He needs to figure out that he's not going to be a go to scorer so he'll have to improve his three ball and become more efficient given less than heavy usage.

Not bad, not bad. Enough to strike out on Durant with

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In comment 12356253 giantsfan44ab said: Quote: And whoever else was bullish on O'Quinn deserves some credit for this. Guarantee you Phil was scouring through New York area sports forums for some ideas. Sarcasm, right?

Yes sir

that's a fairly rugged, blue collar front court depth chart

Listened to me! KOQ!

Phil Jackson loves KOQ

Love when Bbi Knicks thread gets happy. We got some lunchpail junkyard dog players --- very nice.

I thought cap space available was more like 25? Even if 17 we have to assume afflalo and Derrick Williams are 99 percent opting out with higher cap so that would leave us 30 million under the cap

Opting out we should have close to 30. Plus we can stretch Calderon and at that point we would save like 5 mill. Of course with the opt outs you only have Melo, Lopez, Grant, KP, early, Oquinn. Cap hold on Galloway would be really small and you may have thanisis only taking up like a mill. Plus the guy we took in the second should be coming over. We are in pretty good shape right now for once.

We had a way to pick up Koufos also who is still out there. Lopez, O'Quinn and Koufos would be one tough group.

I think he just agreed on a 4 year deal with The Kings. 4 years 33 mil?

Just signed with the Kings. 4/33 I think.

Labeyrie. He supposedly has some ability. Hope he plays summer league.

I think he's still available.

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I think he's still available.

agree Withy would make sense but do we have the cap space? What is he expected to get?

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Labeyrie. He supposedly has some ability. Hope he plays summer league.

Labeyrie doesn't seem to be a 5, though. From the Post recently:

"During their stop in Utah on the Knicks’ recent trip, young 7-foot-2 Frenchman shotblocking center Rudy Gobert, who is emerging as a stud, spoke glowingly and excitedly about Labeyrie in a quick interview with The Post.

Gobert shares the same agent as Labeyrie, and the two played together on the French 20-and-under national team.

“He wants to play in the NBA and I know he can, I don’t know if it can be next season, but maybe, yeah,’’ Gobert said. “I haven’t talked to him about it yet. He’s more of a power forward than center, though. He’s not a center.

“He’s athletic and can drive and can shoot. I think he’d like to be in New York. I was happy for him.’’

I doubt he's ready, but who knows?

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Gotta question how good this guy is

5.3 points 3.6 boards 26% from 3 (supposedly the basis for much of his offense) 0.63 blocks in 16 minutes per

Why was he only getting 16 minutes per game as a 23 year old on some French team?