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It's probably not feasible, it's probably going to draw a chorus of "WTF"s from chemistry majors, and the Knicks might laugh, but it's deals like these that are kind of "once-a-decade" type of deals due to the Summer of LBJ crap that's prevalent right now.
We lose Joel, Travis and Blake.
We get Gallinari and Chandler and Curry's contract.
NYK still has enough horses to be somewhat respectable this year, but shave anywhere from 9.3M (if Joel uses his player option of 7.4M, which I'm not sure he'd do in NYC) to 16.7M off of their cap for next year. It allows them to get 2 max FA's again. Yeah, Gallinari's a pretty steep price to pay (and Chandler's no slouch), but if you can get LBJ AND Bosh (or Wade, or any of the others) it's not as steep as you may think.
We get value for taking on a crap contract from the Knicks. Gallinari has the makings of looking like a stud shooter from the 4 position. Our depth at C takes a hit, but instead of 48 minutes of Oden and Joel, we have 48min of Oden and LMA, with Gallinari (or others if we go small) picking up the slack at the 4. While maintaining the "shooter" capability of the backup 4. And Chandler is another "defensive energy" guy on the wing. Plus Bayless can try to get a bit of run.
Miller/Bayless/Mills (when healthy)
Roy/Rudy
Webs/Chandler/Batum (when healed)/Cunningham
LMA/Gallinari/Howard (when healed)
Oden/LMA/Curry (when...nevermind)
commence the
It's probably not feasible, it's probably going to draw a chorus of "WTF"s from chemistry majors, and the Knicks might laugh, but it's deals like these that are kind of "once-a-decade" type of deals due to the Summer of LBJ crap that's prevalent right now.
We lose Joel, Travis and Blake.
We get Gallinari and Chandler and Curry's contract.
NYK still has enough horses to be somewhat respectable this year, but shave anywhere from 9.3M (if Joel uses his player option of 7.4M, which I'm not sure he'd do in NYC) to 16.7M off of their cap for next year. It allows them to get 2 max FA's again. Yeah, Gallinari's a pretty steep price to pay (and Chandler's no slouch), but if you can get LBJ AND Bosh (or Wade, or any of the others) it's not as steep as you may think.
We get value for taking on a crap contract from the Knicks. Gallinari has the makings of looking like a stud shooter from the 4 position. Our depth at C takes a hit, but instead of 48 minutes of Oden and Joel, we have 48min of Oden and LMA, with Gallinari (or others if we go small) picking up the slack at the 4. While maintaining the "shooter" capability of the backup 4. And Chandler is another "defensive energy" guy on the wing. Plus Bayless can try to get a bit of run.
Miller/Bayless/Mills (when healthy)
Roy/Rudy
Webs/Chandler/Batum (when healed)/Cunningham
LMA/Gallinari/Howard (when healed)
Oden/LMA/Curry (when...nevermind)
commence the

