Actually this year's Batum would have been perfect for these Knix.
He's played terrific all-around hoops, and has been a key player for LAC.
Really nice to see him bounce back.
Hunter expected to miss just 2-3 weeks. Rather small surgery, but who knows, that sounds rather optimistic. An op for Cam Reddish to step up. The guy is basically a mess, but an athletic hot mess. I haven't had a chance to see more than 2 minutes of Okongwu so far. Hunter is the key guy for ATL. Keeps that team humming. We'll see if they can avoid a collapse without him.
IQ leads all rooks in PER, followed by LaMelo and TyH
Yes. They have all been terrific. I'd be a lying motherfucker if I tried to front as if I didn't look at Kings box scores every day...size and athleticism, scorer, facilitator, defender. All the major food groups.
Who knows. For that matter, who knows if we'd have still pursued IQ if we had taken Tyrese. Can't have everything. And we were not the only team to pass on him. Detroit for one. Wonder how they had Killian Hayes rated a better fit for their team. Go figure.
As fate would have it, IQ and Obi a nice nod to our future.
I was arguing with our old pal Nagel, who texted me a trade phantasy, then wondered why I did not reply.
Knox & Ntilikina and Dallas' 2021 #1 for Zach Levine.
When he pushed me, I did not respond in the affirmative, and chided him for reminding me of those halycon days when the Knicks traded the #5 and #8 picks in the draft for Gerald Henderson and Juuwan Oldham.
And I really like Zach Levine. Not a great defender, but he can sure fill up a box score.
But so far I like that the Knicks appear to have recovered from their nasty habit of dealing away all of their draft picks on shiny objects.
The trades that stockpiled draft picks and somehow transformed Ed Davis into multiple #2's and Alex Burke seemed prudent rather than garish. And transforming the earthly remains of Dennis Smith and Charlotte's #2 [from the Hernan-Gomez transaction] into Derrick Rose seems a modest roster move with an eye on making Thibs happy, making IQ and Obi better, and battening down the hatches for a playoff ascent.
And that #1 from Dallas, even if they do not scrape bottom, which is unlikely, unless both KP AND Luka go down, at the very least looks to be a mid-first rounder.
And again, while Wes and DeAndre and Dennis are all gone, the cap space we saved by not maxing out KP, and by divesting ourselves of Timmy and Courtney, continues to pay long term benefits.
Julius and Immanuel [parlayed from Marcus],
plus Derrick and Elfrid and Austin and Reggie and Nerlens and Taj and Alec, all on make good one year deals.
And we are still sitting on $15 Million in cap space.
By the way, your recurring 3&D phantasia?
Otto Porter's garish deal comes to an end this summer when he turns 28, and can probably be picked up relatively on the cheap. Still an effective long range sniper and decent defender, though he hardly gets to the FT line, despite a good FT%.
Still, let's see how Bullock and Burks and KK close out 2020.
PS: And yes, Philly doolooping on Bridges made no sense then, and even less now, let alone that his Momma worked in their front office.
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