What If: D’Antoni and the Knicks
It’s official! Mike D’Antoni is a New York Knickerbocker. Four years, $24m. And you know what that means, right? It means it’s time for another game of “What If?” This should be fun.
What if…
…D’Antoni’s run and gun basketball becomes the prevailing theme of hoops in the Big Easy? Do the Knicks hold onto Zac Randolph and Jerome James? Is New York’s conditioning team able to rip off what the Suns pulled with Shaq at the tail end of last season? Is Randolph even motivated to get into shape like O’Neal was?
…the Knicks follow up the D’Antoni signing by trading Stephon Marbury and his $22m expiring contract to the Suns for Leandro Barbosa and Boris Diaw? If the Suns are serious about avoiding the luxury tax, aren’t they obliged to make this trade?
…they do eventually make that trade? Is a starting lineup of Barbosa, Crawford, Richardshon, Diaw and Curry enough to take the Knicks back to the playoffs? There’s at least a 90% chance it is.
Good signs ahead for Knicks fans!
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Ohh, for sure Randolph is being shopped right now. That is absolute fact. There is absolutely no way D’Antoni wants a player like him in his system… He is ineffective and makes bad choices on the court.
Off the court… A whole other ball game…
D’Antoni will do what he can do, but in the meantime, most of New York will be shopped… In 2 years when most of the bad contracts run out, the Knicks will hope to make a move for Lebron James