Knicks Pay Steep Price For Cap Space and McGrady Tryouts

Donnie Walsh is winning praise from the Knicks fanbase for almost creating enough cap space to pay two max player contracts this summer. In a couple of posts, we will let you know what everyone is saying.  But, I must say the price is very steep and I think Knicks fandom is a bit delusional from the overriding desire to escape the horror we have been privy to for over a decade.  Yet, the simple math is that this exercise is a huge crapshoot which can only succeed with a lot of help and a lot of favor from other parties.  Do we have that kind of good will.  If the way Morey put the screws to us is any indication.  Hell to the naw.

Folks, if you want to read the cold truth.  You are more than welcome to hang right here, because we, as always will pull no punches, which seems to make this site unfortunately unique in the fanatic Blogosphere. But we thrive on diverse opinion with alll of our checks and balances. But here is where the garbage meets the dustpan, the dog pooh meets the shoe and the turth shall be revealed one bad decision at a time.

Anyway, with the exception of the Drako-Brian Cardinal exchange, the trades shake out as follows in the chart below.

 

Knicks Receive	Rockets Recieve	Kings Receive	Celtics Receive
Tracy McGrady $22.8 Million        1 Year From Rockets	Jordan        Hill $2.4 Million      2 years From Knicks	Larry Hughes $13.6     Million      1 Year From Knicks	Nate Robinson $4      Million       1 year From Knicks
Sergio Rodriguez $1.5 Million/1 Year w/Qualifying Offer Yr. From Kings	Jared     Jeffries $6.4 Million      2 years From Knicks	Carl   Landry $ 3.0 Million      1 year From Rockets	Marcus Landry $457,588K 1Year From Knicks
Eddie   House $2.8     Million From   Celtics	Kevin Martin $9.6 Million 4 years From Kings	Joey   Dorsey $881K     3 years From Rockets
J.R.  Giddens $1.028 Million         1 year From   Celtics	Hilton Armstrong $2.8 Million      1 year From Kings
Bill      Walker $736,420K  3 Years From  Celtics
DRAFT PICK Future Conditional 2d Rd from Celtics	DRAFT PICK 2011 Option To Exchange with Knicks Protected 2012 1str Round Pick From Knicks

Donnie Walsh welcomes Tracy McGrady according to dangerfor3 @xtranormal.com: