I guess you do it. Randolph is a gamble but so are draft choices. I don't think the deal is offered unless NY gets Denver to agree that they will take the Rox pick (obtained from NY) in a deal for Melo.
depends how much NY sucks next year. so with the possibility of melo going to NY, if it happends next season, then hell to the yes!
NY will not suck with Melo on board, be it trade deadline or next year (depending on who they trade for him; regardless Melo and Stoudemire will have fun w/ each other). I say we trade for 'value now'. Randolph has a nice skill that's still being tapped. If worse comes to worse, we can always use him as another trade asset or someone we can throw into the mix to keep our players wanting to actually fight for their minutes.
Since NY will do good next year for sure better of to get AR then the pick because NY will be a PLAYOFF TEAM !
If anything I would give them the right to swap our pick because we have the worst record or maybe just giving them the pick back. No way I would give them the 2012 pick we out right own it.
I think we should all answer this in feb. to see if the knicks suck or not suck by that time. Right now they look like a legit 5-8 seed team in the east. If they suck Hell to the no. If they are doing good Hell to the yes.
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The problem with that is we aren't the ones holding this up.. they are. The only reason for them to do this deal is because Denver has OK'd their package of Galinari/Fields/NY's 2012 1st rounder. If we try to hold it up, they could just ship AR to another team willing to offer a 1st rounder to satisfy Denver's demands.