The Official FA, Trade Thread, no link it goes here.

[Quietmoney]

I hear that Rudy Gay is on the block.. Anyway we could land him with a package of players?

[LeGacy is Music]

i prefer shumps and iman who will both be back by the end of the month

both of them?

[knicksballers]

How about novak and white with this years first for wilson chandler?

[knicksballers]

I hear that Rudy Gay is on the block.. Anyway we could land him with a package of players?

yea like a pakeage of camby, jr, iman, and novak with picks

[Quietmoney]

yea like a pakeage of camby, jr, iman, and novak with picks

If he was that good, don't think he'd be on the block.

[knicksballers]

If he was that good, don't think he'd be on the block.

yea buddy read stuff before you say anything it says they wana get lower on the cap and rudy gis a pretty amazing player

[still a fan]

no link to Knicks?

It goes to the FA thread, thanks

[Beast Mode]

That's right, trade him.

Woody ball leaves no place for Novak. The offence has slowed and doesn't fit his game, and the defence, though it has dipped of late, has become the preferred method. With this newly focused squad's aspirations in mind, the Novak fairytale is over.

● Over the next 4 seasons, including the remainder of the current season, Novak is owed $4,054,055, $3,750,000, $3,445,947, $3,750,000.

JR Smith's stand out season has a player option sitting in wait at season's close, and I do not want to lose his rounded game in place of Novak's predictable and limited one, simply because he's been overpaid. Though Smith is touted as being a sporadic shooter, Novak's form has been less desirable than expected as a sniper this season, which has created the perfect imbalance given his incapability to make defensive plays. Though he's hitting 3s at a clip of 44%, we've all seen him shine in blowout games, or in situations where teams have struggled to guard the perimeter. When there's been call for heroics, Novak is merely an advantage for other team's offence.

This has rendered him an absolute liability. And, IMO, the feeling is mutual with Woodson. The play in which Novak let Brandon Bass just walk to the basket for an easy 2 yesterday was the catalyst for my rant. If there were anyone more upset than I was, it was Tyson Chandler, who glared at Novak like he wanted to skin him.

So as much as I've grown tired of Novak's short-comings, there will, however, always be suitors for his 44% 3 point prowess. With a log jam at the 2-3 and a void at the 4, I just can't see how one of the league's worst defenders has a niché with this team's aspirations. Aspirations that are routed in stopping teams. Given that's been less of a staple of late, the one-trick-pony cliché has to go.

At the risk of losing JR, with the hope of Shump's return adding to our perimeter game, for the sake of the D, and, most importantly, to stop me from punching myself on the d*ck.............

Trade Novak.

[D-Leethal]

Novak's salary has absolutely nothing to do with keeping JR. We can offer JR a max of something like 5 yrs 30 mill regardless if Novak is here or not.

[Beast Mode]

Novak's salary has absolutely nothing to do with keeping JR. We can offer JR a max of something like 5 yrs 30 mill regardless if Novak is here or not.

That doesn't account for the flexibility we'd have without Novak, but you're right. That is also assuming that another team doesn't usher him in with a 4 year, $40M contract that Dolan won't match either.

I should have been more specific in regard to that.

[bofakop]

Novak's salary has absolutely nothing to do with keeping JR. We can offer JR a max of something like 5 yrs 30 mill regardless if Novak is here or not.

Yeah..I am guessing people don't realize our salary cap situation yet?

I am not sure if Woodson is that down on Novak... since he has played him more minutes per game than anyone else has???

[nycericanguy]

That doesn't account for the flexibility we'd have without Novak, but you're right. That is also assuming that another team doesn't usher him in with a 4 year, $40M contract that Dolan won't match either.

I should have been more specific in regard to that.

we don't gain any flexibility at all if we lose Novak,

And Novak at $3.75m annual average is actually a pretty good contract.

you're joining two things together that have nothing to do with each other.

If JR wants to stay he has to take less, or sign for 1 more year and then have full bird rights... that's pretty much what it boils down to.

[Anji]

I would trade Novak for a back up point guard. He gives up waaaaaaaaay more than he scores. I don't care what his winshares or TS is, he hurts more than he helps.

[LBOOGIE357]

http://basketball.******.com/wiretap...Randolph_Trade

Just wondering if anyone would be for a move for bringing Zach back to Gotham. He brings much better rebounding and can score with the best of 'em on the block.

[blahblahyoutoo]

zach for amare, though the grizz would have to be brain dead to make that move.