I would love to see MWP go to the Knicks..That place deserves all the headaches they can $ for. Could see MWP playing alot at the 4 with the knicks..
With Melo, Bargnani and STAT already there, I don't know. I could see him playing the three and taking the assignment of guarding the best forward, though. Even that's doubtful with Smith and Hardaway there.
MWP would be a great fit on the Spurs as a 20-25 minute player. His brother is a HUGE Spurs fan.
Looks like it's down to the Knicks and Clipps...
Metta actually would be a nice fit for the Spurs, but Pop's probably being cautious after the Stephen Jackson incident, tbh....
I wish Ron would consider teaming up with Timmy, we need a crazy on the bench plus he might organize a ST gtg and buy us all chipotle or something
Hes goin to go back home to New York!
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Metta World Peace has reached an agreement in principle on a two-year deal with the New York Knicks, league source tells Y! Sports.
Big difference there is that McGrady has already been humbled by the bball gods.
The next team that turns MWP into a 15 mpg bench player will be the first, so there's no telling how he'll actually react (even if he appears on board initially). Captain Jack certainly didn't handle it well, and he considers many on this team to be among his closest friends.
But Jack has a history of doing that; World Peace doesn't. World Peace handled his benching two years ago pretty well. He said he didn't like it, but his job was to be productive with the second unit.
Jack and World Peace are two different kinds of crazy. Jack was a locker room cancer everywhere he stayed longer than two years (and some that he stayed at less). World Peace is just mentally unstable. They're not even remotely similar. In McGrady's case, though. He had just come off being very productive in China after having years where he was a locker-room cancer. It wasn't clear that he would be fine getting a whole bunch of DNPs. In fact, a lot of poster thought he was going to move in the rotation.
Because it's never really happened. Again, essentially cutting his minutes in half serves as a wildcard scenario for a guy who is a wildcard himself even in good times. Maybe he'd be fine, maybe he wouldn't. It might have bee worth a gamble if he could still play, but why take a risk on a guy who isn't even productive anymore?
His numbers look okay only because of 30 mpg - you're talking about 6 & 3 from him if you prorate his totals to Jackson's minutes & shot totals last year...and that doesn't even take into account that his defense has essentially fallen off a cliff the past 2 years. I'd rather roll with Diaw backing up the 3 against bigger players and Green/Belinelli/Manu committee handling smaller wings.
Anyways, it's NY's burden to bear at this point.
spurs prob shoulda amnestied bonner and put in a minimum partial bid. they coulda forced a trade with the knicks. cash and an unprotected 2nd?
...or cj leslie
...or just pacified mwp. and had a more useful player than bonner.
What a fail thread.
waz a fail when u saw spurs n mwp
Honestly, I'd rather have Bonner than MWP. In fact, having Bonner on the roster makes for a nice safety cushion in general. When we have injuries, we know Bonner can step in and be a so-so 3rd big for the duration. We also know that he won't wreck the rotations when we bring him in for 10-15 minutes as a 4th big. We don't yet know that about Pendergraph or Baynes.
The ideal scenario is that Bonner falls to 6th on the big man depth chart and plays the Sean Marks role, but if something happens and we need him, we have him.
It's a bummer if we have to go through the season without a real backup 3. But we've been sticking guards at the 3 since, what, since Sean Elliott retired? We'll get by. MWP just isn't good enough to be worth dumping Bonner for.
Version 2.0, tbh.
potential for delayed gratification
It amuses me that MWP will soon be getting paid by both the Lakers and the Knicks to NOT play basketball for them.
potential for delayed gratification
I seriously want this crazy bas on the Spurs. Toughness, power, edge, rebounding...all areas where the Spurs could use an upgrade.
Get him and get Ayres off this team.
Metta's insane. The Spurs don't need that.
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