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First, there are not many players on our roster that would yield a top 5 pick. Pretty much Kawhi, and maybe Parker, and neither of those guys is likely to get you a number 1. Kawhi could get you a top 5 because he is young. Parker could only get you a top five if a team desperately needed a PG and they were in win now (usually not the case if they are in the lottery). Diaw or Splitter could potentially get you a low-level lottery pick depending on the other team's need, but that's about it. Second, it's hard to tell where NY is. You'd think they are win-now because PJ needs to turnaround the team fast to keep his image as basketball genius. Also, Melo is past 30 and is at the win-now stage of his career. At the same time, the rest of the roster is awful, and the Knicks are probably better off drafting a young talent and trading Melo for young talent. Phil's just in a tough place landing all the way down at No. 4, but he was due some bad karma after meal ticketing off of Pippen, Jordan, Shaq, and Kobe. And so, I'm not sure we could really land that draft pick, and not sure why we would trade a point guard (none on the FA market) to draft a big question mark who probably is not a point guard. Basically, any trade with Parker that doesn't involve getting another point guard just creates a big hole in our roster.
