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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 1632092, member: 297"] My thinking is this - the Knicks couldn't afford to whiff in free agency. They'd built towards having that cap room for too long and sacrificed too much to come away empty. Problem was the best they could get was a guy with knees that had a ticking clock, and the only way to get him was to give him a risky number of years. They had to have a star though and they did get him, and they saw the immediate benefits. Once Melo was on board though, that wrapped up the star they needed for a lot longer at a lot less risk. Stat was expendable, because again, time bomb. The amnesty would have been amazingly bold, but I think they would have made it up by fielding a more competitive team with FA dollars. Instead they had to deal on the fringes with knuckleheads. Looking at you, JR. [/QUOTE]