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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 2238818, member: 767"]
It's a terrible contract.  the Hawks have a lot of cap space (i think??) so maybe they'll match but I dunno.

I hate to keep harping on this, but Dion really isn't any good.  I get that he went to SU so there's an extra focus on him, but he's got a career true shooting of 49.1%.  That's terrible.  Even in his "breakout season", he was at 50.7%.  There were 91 qualifying SG last year, Dion ranked 68th in true shooting.  He's a decent playmaker, I will give him that, but he just doesn't shoot very well and he never has.  It's hard to have a very good offense when a guy who shoots that poorly is taking up a lot of possessions.

Hardaway isn't any good either.  He did have a pretty decent improvement last year, he can shoot, but from what I remember as a Knick, he's a truly terrible defender.  This is just an awful contract.

I was curious, did some research.  Dion had a usage rate of 26 and a true shooting of 50.7% last year.  There were 5 players last year who had a true shooting below 52 and a usage over 25 last year.  D'Angelo Russell, Wade, Zach Randolph, Reggie Jackson.  Since Dion came into the league, there have been 44 such seasons; Dion accounts for 3 of those seasons.  The only other guy to appear on the list 3 times is Kemba Walker; so hey, maybe there's hope.
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