2016 NBA Offseason Grades For All 30 Teams
New York Knicks
“With a core of Derrick Rose, Courtney Lee, Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and Joakim Noah, the Knicks are a playoff team on paper. Anything goes in the Eastern Conference, but the New York Knicks will also be heavily relying on four players — Rose, Melo, Noah and Brandon Jennings — who have been notoriously banged up over the last few seasons.
In 2011, a core like this would have been all the rage in the NBA. Five years later, it seems like an ill-fated attempt to reunite the Chicago Bulls team that never came to fruition when Melo chose to re-sign in New York over migrating to the Windy City.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are still vastly superior in the East, and after watching a younger Festus Ezeli get signed to a bargain two-year, $17.4 million deal, Noah’s massive deal is enough to turn anyone’s stomach.
New York has a good chance of being a playoff team again in 2016-17, but for the long-term and the short-term future, don’t expect much more than that.”
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Grade: C-
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