Part of me says the Knicks deserve this because they were stupid enough to hire Phil Jackson. Noah was broken at the end with the Bulls. Another part says they owe him no favors at all considering his contract and the drug suspension. Knicks should just deactivate him the rest of the season. Don't reward his behavior. That is unless they find another Phil Jackson that takes him in a trade.
Deng is not injured (that I know of), just washed up. I would agree with you that Parsons is worse. (Unless the Grizzlies can get out of it like Miami/Bosh.) 2. Chandler Parsons (3 years/$72.3 million): When the Grizzlies signed Parsons, the natural inclination was to flinch, as he had some injuries in his two years in Dallas. Then you looked at the gaping hole Memphis had on the wing, and the fact they were committed to Marc Gasol and Mike Conley. The Grizzlies had to do something to try and push their team forward in the Western Conference. Unfortunately, they are now handicapped with one of the worst cap situations in the NBA. We already covered Conley above, but Parsons’ situation is even uglier. He’s played in just 60 total games for Memphis and averaged just 7.3 points per game. Parsons can’t play in back-to-back games due to knee and back issues and he turns 30 early next season. With an average over $24 million due to Parsons for each of the next three years, the Grizzlies have one of the NBA’s worst cap clogging contracts on their books. 1. Luol Deng (3 years/$54 million): Almost as soon as the Lakers finished talking with Timofey Mozgov, they doubled down by inking Deng to an even worse contract. Los Angeles signed him, even though they already had Julius Randle and had just drafted Brandon Ingram, who play the same positions as Deng. At the time it was sold as Deng would serve as a mentor to both youngsters. Instead, he played in just 56 games that first year, before being shut down with a combination of injuries and the Lakers wanting to play younger players. This year, in year two of his four year, $72 million deal. Deng has played 13 minutes in one game. He was almost immediately shut down, as the Lakers smartly chose to focus on youth at the forward spots. We mentioned above, that some of these deals aren’t bad for their current teams because they are rebuilding. So, why is Deng’s contract so toxic for the Lakers? They are rebuilding, but hope to fast forward that process this summer by bringing in one or two max free agents. With Deng taking up $18 million in cap space in July, his deal could crush the Lakers dreams. It has been reported that teams are asking for two first round picks in return for eating Deng’s contract, or one pick and one of the Lakers prized youngsters out of Ingram or Kyle Kuzma. The Lakers could stretch the cap hit owed to Deng, and Eric Pincus of even suggested a creative option of extending Deng on a partially guaranteed contract before stretching him. But there really isn’t a good option here for Los Angeles. No matter what, they are going pay a hefty price to move on from yet another really bad summer of 2016 mistake.
Maybe Noah Deng swap straight up. Neither guy is doing anything but taking up a lot of cap space (at least guys like Parsons, Andersen, Williams could ostensibly contribute somewhere somehow)
The point of the lakers wanting to move Deng is due to his toxic contract, what good is it gonna do for them with swapping it with even worse one?
I agree with most except for tearing up his contract. You can do that but it wouldn’t have a legal effect on the contents.
Noah wasn't playing anyway and trade prospects were nil before this. Stretching him was a poor option also because the 7.5M payments would eat into cap space when the Knicks were more likely to be active in the FA market. Nothing has really changed, he was going to be an expensive DNP like Eddie Curry and Jerome James. Knicks and him should just kiss and makeup and maybe if they can unload O'Quinn to NO he can get some PT to contribute.
Noah sucks and wants to leave. His days are over. After that contract he probably won’t sign another unless it’s vet min. Just collect paychecks
[Ian Begley] From earlier with @wojespn: there have been no buyout talks between the Knicks and Joakim Noah and Noah does not want to give back significant money in any buyout, sources say.
