Feigen: Rockets would not give Knicks their 2012 pick back without lotto protection

Yup the Knicks need to own their 2012 outright if they want to trade their 2011 or 2013 pick. Trading Randolph for a lotto protected pick is pretty worthless to the Knicks. I think there are other teams willing to trade for Randolph, but none will do it for an unprotected first round pick.

 

The point was explained by Bima. Basically, we were willing to make the trade with the Knicks, but it would have left them hogtied and they wouldn't have been able to trade multiple picks for Melo. Does that sound right Bima?

 

No.

That's not what I said. I wasn't even commenting on a Randolph trade at all.

But I'll do so now.

I think "the Randolph trade" is far less likely now that the Rockets chose to make "the Williams trade". I also think that "the Williams trade" addresses a bigger team need (a two-way player at the SF position) than "the Randolph trade" would have (we have enough PFs; Scola's a better player; and Randolph would be far less effective playing anything other than PF).

If we end up trading for Randolph, then great. Whoopity-doo!

But I'm not crossing my fingers and praying for it to happen.

 

The point I was talking about is the one Jonathan Feigen made in his blog, not the point you were trying to make.

I do stand corrected by our chief capologist on the last part of my first comment though.