Summer league roster
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- July
- 9
Are you getting all excited about the prospect of another undefeated summer league?
Stop it.
Here’s the roster for next week’s show in Las Vegas:
32 Renaldo Balkman, F, 6-8, 208, Jul. 14, 1984, South Carolina, New York (NBA) 2
21 Wilson Chandler, F, 6-8, 230, May 10, 1987, DePaul, New York (NBA) 1
25 Mardy Collins, G, 6-6, 220, Aug. 4, 1984, Temple, New York (NBA) 2
8 Danilo Gallinari, F, 6-9, 225, Aug. 8, 1988, Italy, Armani Jeans (Italy) R
18 Dan Grunfeld, G/F, 6-5, 198, Feb. 7, 1984, Stanford Valencia (Spain) R
7 Antonio Graves, G, 6-2, 190, Apr. 17, 1985, Pittsburgh (CBA) R
6 Marcus Hall, G, 6-2, 175, Aug. 6, 1985, Colorado (NCAA) R
36 Delonte Holland, F, 6-7, 220, Mar. 2, 1982, DePaul, Cimberio Varese (Italy) R
30 Brandon Hunter, F, 6-7, 266, Nov. 24, 1980, Ohio, Angelico Biella (Italy) 3
1 Antione Johnson, G, 6-1, 185, Sep. 21, 1985, Albany, Gazi (Turkey) R
40 Paul Miller, F/C, 6-10, 250, Nov. 17, 1982, Wichita State, SPEC Polonia (Poland) R
2 Anthony Roberson, G, 6-2, 188, Feb. 14, 1983, Florida, Hapoel (Israel) 2
4 Nate Robinson, G, 5-9, 180, May 31, 1984, Washington, New York (NBA) 3
5 Von Wafer, G, 6-4, 195, Jul. 21, 1985, Florida State, Portland (NBA) 3
55 Zhang Songtao, C, 6-11, 212, Oct. 27, 1987, China, Beijing (China-ABA) R
Grunfeld is the son of former Knicks player and general manager Ernie Grunfeld. With so many of last season’s reserves playing, I would hate to be a sub on this roster. There won’t be a lot of minutes to audition for the scouts on hand.
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I am in basketball withdraw since the playoffs ended at least this year will be pacified by being able to watch a knick lottery pick in summer league + the olympics then it’s almost training camp time!!!!
I am shocked that Mardy Collins plays in the NBA. Am I the only one?
Mardy Collins is probably shocked too.
If some of the reports are true that Crawford is one of the players who could potentially be moved, it makes sense that they’re not getting rid of Marbury just yet. He might be a valuable asset in the backcourt playing off the ball.
I just read this on cbssportsline.com about the Clippers renouncing Shaun Livingston. Why don’t the Knicks just do that with Marbury, Jerome James and any other contracts they no longer want? There has to be more to the rule, right?
“According to the NBA collective bargaining agreement, a renounced player no longer counts toward team salary, so teams use renouncement to gain additional cap room. A team can still re-sign such a player, but the team must either have enough salary cap room to fit the salary, or sign the player using the minimum salary exception.”
If that is really the rule, I’d be all for that, despite my previous comment. But that can’t possibly be the case, can it? If there’s a way to remove Marbury from the team without a huge cap hit, I’d think the Knicks would have already done it.
I’m all for wiping away Marbury and anyone else involved in disgracing the fan base and the franchise we love last year with the lawsuit. The fact that Isiah still even has an office there makes me sick.
In order for a team to renounce their rights to a player, that player has to be a restricted free agent. So when the right they are renouncing is the right to match any offer signed by that player.
Therefore, you simply cannot renounce the rights to a player who is still under contract and thus sadly, Jerome James’ rights cannot be renounced right now.
Maybe Jerome James could just be dumped in the Hudson River? We could tell him there were delicious cheeseburgers at the bottom of it and he might just dive in on his own.
any chance vanilla wafer sticks with the knicks? he could be a good fit in the d’antoni system.