{"id":8998,"date":"2011-12-20T22:36:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2011-12-20T22:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:36:04","slug":"the-new-york-knicks-score-with-baron-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/the-new-york-knicks-score-with-baron-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks Score with Baron Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We’ve already seen some “fallout” from the NBA’s new, streamlined budget–the Cavaliers have lost power player Baron Davis.\u00a0 The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> waived Davis a week ago, choosing instead to keep him as an “amnesty player” in an attempt to control their cap figure.\u00a0 However, the New York Knicks<\/a> wisely signed this new free agent, as they have been looking for a way to strengthen their backcourt.\u00a0 The team also added defensive player Tyson Chandler to their roster in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

At the moment, Davis is out of action with a herniated disk in his back, an injury that could keep him out of the game for over two months, or possibly for one month.\u00a0 In any event, it’s a safe bet that Davis will be back in time for heavy competition towards the mid-season.\u00a0 Sources are reporting that Davis is getting over two million from the Knicks, which is most assuredly a vote of confidence from New York.<\/p>\n

Davis has been performing well in all of his games, leaving the court last season with an average of 13.1 points and 6.7 assists.\u00a0 Knicks player Carmelo Anthony credited Davis with the Cavaliers’ victory over the Knicks last year.\u00a0 “Everybody knows what he can do when he’s healthy and when he’s focused…they beat us and [Baron Davis] was a big part of those wins.”<\/p>\n

The Knicks weren’t the only ones who were courting Davis for their court.\u00a0 The LA Lakers<\/a> and Miami Heat<\/a> were also expressing interest in Davis, as they too had extra salary-cap space.\u00a0 What probably allowed New York to secure Davis was the fact that they aggressively pursued him even when he was injured.\u00a0 Will their gamble pay off?\u00a0 Since Davis is a proven talent, and still relatively young at 32, any betting man would see a good long-term investment in Davis.<\/p>\n

The biggest “owch” of this scenario is the fact that the Cavaliers still have to honor Davis’ contract, and pay nearly $30 million to a player they don’t even use anymore.\u00a0 At least they’re getting tax benefits!<\/p>\n

What do you think?\u00a0 Was Davis a good investment for New York?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve already seen some “fallout” from the NBA’s new, streamlined budget–the Cavaliers have lost power player Baron Davis.\u00a0 The Cleveland Cavaliers waived Davis a week ago, choosing instead to keep him as an “amnesty player” in an attempt to control their cap figure.\u00a0 However, the New York Knicks wisely signed this new free agent, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}