Don't hate. Eddy Curry has an NBA ring. LOL!!!

I heard this guy was going to hire Chris Washburn as his next agent...

These NBA cats obviously don't watch the reality series "Basketball Wives". If they did they wouldn't associate with these ****.

We live in a world where J.R. Smith gets fined for tweeting a photo of a piece of tail, yet the woman in question seems proud of her association with this nonsense. For her, this is nothing but a career move.

Oden's body not being up to the rigors of professional basketball is unfortunate for all parties involved.

Allen Iverson being broke after all the money HE made is a travesty.

This is payback for inundating us hapless basketball fans with "The Dougie".

This is payback for inundating us hapless basketball fans with "The Dougie".

He's never been the same player since Baron Davis dunked on him.

Too bad, AK-47 is such a cool nickname...

He won't have enough money left to move, even though it's with a team that plays in the same arena.

Supposedly Kobe has no pre-nup, and California has the toughest divorce laws when it comes to aplitting assets in the country. Not only is she getting HALF after all the money she's already spent, she gets the house AND spousal support going forward.

Man, is this going to cost him some bread!!!

This may sound crazy, but I think Sebastian Telfair would do well under Mike D'Antoni's system. He can't shoot but he won't need to. All he has to do is pass to Amare and Carmelo and try not to get burnt to a crisp on defense.

There you go-problem solved.

The Knicks missed out on signing Jamal Crawford, who apparently didn't want to be back in NY because he signed for Portland for the same exact contract terms.

What happened? I thought everyone wanted to play here?

The Knicks need to be patient and not go out looking for a bunch of retreaded bums like Outlaw and Davis. Unless it's New York desire to sign a fat point guard whose athleticism has already deserted him and ain't coming back, they need to stay away from this loser.

The Knicks have sucked FOR YEARS, haven't won a championship since Superfly and Shaft roamed the gritty streets of New York, and the NBA is just coming off one of its' best seasons ever, so I don't know what you're referring to.

The Hornets are one of four teams that should have been put forced to contract, along with Sacramento, Toronto, and Charlotte. This would have changed the competitive balance in the league for the better much so than a 50-50 BRI split.

As for the money, you see some players taking less than the max contract to play for a winning team. That should tell you guys something. And as for small vs. big markets, don't expect New Jersey to retain the services of Darron Williams if they can't get Dwight Howard even though they'll be in NYC soon.

Chris Paul has put in his time with a loser team in a city that cannot generate sufficient revenue to make them an attractive alternative for other free agents. He deserves to go where he wants. As for the Knicks trade, no one will trade for Paul and give up assets just so he can leave in a few months. So trading Paul's expiring contract with Billups' makes the most sense. They can't do anything else.

These small market teams are hindered not by being in small markets alone. Michael Jordan is responsible for two of the worst first-round picks in NBA history, and now he wants to take a hardline approach to player salaries. He needs a general manager who knows what he's doing-look what happened in Memphis last year? Want a smaller market than that?

Making a break for it, these guys will get arrested at the airport and will be taken to a Chinese jail where their internal organs will be removed and sold.

Then they'll be let out of the country.

I say we bring back Caldwell Jones.

Curry is nothing but a taller, fatter version of Bookman from "Good Times". Dy-No-Mite he is not.

Why do mid-market teams deserve to keep players when it's obvious they can't or won't improve their respective teams?

Carmelo Anthony was in Denver for 7 years, Lebron was in Cleveland for an eternity. How much more time does a franchise need?

Cleveland is in a terrible spot because no free agents want to live and work there. That's the harsh reality. Bosh did not want to go there, so James had no choice but to leave. Denver got as far as they possibly could with their current set-up, and I don't blame Anthony for wanting to look for a new start elsewhere.

When a team focuses on clearing salary cap space instead of making deals to bring in complimentary players to take a franchise to the next level, their star players have a right to leave.

How long do players like Deron Williams, Chris Paul and others have to play with dog franchises who won't spend money to compete, or can't or won't make trades to improve themselves?

Just look at what Boston did. They traded their best defensive low-post presence because they didn't want to lose him to free agency without compensation. They thought he was asking for too much money when renegotiating a new contract, yet with this bonehead move, one of the worst in the history of the league, they just cost themselves the title.

And with their collective age, they only had one-two more years at the most. It's all downhill for them next year. So instead of two or three titles in as many years, they will only garner one. One title that will up costing them a lot more money than Perkins was asking for.

Being a mid-market team didn't stop Oklahoma City from improving themselves...what's stopping the other teams in similar markets besides brain-dead front office executives who are bad at their jobs?

O.J. Mayo has always been overrated, and he's been more of a mercenary businessman than a ballplayer ever since the 7th or 8th grade.

He went to USC to be able to market himself more effectively, and all he did was screw up the program and land them in trouble.

The adults in his life have been a problem and are at the root cause of where he is as a player right now. Like Sebastian Telfair and "Mr. Born Ready" himself Lance Stephenson, he will fade into irrelevancy in the league. No major endorsements, no guaranteed multi-jillion dollar contract extension for him. He'll get paid of course, more than anyone here on this forum, but he will never be the player he and his entourage envisioned back when he was getting paid big bucks on the high school AAU circuit.

Why would the Knicks entertain a trade for Melo at this time when all they have to do is wait until the end of the season and they can sign him without having to lose players they can use to get someone else?

The reality is, they need a better point guard to really get things going. Chris Paul is the name that comes to mind, or even Deron Williams. These two guys are going to be available in the near future, and the Knicks cannot afford not to sign a better PG to complete a "Big 3" for their team.

These high-quality soon-to-be free agents deserve to go where they can win. Why get stuck on a team where you as the point guard are the best player and team management will not or cannot get better players to put around you?

Both Williams and Paul are wasting their talents in small-market teams that perennially go nowhere in the playoffs. One of these cats is going to wind up in New York, the other either in Orlando (if Howard signs a long-term extension) or LA.

Orlando or New York need to make a deal with Charlotte. Either team could benefit from having Stephen Jackson and Gerald Wallace on their squad.

I'm a Knicks fan too, but did you see the game on Friday? Gallinari got owned by Lebron, no one was able to guard Wade and Stoudemire was getting triple-team while the other Knicks just stood around instead of aggressively cutting to the basket. When Amare did pass his teammates couldn't do anything with it.

To say the Knicks are a player away is ludicrous. This team suffers from bad coaching. D'Antoni needs to teach these guys a half-court offense, because fast-breaking isn't what playoff basketball is about in the East. And they don't play defense, another signature of a D'Antoni-led team.

Absolutely. Unless he plans on signing with Chicago or New Jersey.

We should be asking where LaLa wants to go. It seems as if she's wearing the pants in the family.

The problem with the Nuggets is their point guard. Mr. Big Shot is done. His best years are behind him, and instead of leaving Denver Melo should be lobbying to trade Billups for another soon-to-be free agent who isn't going to stay with his team-Chris Paul.

Denver needs to revitalize the point guard position. Maybe then Melo will stay.