haggerty@akov01.DEC (Doubleplusgood) (05/13/85)
As if the balance of power wasn't already in the East,
the New York Knicks now have the rights to Patrick Ewing.
This is sure to turn the Knicks into more than a legitimate
contender for the Division title.
For the past two years, it has been said that their (the Knicks)
division has been the most powerful in the NBA. What does
Ewing's coming to New York make it now? The most powerful
in the history of the NBA ???
I can only hope and pray that New York will be so constrained
by the salary cap that they will have to dilute some of their
talent in order to sign Patrick.
Golden State has the worst record in the league and they
get seventh pick. Teriffic. I hope this is the first and
last time we see Commissioner Stern's idea of a good time.
Go Boston!
- kevin
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ARPA: haggerty%akov01.DEC@decwrl.ARPAbd@peora.UUCP (Bernie Dougan) (05/17/85)
> > As if the balance of power wasn't already in the East, > the New York Knicks now have the rights to Patrick Ewing. > This is sure to turn the Knicks into more than a legitimate > contender for the Division title. > > For the past two years, it has been said that their (the Knicks) > division has been the most powerful in the NBA. What does > Ewing's coming to New York make it now? The most powerful > in the history of the NBA ??? > > I can only hope and pray that New York will be so constrained > by the salary cap that they will have to dilute some of their > talent in order to sign Patrick. I think I read that the Knicks salary cap was $4.8 million and that they had about $2 million available. They should be able to sign Ewing without losing anyone else. > Golden State has the worst record in the league and they > get seventh pick. Teriffic. I hope this is the first and > last time we see Commissioner Stern's idea of a good time. I agree. This really is an unfair system. > Go Boston! > > > - kevin > > UUCP: {allegra, decvax, ihnp4, ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov01!haggerty > ARPA: haggerty%akov01.DEC@decwrl.ARPA -- Bernie Dougan Perkin-Elmer Southern Development Center 2486 Sand Lake Road Orlando, Florida 32809 (305)850-1040
gronowski@shorty.DEC (05/18/85)
I think it's time to be a bit more realistic about Patrick Ewing and the New York Knicks. All I've been hearing lately is that NY is going to be awesome... even that they have a chance to become NBA Champions next year. Give me a break. The same was said about Sampson... Houston didn't do it in his rookie year. In fact, they were still bad enough to get Akeem "The Dream" the next year. Both of which are so called "franchaise players." Even with the Twin Towers they couldn't do it. Certainly they have improved, but they weren't in the same division as Philadelphia and Boston. Certainly Ewing will be a force in the NBA for years to come, but I think it's going to take him a little while to adjust to the NBA and especially Hubie Brown.
roy@hpmtla.UUCP (roy) (05/21/85)
> >I can only hope and pray that New York will be so constrained >by the salary cap that they will have to dilute some of their >talent in order to sign Patrick. > If the salary cap is such a restriciton, how come the Lakers and Celtics never seem restricted by it. I'm not being sarcastic, I really never did understand how a salary cap could be imposed with teams such as this. Does anyone have actual salary data available? roy
samuels@h-sc1.UUCP (ronald samuels) (05/24/85)
> > > >I can only hope and pray that New York will be so constrained > >by the salary cap that they will have to dilute some of their > >talent in order to sign Patrick. > > > > If the salary cap is such a restriciton, how come the Lakers > and Celtics never seem restricted by it. I'm not being > sarcastic, I really never did understand how a salary cap > could be imposed with teams such as this. Does anyone have > actual salary data available? > > roy They ARE restricted by it. Unfortunately don't have the data on me, but simply put there is a limit to how much a team can be paying in salary each year (probably more complicated by differed payments and such). What may be of interest to people, is that I was recently reading that the Knicks have about 2 million dollars to fool around with next year (I think it was something like someone who hasn't played finally had his contract run out), so they have plenty of money even for Ewing. -- Ron Samuels Harvard University Science Center ...harvard!h-sc1!samuels (or better yet) ...harvard!h-sc4!samuels_b