According to ESPN’s Marc Stein, the Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, and Sacramento Kings have struck a deal. For the Knicks, it is another step in the plan initiated by Donnie Walsh to curb foolish spending and aim towards free agency. For the Rockets, it is the dawn of a new day, the divorce from [...]
The Houston Rockets have just received Kevin Martin, Jordan Hill, the right to swap 2011 draft picks with the New York Knicks (top 1 protected), and the Knicks’ 2012 pick (top 5 protected). All for the cost of Tracy McGrady’s contract and Carl Landry. (They also took back Jared Jeffries and Hilton Armstrong in the [...]
These were my thoughts after news of the initial deal last night sending Kevin Martin to the Houston Rockets for Carl Landry.
Amidst the slew of tweets and beat updates, there has been an almost surreal feel to the past 24 hours. Basketball’s Mecca lies vacant, in yearn of a King. Standing between New York’s Knickerbockers and eternal salvation has been the man I have been attempting to cover for the past three months.
Perhaps the most striking element of the Tracy McGrady Debate has been a revisionist tendency exhibited by his detractors. There exists a notion that, to the convenient omission of his obvious physical decline, McGrady’s most recent struggles are simply the latest proof of an allegedly inherent incompatibility with ‘winning basketball.’ This assertion is then oft [...]
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