"Let's say the Knicks were to retain Lee at $11 million and Robinson at $6 million for 2010-11. Their committed payroll, including Curry, Jeffries, Chandler, Gallinari, the 2009 first-round pick and five phantoms, would be $46 to $49 million.

That doesn't leave them enough money to make a max offer to even one premiere free agent when the Summer of LeBron comes along.

So unless Walsh pulls off the unfathomable and trades away both Jeffries and Curry without including Lee and Robinson in such deals, there simply ain't enough room in this town, cap-room-wise in 2010, for James, Bosh, Lee and Krypto-Nate. "

The economy (and the salary cap) sucks.

I love the part where Steph says ""It can't be about money..." because that's not the whole reason why the Knicks have been having problems with him on figuring out how to buy out his contract, or anything. The quotes from this whole article reek of a snobby, conceited and washed up basketball player who thinks that he's the best thing since sliced bread. I don't agree with the way the Knicks have taken care of this whole situation in general, but it's really, REALLY hard for me to defend Marbury in this case.

(Ed. Note: From the Fanshots. Sad news for Mr. Mobley and the Knicks. We would've liked to have his shooting and defense in the backcourt.)

The Knicks will be at a press conference later today to confirm what has already been pretty much assumed: Cuttino Mobley will retire. Mobley's condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, has already claimed the lives of two other basketball players: Hank Gathers and Reggie Lewis.