Dwyane Wade Signing With The Knicks Would Be A Disaster
NY Daily News- If Dwyane Wade does the unexpected and leaves Miami he could end up in one of two places; Los Angeles (Clippers) or New York. For Wade to join the Clippers and his good buddy Chris Paul it would take some creativity since the Clippers are over the salary cap. The Knicks and Carmelo Anthony have the cap space but would Wade want to join a team that won 17 games last season?
After giving the Heat financial flexibility in recent years to sign, among others LeBron James, the All-Star guard is looking for a big pay day. The biggest drawback is that Wade will turn 34 next season and hasn’t played more than 70 games since the 2010-11 season. He’s missed 48 games over the last two seasons.
I understand the way the media works during a slow news cycle. The Knicks are a month away from the draft and there are no Finals games until next week. So Frank Isola is going to start throwing some big names around and see what sticks (and how many people click). But still, just the thought of Dwyane Wade ending up in a Knicks uniform scares the shit out of me, because that is something this franchise would absolutely do.
The team finally got out from Amar’e Stoudemire’s contract and it’s hard to think of Wade as anything but a superstar that has already started to break down. He is a 33 year old player entering his 13th NBA season with injury problems that caused him to miss 48 games over the last two seasons. If any team should pay for his past accomplishments instead of his future potential, it should be the Heat. He took pay cuts that allowed LeBron to take his talents to South Beach and then help the team stay somewhat afloat last season. But Pat Riley is a cold, smart man and won’t do that. Enter Jim Dolan, who is a cold, stupid man and would probably love a “quick fix” to the worst season in franchise history.
I would say Phil Jackson is smart enough to avoid a disaster like this, but I truly don’t know if Phil has any pull in MSG after the way last year went. Derek Fisher and the team were a joke, and Isiah is back in the flesh at 2 Penn Plaza, with Bum Ass Steve Mills (his official name on his birth certificate) playing Knicks GM for the time being. Let Wade go to Cleveland to see if he can win any titles as Robin to LeBron’s Batman Hawkeye to LeBron’s Incredible Hulk. If the Knicks are going to suck, I want it to be with young guys that have potential and little-to-no injury history. And Melo, who is, well, Melo. But it’s not up to me. It’s up to what Isiah Thomas says (probably), as he gently caresses Jim Dolan on a beach in the Hamptons. Just another day in shitty the life of a Knicks fan.