NBA Salary Cap stuff/ some love for Shaq

I find the economics of sports interesting...well atleast more interesting than regular economics.

Here is an article that talks about the NBA and the drop in the salary cap for this year and the year after.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4312837

This could be especially bad news for a team like the Knicks who have been trying to get under the salary cap so they can make free agent bids on Lebron James.

Hopefully for Lebron James sake the Knicks can't entice him to come and play there.

The Knicks have been a screwed up franchise for a long time. The moment they resigned Allen Houston to a 6 year $100 million dollar contract is the day I knew that the Knicks were going to stink for a long time. He became the highest paid player in the league. I doubt most sports fans would think of Allan Houston when it came to highest paid. He was never anywhere near the best player in the league. Houston was a great player. Houston was not worth anything close to that amount of money. The Knicks continued to make bonehead signings like Clarence Weatherspoon for 5 years $27 million

Neither of those guys are worth that money. Neither would be the top two in a big three (Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce/Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol/Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman or Toni Kukoc) Weatherspoon was a bench player. Houston could be the third piece of a puzzle. The Knicks wasted money on people who weren't worth it and they just got themselves stuck in salary cap troubles and they traded away too many draft picks over the years.

The Knicks also famously passed up on Ron Artest for some overseas guy who never played. Artest had already played in the Garden at St. Johns and was successful in college. (yet another shining person from St. Johns huh?)

So this news could make life even worse for the Knicks. It all started with their bonehead drafting, and free agent signings. Atleast it's fun watching the Knicks lose.

I have also been trying to think of some of the most quotable athletes. Some of the athletes that are fun to interview and easy to understand. I think that Shaq is by far the best quote in all of sports. Charles Barkley is up there. Many NFL players are up there too. I just don't think any of them have anything on Shaq.