Big Name Hunting?

In the past day or so, both the Knicks' Donnie Walsh and the Rangers' Glenn Sather have said they are not done. In both cases the men seemed to be implying big things instead of small. For example, Sather talked about needing more scoring, and not leaving it all up to Marian Gaborik. Marc Berman of the Post got the idea that the Knicks were looking for an outside shooter, and were also looking to trade Eddy Curry and Wilson Chandler.

So what could this mean? In the Rangers' case I still think they are waiting for Ilya Kovalchuk to come to them for a price they can handle. And then I think we would see Brandon Dubinsky packaged with Rozsival for some cap relief. None of that would bother me. Kovalchuk's a better LW than Dubinsky, and we have other kids in the system who will also be better.

The Knicks' case, is a little more sinister. They felt absolutely jilted by LeBron the other day, and since then there has been all sorts of chatter about Carmello Anthony. That could be the shooter they are alluding to, though it takes him way too many shots to get his points, and he needs to drive more, rebound more, pass better, and play better D, if he wants to be what he can be. The other noise we're constantly hearing is about Chris Paul. I had heard a rumor at the beginning of the year that either he would somehow be the next Knick PG. The rumors have emerged again in the wake of the LeBron debacle. Paul is a truly great player and worth a lot. That wouldn't bother me. But we'll have to see if we still have Gallinari and Randolph when the music of this crazy summer stops.

In both cases, the mission from MSG this offseason seems to have been "Get big names."