Knicks Willing to Trade Their Pick?

Great Ceasar's Ghost, rumors abound that the Knicks might be angling to trade their top pick for a vetran.  Of course, since they can't trade first in back to back years, they'd have to make th pick and trade that player for someone on draft night or thereafter.   There's NO WAY this makes any sense.

Even though the Knicks will have cap room, to make the most of it they could really use a rookie contract - and not trade that contract for a bigger deal that will consume more cap and thus limit their ability to put 4 players around Melo.  Whereas if they make the pick, that number is just 3 and the cap room would probably be there.

Feels like the Knicks see the Rangers trading firsts and improving, but that formula cannot work in the NBA as the Knicks keep proving.  The Rangers can control 50 contracts at a time, and participate in 8 round drafts.   The Knicks can't control nearly that number and only have 2 round drafts - generally with no first round picks.  That leaves them with diminishing returns as we've seen forever. Hell, the Bulls picked Scottie Pippen with one of our ones.   And it's continued.

So, the Knicks better forget that plan and just make their pick.  They'll get a great cost controlled kid.