11/09/2010

Knicks wanted David Lee alongside Amar'e Stoudemire


via NYDailynews.com


The deal allowed Lee to get the money he wanted - $80 million - but the Knicks felt he wasn't worth such a big contract, not when they needed to address several other positions after losing out on LeBron James and signing Stoudemire to a $100 million max contract. Now playing for another team that is rebuilding, Lee has said he could have played with Stoudemire.

"He probably could have," team president Donnie Walsh said after practice Monday in Greenburgh, when the 3-3 Knicks prepared for Tuesday night's game in Milwaukee against the struggling 2-5 Bucks. "But he wanted what he got. And we couldn't have done the same things if we did that. And that was, fill out the whole team. We needed more than just one player."


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