Are we going to be a major player in FA in 2009?

[DavidSomerset]

Who are the big free agents that year?

Seems to me that with Bibby coming off the books (15M), we will have a whole lot of money to play around with.

I know Marvin will be an RFA...Unless he improves a lot, I'm fine SNT'ing him for draft picks or whatever if we could get a really good FA in here in his place.

[ COUGH ] Ron Artest [ COUGH ]

[TheNorthCydeRises]

I won't list the restricted free agents. Just the unrestricted guys and the guys who could opt out of their contract.

UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS

Stephon Marbury

Andre Miller

Rasheed Wallace

Antonio McDyess

Shawn Marion

Lamar Odom

Grant Hill

Ron Artest

Jason Kidd

Mike Bibby

Allen Iverson

PLAYER OPTION IN SUMMER 2009:

Jamal Crawford

Eddy Curry

( note: both would be crazy to exercise their player option, especially Curry, who will be due another cool 20 million in 2 years, if he stays. )

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Hedi Turkoglu

Mement Okur

Carlos Boozer

Kobe Bryant

[jezmund]

Bad year for FA's. Pretty much all of those players are past their prime or wouldn't consider coming here anyways. Ron Artest is really the only player I'd want and he's likely to go to some big name team if not the Knicks.

[ATLBob]

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Ron Artest is really the only player I'd want.

Haha, my same thoughts. I would have been nervous about RonRon in the ATL years ago, but he's mellowed with age.

Artest's game should be Marvin's blueprint. Seriously.