ChosenFEW

can you guys still believe that we traded away Marcus Camby and the number 7 pick in the draft for antonio Mcdyess..........that still gives me nightmares.........say what you will i'd rather have isiah thomas over layden anyday........

we also got rid of spree that same year for van horn i think or the next year that happened....

heres a list of the people that were taken in the 2002 draft and who we couldve drafted

PICK	TEAM	SELECTION
1	Houston	Yao Ming, C, Shanghai Sharks
2	Chicago	Jay Williams, G, Duke
3	Golden State	Mike Dunleavy, G/F, Duke
4	Memphis	Drew Gooden, F, Kansas
5	Denver	Nikoloz Tskitishvili, F, Italy
6	Cleveland	Dajuan Wagner, G, Memphis
7	New York	Maybyner "Nene" Hilario, F/C, Brazil (Rights traded to Denver)
8	L.A. Clippers (from Atlanta)	Chris Wilcox, F, Maryland
9	Phoenix	Amare Stoudemire, F, Cypress Creek HS (Fla.)
10	Miami	Caron Butler, F, Connecticut
11	Washington	Jared Jeffries, F, Indiana
12	L.A. Clippers	Melvin Ely, F/C, Fresno State
13	Milwaukee	Marcus Haislip, F, Tennessee
14	Indiana	Fred Jones, G, Oregon
15	Houston (from Toronto)	Bostjan Nachbar, F, Italy
16	Philadelphia	Jiri Welsch, G, Slovenia (Rights traded to Golden State)
17	Washington (from New Orleans)	Juan Dixon, G, Maryland
18	Orlando	Curtis Borchardt, C, Stanford (Rights traded to Utah)
19	Utah	Ryan Humphrey, F, Notre Dame (Rights traded to Orlando)
20	Toronto (from Seattle via New York)	Kareem Rush, G, Missouri (Rights traded to L.A. Lakers)
21	Portland	Qyntel Woods, G/F, Northeast Mississippi CC
22	Phoenix (from Boston)	Casey Jacobsen, G/F, Stanford
23	Detroit	Tayshaun Prince, F, Kentucky
24	New Jersey	Nenad Krstic, F/C, Yugoslavia

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Tragedy

Trust me, I think about it alot because I wanted the Knicks to take a gamble on Amare Stoudemire. I just had THAT feeling about him before the draft.

Some gamble that would have been, huh?

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"If I had to pick the best player in the game, he [Kobe] certainly is up there right now".. "It seems as though he's got the edge over anybody in that position, if not in the league right now."-Michael Jordan

truth

I was just thinking the same thing as I was reading an article on the worst all time trades..They didnt mention that trade,but trading Camby and potentially Amare for McKnee has to be the worst trade ever.....

ChosenFEW

tell me about it.........


it wasnt like amare was a hidden gem either i mean he was picked only 2 picks later..........people new amare had game, 30p 15r 6 blocks a game his senior year.........i remember seing him in the mcdonalds dunk contest he looked huge....it was like he was a man and everybody else was just little kids..........

camby at center and amare at PF for the knicks.......WOW.......too bad

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ChosenFEW

my thoughts exactly.....it has to be up there with some of the worst.

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Tragedy

I think im gonna be nauseous.

Damn Layden

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"If I had to pick the best player in the game, he [Kobe] certainly is up there right now".. "It seems as though he's got the edge over anybody in that position, if not in the league right now."-Michael Jordan

NYKBaller

it doesn't matter Layden said he would have taken Jeffries so it doesnt make a difference...

Chef

"General Managing for Dummies" by Scott Layden

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Robinson isn't a great player for his height. Robinson is simply one of the best guards in college basketball. End of sentence. End of story. No ifs, ands or buts needed.

ChosenFEW

lets not forget frederick weiss over ron artest too...........



i was watching the yes network and vince carter had an interview on the show Center stage or something like that.... well they were talking about the olympics and the dunk that vince carter did jumping over frederick weiss,.....well basically he said after he made that dunk the knicks basically told frederick weiss not too even bother showing up to the knicks squad...........

quite sad actually.....

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Chef

Actually Weis plays for my hometown team here in Spain... He plays good defense because of his intimidating presence in the paint... But he is a bit soft sometimes... and he hasn't any offensive skill

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Robinson isn't a great player for his height. Robinson is simply one of the best guards in college basketball. End of sentence. End of story. No ifs, ands or buts needed.

kidd2108

my only question is how did layden stay around soooooooooooo long??? The best memory i had of him was in that same 2002 draft....do you all remember when all the knick fans in MSG where yellling FIRE LAYDEN!!!! FIRE LAYDEN!!!!
That is by far the best memory of layden i have. Hey, i dont wanna warn any1,but isiah already traded our pick next year and the year after that!!!! (for curry) so, theyre getting our lotter pik, i swear it really hurts to be a knick fan.

truth

Speaking of Camby,hes probably the best center in the league right now..Last night,21 points,21 rebounds and four blocks.....

kidd2108