The Linimum

 Coming up to the All-star games  things are looking a little different. Early on I predicted this years game changers  would be the scufflers.(Players who weren't even guaranteed to make the team.) At  the time I was hoping Memphis would be the one with the most luck. The walkout didn' t  help the players but it did help some of the teams.We got Jeremy Pargo and Mareese Speights as a result. Speights is putting up Zach Randolph numbers. All in all we haven't  done too bad. Just not as good as the New York Knicks. They got Jeremy Lin for a steal. The hottest player since the seventies. He was signed for the linimum. 

02New York Knicks           Date    # of      total
Player                   signed   years     salary     misc          FA
Mike Bibby ............ 12/11/11    1      minimum                  '12
Baron Davis ........... 12/19/11    1      minimum                  '12
Landry Fields .........  8/26/10    2      minimum                  '12
Josh Harrellson ....... 12/11/11    1      minimum                  '12
Jared Jeffries ........ 12/11/11    1      minimum                  '12
Jerome Jordan ......... 12/15/11    1      minimum                  '12
Jeremy Lin ............ 12/27/11    1      minimum                  '12
Steve Novak ........... 12/21/11    1      minimum                  '12
J.R. Smith ............  2/17/12    1      minimum                  '12
Bill Walker ...........  8/22/08    4      minimum                  '12
Toney Douglas .........  7/10/09    4     $5,280,760    rc          '13
Carmelo Anthony ....... 7/17/03,7/12/06,2/22/11 4+5+3
                                       $15,108,241+$80mill+$35mill  '14Tyson Chandler ........ 12/10/11    4    $58 million                '15
Iman Shumpert ......... 12/11/11    4     $7,415,553    rc    t-opt '14+15
Amare Stoudemire ......   7/8/10    5    $99.7 million              '15