[轉錄][外電] Knicks' Lee sets up workout with Sun …
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時間: Thu May 15 16:34:19 2008
http://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/ny-spknix0515,0,1616858.story
BY ALAN HAHN
Leave it to the resourceful David Lee to immediately find the best tutor
possible to get an early start on the Mike D'Antoni system.
Lee said after he heard D'Antoni had accepted the job as the Knicks' coach,
he sent a text message to Steve Nash. The two-time MVP point guard of the
Phoenix Suns, who spends most of his offseason at his Greenwich Village flat,
replied with a promise to work out with Lee this summer in New York.
"This plays perfectly into what I'm trying to do," Lee said of the up-tempo
system, which is similar to what he played under Billy Donovan at Florida.
"My advantage against other bigs is I'm quicker and faster; I'm never going
to be stronger than most of the fours or fives at this level, though I am
always trying to get stronger and I will always compete physically.
"So I was very excited to see [D'Antoni] took the job here in New York."
Lee spoke Wednesday while apartment hunting in Manhattan, a day after
D'Antoni was introduced as the third Knicks coach Lee will play for in four
years. The turnover has been unsettling, but the timing of the latest change
couldn't be better for his game if perhaps not for his wallet.
Lee is heading into the final year of his rookie contract and could become a
restricted free agent next summer. This is usually the time teams try to lock
up their young players so as to avoid having to contend with offer sheets
from other teams. Nate Robinson is also heading into his final year before
restricted free agency.
While Robinson will make $2,020,179 next season, Lee will make $1,788,003,
which is the fourth-lowest on the current payroll. By rule the Knicks only
need to make one-year commitments to both restricted free agents to keep
them, but that only works if no other NBA team attempts to sign the player to
an offer sheet. The Knicks obviously have the resources to match any offer,
but, considering Donnie Walsh's goal to not compromise his salary-cap
situation for the summer of 2010, it is not a given the Knicks will want to
make a long-term commitment to either young player.
And Lee is well aware of that. "That's up to them," he said. "I can't control
that. If that's something they want to do then that's a decision they have to
make."
It might also create one for Lee, who has repeatedly said he wants to be a
Knick for the rest of his career. In fact, Isiah Thomas once said that Lee
could be one of those rare NBA players that spends his entire career with the
team that drafted him. The arrival of the D'Antoni style -- in which he fits
well -- is a bonus.
"This makes it more likely that hopefully I'll be with the Knicks and be one
of the younger guys they want long-term because of my ability to play well in
that system," Lee said. "It looks like, on paper, a match made in heaven for
me. It's up to the Knicks."
It isn't for everyone on the roster, especially the player who currently
starts ahead of Lee at power forward, Zach Randolph. There is little doubt
that Walsh will try to move Randolph, who has a hefty contract that maxes out
at $17.1 million in 2010-11. That could create room for Lee or it could
result in Lee being part of the package to sweeten the deal.
Lee couldn't deny that anything is possible right now with the Knicks.
"If there's been this many changes at the top of the ladder, you can probably
assume there will be some changes at the bottom," Lee said. "What changes I
have no idea."
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