Knicks · Chris Smith, JR's kid brother, signed with Knicks (page 1)

hope it's non-guaranteed

"Chris Smith, a point guard from Louisville, played for the Knicks' summer league team in Las Vegas. He could likely be a training camp roster-filler because the team is already stacked at the point with Raymond Felton, Jason Kidd and Pablo Prigioni. A source familiar with the situation said the Knicks acquired Smith so they could assign his rights to their D-League team, the Erie BayHawks."

hes not a PG...hes a SG trapped in a PGs body and he cant shoot...lol...this was simply a good jesture to JR...kinda like thanx for resigning at a low price..we promise to take care of u

arkrud wrote:It is all personal in the Garden.
One big happy family...

They did a solid for jr smith....his brother sucks lol....but i can dig it

Somebody cue the rainbow

technomaster wrote:RealGM has covered this topic ad nauseam. There is nothing written, no one remembers talking about this, it's all based on merit. End of story.

Of course it is not written. That would violate the NBA contract rules. I believe it was made as a "gentlemen's" agreement and Grunwald/Dolan kept to their word.
or
we could just officially say how fortunate we were that JR wanted to come back to play for the Knicks so much that he just took the lower salary we could offer rather than play with another team at a higher salary.

I wonder how many under the table deals teams have done, that's not in writing....like if you sign with us we will buy you a house and move your whole family in for free....hook up family with jobs at cablevision....

who knows...if you can speak to the owner directly and keep everything tight, then it would be tough to prove. But people would have to launch an investigation....if they ever did i think we would find out alot of side deals have been made

EnySpree wrote:Handshake deal...I bet the NBA gm's never did that before

I wonder how many under the table deals teams have done, that's not in writing....like if you sign with us we will buy you a house and move your whole family in for free....hook up family with jobs at cablevision....

who knows...if you can speak to the owner directly and keep everything tight, then it would be tough to prove. But people would have to launch an investigation....if they ever did i think we would find out alot of side deals have been made

I've never heard of them buying a house, which would probably be really easy for the NBA to prove, but plenty of teams hire friends and family of a player. A bunch of Marbury's people were hired by the Knicks when he was here and I remember reading that the Cavs hired a bunch of Lebron's people.