Zach Randolph to Stay with Knicks and Jerome James Still Warming the Bench

The New York Knicks have reportedly passed on a deal that would have sent Power Forward/Center, Zach Randolph to the Memphis Grizzlies for Marko Jaric and Darko Milicic.

Knicks General Manager, Donnie Walsh, refused to add a first-round pick to the deal.

Wow, what a team Mike D'Antoni would have had, that is, if he could have gotten his hands on two more European players.

Both Milicic and Jaric have arguably not played up to their potential, but they could have blossomed under D’Antoni’s run-and-gun system.

Randolph averaged 17.6 points and 10.3 rebounds per game last season, but he’s not exactly the kind of player his numbers make him out to be.

In addition, when you look at what the Knicks are going to pay him in the next three years, you might get a stomach ache: $14.6 this coming season, $16 million next season, and $17.3 million in 2010-11 – the last year of his contract.

Overall, the total is $48 million. Ouch! That’s a lot of cash.

And you though the Sacramento Kings had it bad for paying Kenny Thomas $16 million over the next two years. Thomas’s contract, though it is bad, is nothing in comparison to Randolph’s.

D'Antoni’s quickly finding out that he’s going to just have to ride this one out in the Big Apple.

Remember that moron Jerome James, who after helping the Seattle Sonics defeat the Sacramento Kings in the playoffs, signed a $30 million dollar contract with the Knicks?

Remember that trash bag he carried onto the court after the Kings lost? Yeah, well the Kicks are paying him $6.2 million this coming season and he’s never amounted to anything.

So that’s what you get Jerome James!

You’re a big letdown and the only reason I say that is because of that stuff you did when the Sonics beat the Kings.

Two points and 1.5 rebounds per game last year? $6.2 million this coming season—priceless.

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