How can the New York Knicks rebuild their franchise?

Isiah Thomas has been given the chance to turn the franchise around this season as the new head coach. Is there a way for him to turn the team around or will it be a slow rebuilding process? How can the Knicks become a competitive team again and how long will it take?

The Knicks are boned for a few years. They have too many guys that no one else will really want to take in any kind of trade b/c of their salaries and questionable attitudes. So it's a waiting process for some contracts to run out. Guys like Frye, Lee & Ariza are the only ones that could have any real future playing for the Knicks as Frye can be a productive starter and the other two can be solid off the bench types. Thomas I think actually helped the team by drafting a crappy player. That way he won't have to worry about finding the guy playing time. One less headache for him.

If somehow the Knicks could unload Francis, Rose, James & Mo T (maybe Crawford too if both he and Starbury don't want to play the point still) and get some picks/cash/veteran role players then they could turn it around immediately if everyone buys into Thomas as a coach. Now they wouldn't be contenders, but they'd be a 30-40 win team with that talent playing together.

That'd make the starting 5 something like:
PG - Marbury
SG - Q Rich
SF - Lee (or whoever else can play some D at the 3)
PF - Curry/Frye
C - Curry/Frye

Bottom line though is that they just got too much crap, and not enough shovels in the MSG locker room right now.

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