Lots of wasted salary on Knicks

The Knicks are headed in the right direction despite signing Chris Duhon, a player whose off-court activities last year have been in question. It’s amazing the number of players that they have eating up money on the books. The most obvious is Stephon Marbury, whose $21 million-plus salary makes him unable to be traded. Zach Randolph, at over $14.5 million, at least gave the Knicks some production last year, but next year they’ll owe over $6 million to players like Jared Jefferies, who was traded to Portland for Randolph, Jerome James and Malik Rose. By contrast David Lee, a player outside teams are actually interested in won’t even crack the $2 million threshold next year. You can’t blame players from wanting to score. It skews everything, including what it appears they’re worth.