With all of the talk about Crawford. How about this three way trade:
Cleveland Gives up:
Larry Hughes
Drew Gooden
Ira Newble
Shannon Brown
Cleveland gets back
Mike Bibby
Jamal Crawford
Kings give up:
Mike Bibby
Kenny Thomas
Get Back:
Drew Gooden
Malik Rose
Jerome James
Knicks give up
Jamal Crawford
Malik Rose
Jerome James
Knicks get back
Larry Hughes
Kenny Thomas
Ira Newble
Shannon Brown
Knicks do it to lose two bad contracts and a player that is likes to score more than play defense(recognizing that starbucks is not going anywhere) and they get expiring good attitude guy Ira. Yeah they get back a bad contract in Kenny Thomas, but essentially he replaces Jerome James, so what is the downside?
Kings do it to load up on some bigs. Malik is about an even trade for thomas except he expires earlier, and Jerome is a true center body that the kings don't have (maybe they'll get lucky and Jerome will lay off the donuts. And gooden is a good fit for their squad.
We do it for the obvious reasons. Larry is exchanged for Bibby (true point for not a true point) and we can fill Larry's shoes defensively with Pavs or Devin Brown. We also get Jamal who actually is the scoring sixth man we wanted Larry to be.
Have to get productive minutes out of Donyell, Cedric and/or Dw for this to work.
I also saw where Isiah has ruled out adding big contracts like Hughes, but if he were able to get out of Jerome and Malik at the same time, he might just do it.