It's official, the first major piece to the puzzle has been put in place, and his name is Amar'e Stoudemire.
Stoudemire's agent Happy Walters has confirmed the reports and said that the deal is "all done."
The deal is for 5 years and will pay the 27 year-old $100 Million.
Amar'e joins a franchise in much need of a face lift and automatically becomes their best player. He is a player they can build around and hope that this is what it takes to land the biggest fish in the 2010 NBA Free Agency pond, LeBron James.
It's been widely speculated that James preferred Chris Bosh as a running mate but if you look back to the trade deadline of this past NBA season, LeBron wanted the Cavs to go after Amar'e instead of Antwan Jamison.
The idea of Amar'e to New York was reported a couple days ago and has now come to fruition.
As the deal broke through the wire, talk radio flooded with callers saying that this wasn't that big of a deal and that getting Amar'e means nothing if the Knicks do not land LeBron to go with him.
TO WHICH I SAY IS BOLOGNA!
Amar'e is an enormous upgrade over David Lee, another free agent this year. Amar'e is a young power forward and he is better than Chris Bosh. Another plus is his familiarity of Mike D'Antoni and the system he runs. Even if LeBron does not come over the fact that the Knicks did not get "cut out" of the free agency frenzy is a win. They come out as a winner for the simple fact that they scored big with a new face for the franchise.
Welcome to New York Amar'e and I think I can speak for all New York Knicks fans when I say, help them land LeBron and make New York an amazing place for basketball again.
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