First Jason Kidd. Then Grant Hill. Now add point guard Andre Miller to those who have spurned the Knicks for more money elsewhere.
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“It just proves and confirms to me that if you’re not in a good cap position and are not flexible enough, you can’t compete with those who can up the stakes,” Knicks president Donnie Walsh said after Miller accepted a reported three-year, $21 million deal to join the Blazers yesterday.
The Knicks offered Miller one year at $5.8 million.
The Knicks still are looking at the Bucks’ Ramon Sessions and the Pacers’ Jamaal Tinsley for point guard depth.
Walsh said he will meet with Tinsley, who recently resolved his situation in Indiana, “sometime next week.”
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The Nets’ coaching staff lost one member with another still on hold yesterday.
Assistant Brian Hill, as expected, accepted a multi-year deal to join John Kuester’s staff in Detroit. Sources in Detroit said Hill received a three-year deal worth more than $1.2 million.
“Brian is going to Detroit,” team president Rod Thorn said. “He is a terrific coach and a better guy.”
Hill, along with the other members of Lawrence Frank’s staff, recently took a pay cut of about one-third. Assistant Roy Rogers, meanwhile, still is considering a multi-year offer from Rutgers.
It is not clear how the Nets will rework their staff.
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All is status quo on the Nets’ free-agent front. . . . Though admitting it would be a long shot that “probably won’t happen,” one Nets source insisted Glen “Big Baby” Davis could return to the Nets radar. The Celtics are expected to match any offer.