Report: New York Knicks to Sign Free Agents Shannon Brown, Earl Clark

February 25th, 2014 by Joe Flynn Leave a reply »

The floundering New York Knicks have acted quickly to fill two vacant roster spots by signing veteran free agents Earl Clark and Shannon Brown, per ESPN's Chris Broussard:





Starting with Thursday night's game against the Miami Heat, New York will play seven games in 10 days. They will likely need fresh bodies, given Iman Shumpert's injury and the always tenuous condition of Amar'e Stoudemire's knees. So at least they've put some thought into the actual implementation of these 10-day contracts.

Now, to the players themselves. Earl Clark was waived by the Philadelphia 76ers on Feb. 21 after being acquired in a trade for center Spencer Hawes. Before the trade, he had played 45 games for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He is a perfectly mediocre power forward who is virtually unplayable on offense (-0.4 offensive win shares in 2013-14, -0.2 total offensive win shares in his last three seasons).

Clark also just so happens to play the same position as Carmelo Anthony. Given the fact that coach Mike Woodson has been playing Anthony an average of 40.6 minutes per game in February, perhaps this move is designed to ...

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