The Knicks Keep Spending

After deciding not to match the Spurs’ offer sheet for Jackie Butler, the Knicks’ have gone after Wizards’ bigman Jared Jeffries with a huge mid-level offer of five years for $30 million. While it’s common for bigmen (Jeffries is 6′11″) to be overpaid, Jeffries has been very average offensively in his four seasons in the NBA, averaging only 6.4 points and 4.9 rebounds last season. Jeffries can run the floor a little and is a fairly stout defender however.  Isiah Thomas might be envisioning a Boris Diaw-type role for Jeffries in the new uptempo offense he plans to run in New York although the difference here is Jeffries has already shown what his ceiling is and it’s lower than Diaw’s. If the Wizards decide not to match the Knicks’ offer (which is up in the air at this point), Jeffries will join Jerome James on the list of bad Knicks free agent signings.