Harrington For Thomas Rumors Die Down

December 7th, 2009 by Andrew Wamboldt

According to Sam Smith, the trade rumors that would have Tyrus Thomas being sent to the New York Knicks in exchange for Al Harrington have died down.

Well, that was a fun week with the Tyrus Thomas/Al Harrington rumor. Just about everyone on both sides seems to have thrown cold water on it as more speculation than reality. It does make some theoretical sense as the Bulls need scoring badly as they rank just barely ahead of the Nets at the bottom of the league. Are we talking shootout at the UC Tuesday? And the Knicks, well, who knows what they need. Harrington pretty much has gone off on a scoring spree since the rumored appeared, averaging 26.5 points and 9.5 rebounds and telling Knicks reporters that being mentioned in trade with a guy with a broken arm is like being offered for “a bag of balls.”

This trade never seemed to make sense from the Knicks’ perspective. While Al Harrington isn’t in their plans past this season, it is hard to seeing Thomas being in their plans past this season as well, as it would seem they could sign better players, such as their own David Lee, with the remainder of their 2010 cap space after they sign their max free agent.

If you are only keeping either player for one year, Al Harrington is the much better option. He is averaging 20.1 points per a game, and he is doing it on an efficient 57.1 TS%.

The trade would obviously be incredible for the Bulls. They would improve their near league worst offense, by adding an efficient 20 points per game scorer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the Knicks are going to gift the Bulls Al Harrington, so the Bulls will need to find some other way to improve their pathetic offense.