Although most of this year's top Free Agents have decided not to go on a tour of all the prospective cities they might be playing in next year and instead have had the team's representative's come to them, David Lee is taking the opposite approach (which might make the Knicks and some of their fans a little uncomfortable).
Already, Lee has lined up visits with the Miami Heat, Chicago Bulls, Minnesota Timberwolves and the Knicks' now BIGGEST rivals, the New Jersey Nets.
As Chris Sheridan pointed out, both the Heat and the Bulls are probably going to wait and see how the bigger names play out before making a firm offer to Lee, but the New Jersey Nets, on the other hand, might be more willing to steal Lee away instead of waiting for Bosh, Stoudemire and Boozer to make up their minds.
Personally, I have to disagree with Sheridan here. Prokhorov just put up a billboard that read, "The Blueprint to Success." How is he going to sell David Lee receiving $12-13 million per year over five years as part of that blueprint. Those Knicks' fans who he wanted to convert into Nets' fans would just laugh in his face if he signed Lee before waiting to see what happened with the bigger names. David Lee, for all his talent, grit, and hustle, was able to put up solid numbers on some teams that were really brutal to watch. Signing Lee for that much money this early in Free Agency is the Blueprint to a First Round playoff exit, but not the NBA championship Prokhorov promised.
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