While all the talk in New York all but has Jamal Crawford a Knick, Mike McGraw of the Chicago Herald Sun tries to put things into perspective by stating that once the Bulls' needs, New York's bloated contracts and NBA salary-cap rules are all factored in the deal which would see Crawford in MSG is a longshot.

From Crawford's soon to be Base Year status to the Knicks overpaid players to the Bulls concerns about the luxury tax, it all paints a vastly different picture to the one we've been hearing thus far.