I mean Monroe really can’t do anything but deny the deal at this point. He can’t have a deal with the Knicks in place, and the Pistons will have the right to match any deal offered to him in the first place.
We reported on Saturday, that Monroe to the Knicks was as good as done via the New York Daily News.
Monroe says he hasn’t agreed to anything with the Knicks, let alone even begun to discuss his free agency.
“It’s a shame that people just write stuff that’s not factual at all but we as players have to come in here and answer for it when we have absolutely nothing to do with it,” Monroe said of the report. “I guess he’s doing his job. That’s what you guys do. You write it’s a done deal then they must have another guy named Greg Monroe somewhere around there I don’t know about because I haven’t agreed to anything.”
The report cites an unnamed league executive who is quoted as saying it’s “about as close to a done deal as you can get.” […] It also coincides with the Pistons’ regular-season finale coming Wednesday at New York where Monroe is certain to face a barrage of questions about his future – the same questions he received from the New York media when the Knicks visited the Palace earlier this season.
“I’ve played in New York many times before and I don’t see how this time will be any different,” Monroe said. “They’re going to ask me the same kind of questions that you guys are saying and I’m going to tell them the same exact thing. I don’t know where he got it from. I would tell you guys to ask him.” […] “We’re going to try to keep Greg,” Pistons president-coach Stan Van Gundy said. “There’s no question about that. Obviously Greg has a lot to say with that so we’ll just see where it goes.”
If Monroe does end up with the Knicks, do we get to scream its a shame that you lied and said you weren’t thinking about free agency — when the subject has been on your mind for two-years now?