I'd love to get Milsap even though it would put Melo at small forward. Excellent two way player. Probably the best FA we have a realistic shot at. As long as his shoulder injury isn't too serious Phil Jackson should go all out to make this happen.

Harris is intriguing, but he's restricted and would require a major overpay to get him away from Orlando. He's a really hard worker, very promising scorer, but so far just a high usage stat stuffer on a bad team. He's been terrible on defense. Pretty much a younger, very poor man's version of Melo. We've got the real thing, so we should spend our money elsewhere.

I think Monroe would be a disaster. If he comes to the Knicks he's getting a max or near-max contract. I'll just quote an old Zach Lowe article on what kind of player we'd be getting:

"Monroe is a very good offensive player, but he’s a glaring liability on defense in a league getting smaller and quicker. He’s a turnstile trying to contain the pick-and-roll out on the floor — a mess of bad footwork, poor timing, lazy reaches, and bad choices. When Detroit has him hang back at the foul line, ball handlers can zip around him with an easy crossover or launch wide-open jumpers as Monroe, petrified at giving up a rim run, retreats a step farther than most bigs would dare — often with his arms down... When the Pistons asked Monroe to attack the ball higher on the floor, the mess was almost worse. Point guards can juke Monroe with laughable ease by faking toward a screener, watching Monroe lurch in that direction, and then crossing over the other way and into an unpatrolled lane. Monroe is often late in jumping out above a screen, meaning his momentum is going too hard the wrong way (toward half court) as the opposing point guard revs up to turn the corner. And when Detroit has asked him to hedge sideways, as in the still below, Monroe often arrives too late to cut off the ball handler."

Putting Monroe and Melo in the same front court (even with a strong defender like Milsap) would be a complete disaster. Signing Monroe is exactly the kind of Dolan-like move I hope Phil Jackson will prevent the Knicks from making.