“I definitely don’t know nothing about it,” Ibaka told NBCSports.com confidently, in English through his usually thick accent. “I’m a player like him, so we just go play. That’s the kind of question you need to ask the (general) manager.” Ibaka also said that he enjoyed playing with Martin and that he felt Martin was good for the team, ““He’s a good guy,” Ibaka said. “He was a good fit for us.”
- Marc Berman of the New York Post reports that the Knicks came very close to signing Chris “Birdman” Andersen in January. The Knicks, at the time, were concerned with Rasheed Wallace’s foot injury and contacted Anderson’s agent about possibly signing him. Birdman had grown close to Knicks’ players J.R. Smith and Carmelo Anthony while they played together in Denver. The Knicks, however, never made Andersen an offer. “There were a number of teams who contacted us, but I was ready to write off the season in January,’’ Andersen told The Post. Andersen, of course, has become an integral player for the Heat and could be in line for a huge pay-day this summer.
