It's worth exploring, at the very least
by drex783 on Aug 17, 2010 4:47 PM PDT
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PrintAccording to various rumors on ESPN and other sources, the Nuggets are looking to trade Carmelo Anthony. My question to everyone is what would you be willing to give up to get 'Melo? I want to hear some ideas floating around in those devious little heads of yours.
Personally, I think we'd have to include Donte Greene/Omri Casspi and Carl Landry at least in any deal. Probably a first round draft pick to go along with it. I wouldn't do it if it meant giving up Tyreke Evans or DeMarcus Cousins. I'm way to geeked up on those two right now to trade for anyone.
What do you think?
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Gotta look at the long term.
If he’s willing to sign an extension with the Kings, then throw the farm for him. But odds are he’s not. Therefore only give up what you wouldn’t expect to have here after next season anyways, knowing that you’re really just renting Anthony. The positive is getting Anthony for a year and having Evans and Cousins learning from him on the court. The drawback is that you spend the last bargaining chips needed to make the Kings better in the long run. And Petrie seems to be taking the long term approach, for which I applaud him.
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I dont really think he will get traded during the season, the nuggets want to win.
but if Dmc gets ROY, he would defiantly take a long look at Sacramento.
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by Mr. Know it all on Aug 18, 2010 8:29 PM PDT up reply actions
he nuggets see what toronto got for bosh. if they want more than a couple #1's they will trade him
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Wrong
and wrong.
If Melo wants to go, they will trade him, no question about it. You don’t risk losing a player next year and get nothing back when you can possibly get great picks and some solid players for the future in return.
DMC winning the ROY after Reke would probably make it less appealing, because he wants to be a star player, not a role player next to the two young stars.
A sign and trade would still be more than likely
players of that salary value almost always end up that way for slary cap rules, unrestricted FA or not.
But there is a risk.
So imitate the action of the tiger!.
Lend the eye a terrible aspect
- and teach them how to war!
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by lietothegirls on Aug 23, 2010 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Like T Darkstar above me said, it depends how risky the deal is.
If it is a sign and trade and Carmelo signs his extension then comes to us then I would at least consider it. If we are left vulnerable by the chance he could bolt after a year, I am not interested.
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It’d be worth taking a hard look at, although I’d rather have Hassan learning from Sammy than Andersen. Still, the Birdman can play.
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I would do that trade in a heartbeat
Only I’m sure they would want to dump Nene in any deal.
I love beating dead horses.
We still stay under cap and get a great SF (Only issue is it would take PT from Casspi, and another body for roster in a cheap SG. That and we get Carmelo..
They remove 14 million from their Salary (And they are 25 over) so helps them a lot, Gives them a great offensive weapon in Landry, and a nice little Sf that’s cheap for them.
Three things
1) I don’t wanna get rid of Dalembert due to the fact we brought him in for big man defense which we really haven’t had in a while and has been a huge hole here. IMO we need Dalembert and JT or Landry (I prefer JT because even though he’s not as good at offense, he’s miles better at other categories) here while Whiteside and Cousins are learning the ropes..at least Cousins that is..
2) I think it would be very helpful to have a SF here that could help teach Omri more about his position as Omri backs up CA. Even if we can’t extend CA for more then a year, He could really help push the public image of this team, and the want to win. This trade is basically Kmart and Donte for CA, which I would have done in a heartbeat last year. I like Landry a lot but I think we would be better off with a more well rounder player at PF.
3)This also pushes us with even more salary relief at the end of the year which is great for resigning players, as Dalembert, is expiring and Omri, Tyreke and JT are all on their team option at the end of the year. With all contracts and picking up team options on everyone It will only put us at $26,835,017 in salary with a great base starting 5 in Beno, Reke, Omri, JT and Cousins with backups of Garcia, Whiteside, and Dalembert possibly.
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C'mon, I think Nene..
..would have a ball in sac.
by avishai on Aug 18, 2010 9:20 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Trade Machine is blocked at my offfice
Go figure. What’s the trade?
by misterbrister on Aug 18, 2010 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions
The tweeted one is
Kings send: Landry, greene and Dalembert
Nuggets send: Melo and Chris Anderson
Mine is
Kings send Landry, Greene
Nuggets send Melo, Coby Carl
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Denver released Coby last I heard
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by lietothegirls on Aug 18, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, Aug 15th
his contract would have been guaranteed if that didn’t release him by that date.
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Easily we could take someone like Affalo then off their hands and say 1million instead
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Not sure why we have to take back anyone but Mello
Why would Denver want to lose Mello and Affalo?
The debate between who’s better Omri & Donte will continue until one or the other starts to dominate. But, I think I like this trade.
Mello for Omri & Landry.
Here’s why. Mello is going to play 36+ mpg. That doesn’t leave a lot of minutes for Omri, and that’s not going to make him happy, he’s just too competetive. As far as flexibility goes, Greene can play the PF & SF, and Omri is purely SF. I left out SG because neither can play that position well. Also, Mello & Donte are friends having both played a Cuse.
Adding Mello is going to take the Kings out of the Lottery, so even if we thru in a future 1st rounder it be a good deal for both teams. But, by including Omri, we might get away with only giving up some 2nd rounders. Plus, there’s no guarantee that we’ll be able to resign Landry after this season, so Mello for Omri and some 2nd rounders sounds pretty good to me.
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Only thing is I think Omri will be way better in the long run, and if we dont get that extension on Melo, we only have Donte Greene at the end of the year. Honestly I think while Donte is talented and great in sporadic games, the only issue I have with Omri now is his conditioning, which I think won’t be a problem this year. I just see Omri as a more consistent player then Donte especially when he gets that conditioning.
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Reason for Affalo is that it removes payroll from them since they are 24 million over the cap at this point. It’s just enough so we don’t go over, but clears out a lot of excess for them.
Honestly I think Mello could be had for Landry and Donte, and a futures 1 st rounder top 10 protected. Why give up on Omri so soon when Donte has proven nothing and you probably wont have Mello after this year. Would you rather have a guy who is consistently good (Omri) or consistently mediocre with spots of great play…Omri has had one less year then Donte and is quickly coming into his own. Honestly I think after this year Landry will not be here, and Donte would be an ok backup, but I would rather have someone more consistent, which is why my deal isn’t taking into consideration mello beign extended
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If I thought Mello won't be here, I wouldn't even consider the trade
so, I have to believe that having Donte available to backup Mello and be the stretch PF, is better than having Omri playing behind Mello and wanting more than 12 mpg.
If we trade Landry & Donte/Omri for Mello adding Affalo might get Denver under the Luxury Tax, so I can see where that would be important to them. So, good point.
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That and if we really wanted to we could trade Mello at the deadline for something better then what we could probably get for Landry at the deadline. This would free up minutes for casspi, get us a better FA, and we would have a lot of wiggle room for free agents next year dependant on who we got for Mello.
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Greene-Landry-Cisco and two firsts
if Melo agrees to an extension as well. That would be my first offer.
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I thought the plan was for Carmello to join CP3 & Amare in NY
He’s likely to exercise his ETO next summer, so whoever gets him in a trade will be in a bidding war next summer to keep him. and, if he’s like LeBron & Bosh, he’s likely to refuse the highest bidder in favor of going to a team like NY and forming next seasons Miami.
I wouldn’t give up anything to get him unless he signs a 5 year extention.
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4 years would be fine
But I agree. It sounds like he wants to go East, without an extension its a non-starter.
I’d give up any but Reke, Cousins and Omri, but only one of the other big men.
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by lietothegirls on Aug 18, 2010 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Interesting that you would include Omri
With Mello signed with a long extention (4/5 yrs), there is going to be very little PT for Omri, which won’t make him happy. And, Omri of all the young guys has the least flexiblity to play other positions. The only reason I can see for keeping him would because his trade value would be higher than say Donte & maybe JT.
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If Cousins wins ROY, he has to take a long look at Sactown
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by Mr. Know it all on Aug 18, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
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If 'Melo isn't signing the extension in Denver, he's not signing one here
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by Balky Needs on Aug 17, 2010 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'd take him without one & hope the team makes a strong enough run
Big risk I might not do until midway through the season if the team takes off out of the gate. It won’t happen anyway so it doesn’t matter.
I love beating dead horses.
I don't believe that we are a batter team next year with CA than Denver is with CA
So why would he sign an extension. Honestly, I believe we have to be a team that can make the playoffs on our own before we can sign someone of CA’s stature. He has to feel like he is the final piece we need to be a contender. Right now we “think” we have two of the necessary pieces, but we haven’t proved anything yet. And I don’t think we will next year. I believe we are two years away from having what is needed to attract this type of player.
"And I never said I don’t like KMart. I just don’t think the duo is good for the team. They are essentially two of the same player"
Sammyp831.
The only problem with that is that we’re about two years away from lacking the necessary cap space to sign that type of player.
Yeah
Funny how that works huh? By the time you have good players you can’t afford to get more.
"And I never said I don’t like KMart. I just don’t think the duo is good for the team. They are essentially two of the same player"
Sammyp831.
Denver < Sacramento.
But I do agree with you however.
Still, common folks lets not sell Sacramento short here!!
Im fuckin ready for some FOOTBALL!!!
By the trade deadline
Suppose the Kings are in the running, maybe having an better season than we expected and just need that one player to get them into the playoffs as a home team, than I might do it if the risk after the year won’t be losing money or having any solid young players going to Denver.
We would want to sign him to an extension, but I agree he most likely wouldn’t. But if the price was okay, and the team could still develop the year he left the team and still be competative, I would say he could fulfill getting the Kings into the playoffs, maybe the second round?
Of course, that is IF this team if making a playoff run that they are not the 6-8 seed.
How do you expect to get him from Denver without
losing money or solid young players?
"And I never said I don’t like KMart. I just don’t think the duo is good for the team. They are essentially two of the same player"
Sammyp831.
i didnt say anything about getting him
In fact, I am asking a question. If we got him (assuming we gave them what they wanted) would it be worth it to rent him the rest of the year at the expense of some players (landry, donte, etc.) If the team is exceeding expectations and is in the 4 or 5 seed spot? Or would you rather if we made the playoffs keep our young guys and stick with the plan we originally have of developing our young players?
by oakland9 on Aug 18, 2010 4:28 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Okay
When you said,
I might do it if the risk after the year won’t be losing money or having any solid young players going to Denver.
I assumed you meant that you would be willing to trade for him if we could do it without losing money or young players. I think losing one or both to get CA is a given. If all it did was move us up a spot or two and we lost him, I don’t think giving up a Casspi or similar player is worth it, and we’d probably also have to give up picks.
"And I never said I don’t like KMart. I just don’t think the duo is good for the team. They are essentially two of the same player"
Sammyp831.
by SavageBeast on Aug 18, 2010 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Agreed
I don’t think it would be worth it, but some people might. I would rather keep the young players we have and let them play with the two stars we already have. Carmelo wants to be the star somewhere still, and Sacramento is not applealing enough now that we have two potential back to back ROY’s.
If the Kings had a 50 win season out of nowhere and he could help us in a deep and unexpected playoff run…I might consider trading some players (Omri/Donte, Landry, etc..) But even at that, the team may be better off without him. More of just a question of opinions I guess is what I asked.
Melo isnt worth it
His identity is as a number one guy and I don’t think he is actually good enough to fill that role. If you haven’t read the piece on why Melo isn’t a max player over at ESPN then you should. An incredibly inefficient player who plays shitty defense. Yes, Melo is head and shoulders better than what we currently have at the 3, but as far as what it looks like PW wants out of his SF Melo doesn’t cut it either. And especially for that price.
What we need is an efficient 3 point shooter, who is a plus defender, and can drive when needed to.
No thank you.
Umm... I thought we were officially referring to Voison as the Chick Replacing Amick at the Paper? or CRAP, for short.
Good point about Mello excepting a role other than the main guy.
but I believe Evans made a comment about wishing the Kings had a vet who could carry some of the scoring load. So I don’t think adding a vet who ‘actually isn’t good enough to be the number one guy’ but who could be the number 1b guy would be bad.
As far as defense goes, Denver in general was a middle of the pack team, and won by outscoring their opponents with an attacking offense that lead the league in FTA’s. I don’t believe every player needs to be a great defender for the team to be a good defensive team. With low post defenders like Sammy, DMC & Whiteside and adding a defensive minded SG to play in the backcourt with Tyreke, I think we could live and prosper with Mello’s defense.
As far a Mello’s salary, we can’t make it to the playoffs without star players and we won’t be able to maintain a roster of rookie scale contracts forever. If Miami can exist with 3 Max contracts, I believe we won’t have a salary problem until Tyreke & Cousins play out their rookie contracts. So, a 4 year extention for Mello would expire when Cousins will be looking for his big payday. If we could win 1 or 2 Western Conference Championships by then, I doubt that the Maloof’s would be too concerned with paying Mello.
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Good points
I am mostly deterred by his inefficiency. But it would be interesting to see how his percentages would change if he had better shot selection, and its possible that would be easier to accomplish in Sacramento where we have a potentially deadly inside-outside game that will create a lot of space for shooters.
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by sac_faithful on Aug 18, 2010 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Only with on an extend-n-trade
and without giving up Reke or Boogie
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was wondering when this idea would be posted
the extension is key (as said above), but a trade would be the best way for the Kings to get a big name player and melo is a top 10 player in the NBA IMO. No big name free agent is coming here and this might be the best opportunity to get a player of melo’s caliber.
Still waiting for the Euler of basketball to play for the Kings
No way we are getting Carmelo, but....
Its been reported forever that Carmelo wants to go to the big lights of NY, not the cow pastures of Sacramento….
However, when I look at what NY has to offer back to Denver. I am not seeing much. Also, dont believe that NY can take on Carmelo’s max contract deal starting around $15 mil. So it would look like NY would have to get other teams involved to make this deal.
NY does have an interesting young PG in Toney Douglas that I think would be an good addition to the Kings roster backing up Udrih. Would a couple of second round picks interest Denver enough to make NY throw Douglas into the mix?
Douglas and Reke would make a interesting back court of the future.
The last year of Mello's contract is an ETO
If he really wants to go to NY, he’ll simply refuse to sign an extention, and he’ll make himself untradeable. Next season NY has only $42M in contracts, so they won’t need to trade anyone to pick up Mello as a UFA. But, if that’s the case, then Denver needs to do some kind of deal before the trade deadline, or else they could end up with nothing baring a sign and trade next July.
So, if Denver decided to trade Mello to NY this season, they’d have to take back almost anything their offered or just let Mello walk at the end of the season. NY could offer Curry & Gallinari plus draft pick, but it would have to include Curry. His is the only contract ($11M) that would quality the trade to meet the 125% salary matching requirement since Denver or NY would end up over the salary cap.
I don’t believe a third team helps that much especially since Douglass’ contract is only for $1M.
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NY could offer Curry & Gallinari plus draft pick, but it would have to include Curry.
Seriously what are the odds the Knicks will try and make this pitch this year? I would guess it’s somewhere between 90% and 112% chance.
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by wallywagon11 on Aug 18, 2010 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Curry is expiring and Gallinari has value
but if the Knicks know that Mello is going to sign with them as a FA next summer, they have no reason to offer anything unless they want to dump salary. I’m only saying that if Mello tells Denver he’s going to go to NY with or without a trade, the only way for Denver to do a trade this season, is if they take back Curry because they are over the cap and need to match salaries to within 125%. And, the only reason to do a trade this season is to get some value in return like Gallinari & draft picks.
Next July, even a sign & trade will be difficult because of the matching salaries problem. Curry’s contract will have expired and Denver would have to take back one or more of NY’s big contracts like Felton, Turiaf, and Gallinari just to keep NY under the cap so they can make the trade.
This is another LeBron type problem for Denver. They’re probably going to lose Mello, and they’re going to get little or nothing in return.
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The point that I was trying to get to was...
Would a couple of our second round picks be enticing enough to Denver to ensure that they ask for Douglas as part of the package that they get back from NY for Carmelo. I dont think that Denver is going to keep whatever players that they do get from NY. Can Denver move Curry’s expiring contract for a player that does interest them is the real question? maybe someone like Okafor in NO who is looking for salary relief.
Also, I dont think that Gillinari is the tough, hard nosed, in your face player that Denver seems to like on their roster. I think Chandler is more the type Denver will want to fill the vacant SF minutes.
I don't think there really is anyway the Knicks "know" he is coming next year and they would say yes yes yes to that move.
Because whatever he has said in the past he can just back out of at any time. If I were Donnie Walsh and I had a reliable source saying Carmelo would be willing to come to New York next year yet I also knew that Denver would say yes to this trade and that, as a condition of this trade, Carmelo would agree to sign a long term deal, it would take me about 0.5 seconds to say yes to it. Not worth waiting a year because you really don’t know what could change in that span (of course, Carmelo could also break his back and the Rooster can become a better scorer but I wouldn’t bet on those events and I don’t trust that Amare might not wreck his body or some other team becomes more enticing along the way like New Jersey).
Because talent? You want to add a guy like boozer because hes talented? I’m sorry i just don’t see that as a valid reason. -- fffindeed
by wallywagon11 on Aug 19, 2010 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd do Ziller's proposed trade in a Heartbeat
The inherent risk isn’t much with that trade other than that we lose out on Donté’s potential. Landry will be an Unrestricted Free Agent next year. It will be very possible someone will offer him a lot more than we would. Dalembert’s future in Sacramento is up to debate. If the Kings do attempt to re-sign him, it likely will be at a reduced cost and a lower role, depending on how fast DeMarcus comes along (and its obvious DMC is being groomed as the Kings Center of the Future).
Even if Melo did leave after his tour of duty in Sacramento, the trade would have ended up being essentially Donté for Chris Andersen. Andersen is an effective player, locked up on a nice contract for what he does. Donté could end up being amazing, or simply a good contributor.
But the Kings with Tyreke Evans driving ability and Carmelo Anthony’s offensive maelstrom could be dominant, especially if a guy like DeMarcus Cousins develops his potential. And a trade for Melo would definitely bring back fans to ARCO, and who knows if Melo decides “Hey this Sacramento place aint bad at all”.
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Denver might perfer to keep Andersen because they need size.
and the Kings could use a defensive SG, so as Widowwolf suggested above Affalo might be a good swap for Andersen.
I can see the point of taking a chance that we might only have Mello for 1/2 a season if he decides not to resign or sign an extention because we might also lose Landry and Dalembert anyways. But, giving up Donte for Andersen seems like a loss for the Kings while Affalo would be a fair deal and would at least fill a position of need. We’d still have DMC & JT who can play center and JT & Hassan at PF, but who would we have at SG?
All in all, I think we have a better chance at resigning Sammy and/or Carl than Mello. But, that could depend on how far Mello takes us into the playoffs this season. If we could get thru the 1st round than he just might resign. So, if we have a better than expected record at the deadline which would make it possible to make the playoffs with the addition of Mello, I’d take the gamble.
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Aykis I basically agree with you even though I voted no in the poll because this trade doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of happening
but every post here is making the assumption that there are no major changes to the CBA next season. Nobody knows what it’s going to look like whenever it’s ratified by both sides. At this point ’Reke has no idea what the scoring load is going to look like with DMC and a much improved frontcourt. Landry was a far more efficient scorer in Houston and with a training camp under his belt should mesh far better with the Kings offense than he did last season. If we want an inefficient scorer we could probably work out a trade with the dubs for Monta for far less coin.
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I second this!
Ball dominant, undersized combo guard who doesn’t play defense? No way, especially with the contract he has. Let him hamper Stephen Curry’s growth instead of Tyreke’s
Sure
Only if it involves an extension and Carmelo wants to play here.
If he doesn’t then I think the kings should then look at trading for Rudy F, a young/tall and very athletic sg that is underrated right now.
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by MarcusC on Aug 18, 2010 12:59 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Interesting...
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by andy sims on Aug 18, 2010 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I should have known something was up about that 18 year old Swedish girl who knew way too much about the Kings.
First hint: Who names their child Andiana Sims?
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Thanks to Lebron James
This is the new direction of the nba…Super Star teams nd small market teams with no chance. Sounds like MLB to me.
Im fuckin ready for some FOOTBALL!!!
Add destroying the NBA
to the list of mean things that LeBron devil did. What a bad guy!!
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Not even close to the MLB
and also absolutely nothing new about it
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by wallywagon11 on Aug 19, 2010 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
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Tampa, Minnesota, Texas, Cincinnati, Atlanta and San Diego.
All in first place, none exactly gigantic markets. I’ll go along with the notion that the AL East is heavily stacked for the usual suspects, but payroll isn’t as large a determining factor in baseball as it is in the NBA.
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Uhhh... what?
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Reply fail on my part.
Ability to glance up fail on your part.
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Wow, summer must be miserable.
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Carmelo is reportedly open to signing an extension with 2 teams not named the Knicks
the Rockets, and the Nets.
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"Morrison beats Casspi 1 on 1". - MarcusC
Assuming we give up Donte/Omri and Landry
We have to look at the positives of the team that would appeal to him. The thing that sticks out to me most about Melo’s game is his ability to shoot the ball, with or without a defender in his face. His style would match up with Tyreke’s unstoppable drive. We also have DMC who, if he plays like he did in those first three games of VSL, will be one hell of post presence who can also take his game outside to spread the floor. DMC is also an amazing passer who will only get better as time goes on. If Melo sticks around for a few years, that trio could rival even the Heat’s three headed monster.
Bottom line, I think the Kings have enough to offer him as far as this being a good place to play basketball for the next few years. But ultimately, it’s up to him to decide.
Thinking NJ has a better offer than NY
Newly acquired expiring contract of Troy Murphy plus a SF like Travis Outlaw and a 1st round pick will beat anything that NY can piece together.
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