Knicks · Knicks have reached out to Boston and Clippers about Melo (page 9)

NardDogNation wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:If their is no other team willing to take ob Melo why would the CLips give the Knicks any picks? Also, their picks are locked up until 2021 when they know they will need to rebuild by then.

If we can't get picks for Melo, should we just hold onto him? I'm warming to that idea if the market is what it allegedly is. If so, hopefully Melo excerises his NTC and we're still able to tank the rest of the season.

If we can't get picks for Melo, then we keep him and trade other starters for assets/picks (i.e., Rose and Lee). That might just make Melo waive the NTC. If not, it will at least improve our lottery position thru better losing. It sucks to lose, but we're doing it anyway, so why not make the most of it.

knicks1248 wrote:Phil needs to stay on track.and if something comes up to make the team better, you pull the trigger.

He needs to sit down with rose and melo and explain to them the art of winning, instead of throwing your hands up and giving up..

I don't often agree with 1248, but this is accurate. Good take on what Jax needs to do now. Although, I'd be looking to trade Rose/Lee/Melo, not just Melo.

NardDogNation wrote:

Chandler wrote:

Moonangie wrote:

Nalod wrote:Can't believe a thing until the deadline has come and gone.
A trade is a long shot.

Agreed. Melo not likely to e traded during the season.

I disagree. this is a prime year to move Melo to the cavs. they need to improve if they're going to seriously challenge GS, especially since they added KD. Lebron knows this and that's why he's going public

We'd have to strengthen their backcourt bench in the process. If we do, I'd see them making the deal with Love. The question now is what veteran PG is available that can play D and hit the open 3?

I could imagine Jennings being included and Baker becoming backup pg

Chandler wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:I said this in another thread yesterday but you have to keep in mind what teams would have to take on if they trade for Melo which should give you an idea of why you shouldn't expect a big return for him.

He's about to hit 33 yrs old.
He's an offense only player (pretty much)
He comes with two more years and $54 million left and that's not including the trade kicker.
Any team that does take him is in win now mode and adding a player like Melo will definitely come with an adjustment period for the rest of the team
The only teams on his list (that we know of anyway) are teams that don't have the type of assets we would like in return of young players and draft picks (Clev, Clips)

We also need to remember that one of the biggest things we'd get in return from trading Melo is getting rid of those two years and $54 million which we could use and add to that the money we get from Rose and Jennings coming off the books. I understand that we all want as many assets that we can get from trading a player the caliber of Carmelo Anthony but i just don't see a trade with the limited teams he'll accept a trade to that will get us what we would like. I'm not saying we won't get anything but bad contracts in return for Melo cause if Phil can show patience with trading him i would think a team would eventually step up and give us at least a 1st round pick for him and probably more but he would need to hold out as long as possible to do that.

I think you have to ask yourself if we're better off with or without Melo for the next 2 and a half years?
Are we better off going with a complete rebuild cause if we are then Melo has to go for that to happen?
Are you ready for at least 3 years of being an average to bad team which is at least the amount of years it will take to get the team respectful enough to start competing every night?

The best thing that could happen for us with this is Melo giving Phil more teams that he would accept a trade to. If he could put Boston, Washington and any other teams that have young players and draft picks to trade that would be big for us. If he doesn't add teams to his wish list then the only other thing that could happen that would help us to get a good return for him is if we can get a 3rd team in any deal with Clev or the Clips.

My biggest point in this is it's not all that bad if we don't get the kind of return we all would like for him cause just getting rid of the last two years on his contract helps us in a true rebuild.

we won't get a haul IMO. And it's looking more and more like it will need to be a multi-team deal, if any reports are partially true (e.g., Celts don't want Melo). The two most likely landing spots would be Clips and Cavs. Clips won't part with big 3 and even if they wanted to, I suspect Melo would be reluctant to go -- how would that affect their odds of a championship. Perhaps something can be worked out with Blake and other teams but would be complicated. Cavs parting with Love has some logic to it, but still would seems like a multi team deal. Love to Celts, picks and players to NY, Melo (and Championship) to Cavs. Of all the landing spots this is the most logical to me in terms of fit. It could be the thing to put Cavs over GS. Lebron needs rest and Melo can spell Lebron in those moments being the guy. When Lebron and Melo play together it could be devastating because Lebron would be smart with the ball. This to me is the one that makes the most sense. We could even throw in Jennings if they need another pg, and if we can't expect much from haul for Melo, Celts might send assets to both NYC and Clevland in some manner to balance things out for Love.

Yeah i agree and have been saying the best case for us in trading Melo is if the Celtics are involved whether it be just them and us or they're the 3rd team involved.

HofstraBBall wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:I said this in another thread yesterday but you have to keep in mind what teams would have to take on if they trade for Melo which should give you an idea of why you shouldn't expect a big return for him.

He's about to hit 33 yrs old.
He's an offense only player (pretty much)
He comes with two more years and $54 million left and that's not including the trade kicker.
Any team that does take him is in win now mode and adding a player like Melo will definitely come with an adjustment period for the rest of the team
The only teams on his list (that we know of anyway) are teams that don't have the type of assets we would like in return of young players and draft picks (Clev, Clips)

We also need to remember that one of the biggest things we'd get in return from trading Melo is getting rid of those two years and $54 million which we could use and add to that the money we get from Rose and Jennings coming off the books. I understand that we all want as many assets that we can get from trading a player the caliber of Carmelo Anthony but i just don't see a trade with the limited teams he'll accept a trade to that will get us what we would like. I'm not saying we won't get anything but bad contracts in return for Melo cause if Phil can show patience with trading him i would think a team would eventually step up and give us at least a 1st round pick for him and probably more but he would need to hold out as long as possible to do that.

I think you have to ask yourself if we're better off with or without Melo for the next 2 and a half years?
Are we better off going with a complete rebuild cause if we are then Melo has to go for that to happen?
Are you ready for at least 3 years of being an average to bad team which is at least the amount of years it will take to get the team respectful enough to start competing every night?

The best thing that could happen for us with this is Melo giving Phil more teams that he would accept a trade to. If he could put Boston, Washington and any other teams that have young players and draft picks to trade that would be big for us. If he doesn't add teams to his wish list then the only other thing that could happen that would help us to get a good return for him is if we can get a 3rd team in any deal with Clev or the Clips.

My biggest point in this is it's not all that bad if we don't get the kind of return we all would like for him cause just getting rid of the last two years on his contract helps us in a true rebuild.

So your saying the biggest reason we get rid of Melo, now, is to clear cap space? What happened to rebuilding? Getting draft picks? Making team better? Why not just waive him then? Phil would be happy. So we clear up 25M or so a year. Now what? We get two more guys like Noah and Lee for 25M. Then we bitch about them for the next few years? Seems to be like Phil's ego is so big he needs to reboot every time his cleansing does not work, because he cant face any bad decisions on his part. This will be his third time around for a reset. He has 2 more years, so how many more does he need? And pleas don't say, "yeah we got KP, WIlly and Kuz though". That was Gaines. And they have shown to be good but very inconsistent and have a long way to go before we crown them All Stars, starters or solid NBA players. And if we were going to tank three years in a row, why did we need Phil? Just higher really good international and college scouts.

Do you have reading issues?? I never said that i'd be happy in not getting anything in return for Melo and that our best outcome would be just getting rid of his contract but that is one of the reasons why we need him gone for a rebuild. Of course i want draft picks and young players in return for him but that will be very hard to do so Phil needs to hold out as long as possible with him to get the best return possible and not just trade him to the first taker and whatever they're offering.

HofstraBBall wrote:

nixluva wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:I said this in another thread yesterday but you have to keep in mind what teams would have to take on if they trade for Melo which should give you an idea of why you shouldn't expect a big return for him.

He's about to hit 33 yrs old.
He's an offense only player (pretty much)
He comes with two more years and $54 million left and that's not including the trade kicker.
Any team that does take him is in win now mode and adding a player like Melo will definitely come with an adjustment period for the rest of the team
The only teams on his list (that we know of anyway) are teams that don't have the type of assets we would like in return of young players and draft picks (Clev, Clips)

We also need to remember that one of the biggest things we'd get in return from trading Melo is getting rid of those two years and $54 million which we could use and add to that the money we get from Rose and Jennings coming off the books. I understand that we all want as many assets that we can get from trading a player the caliber of Carmelo Anthony but i just don't see a trade with the limited teams he'll accept a trade to that will get us what we would like. I'm not saying we won't get anything but bad contracts in return for Melo cause if Phil can show patience with trading him i would think a team would eventually step up and give us at least a 1st round pick for him and probably more but he would need to hold out as long as possible to do that.

I think you have to ask yourself if we're better off with or without Melo for the next 2 and a half years?
Are we better off going with a complete rebuild cause if we are then Melo has to go for that to happen?
Are you ready for at least 3 years of being an average to bad team which is at least the amount of years it will take to get the team respectful enough to start competing every night?

The best thing that could happen for us with this is Melo giving Phil more teams that he would accept a trade to. If he could put Boston, Washington and any other teams that have young players and draft picks to trade that would be big for us. If he doesn't add teams to his wish list then the only other thing that could happen that would help us to get a good return for him is if we can get a 3rd team in any deal with Clev or the Clips.

My biggest point in this is it's not all that bad if we don't get the kind of return we all would like for him cause just getting rid of the last two years on his contract helps us in a true rebuild.

So your saying the biggest reason we get rid of Melo, now, is to clear cap space? What happened to rebuilding? Getting draft picks? Making team better? Why not just waive him then? Phil would be happy. So we clear up 25M or so a year. Now what? We get two more guys like Noah and Lee for 25M. Then we bitch about them for the next few years? Seems to be like Phil's ego is so big he needs to reboot every time his cleansing does not work, because he cant face any bad decisions on his part. This will be his third time around for a reset. He has 2 more years, so how many more does he need? And pleas don't say, "yeah we got KP, WIlly and Kuz though". That was Gaines. And they have shown to be good but very inconsistent and have a long way to go before we crown them All Stars, starters or solid NBA players. And if we were going to tank three years in a row, why did we need Phil? Just higher really good international and college scouts.

Phil was doing two things at once. Giving it a go with Melo and some vets while also continuing to bring in youth and retain our picks and cap flexibility!!! People tend to keep forgetting these facts. Phil has maintained a degree of flexibility which other Knicks GM's failed to do. Who else did what Phil has in terms of keeping his options open???

Fair enough, so why did we need Phil for? Any GM could have cleared cap space. Not that hard to get rid of Tyson, Shump, JR, and now Anthony and get nothing in return. Nothing. Dont you have an issue with that? No issue with signing Noah for 17M? How is that helping our cap space? No issue with signing Rose for 22M or so? Instead of a couple of role players that could help KP and Melo better?

The biggest reason why Dolan brought Phil in was for something he and a lot of people thought he'd be able to do but never was able to which was attract the big names free agents. A lot of people thought that just by having Phil running the team and with how highly everyone thought of Phil at the time which was a basketball genius or god that the super star player would be jumping at the chance to play for the Knicks, well that never happened and now it's pretty much the exact opposite. You can't hate on Dolan for trying though and a lot of us and NBA people thought the same thin g would happen.

You say not that hard to get rid of Tyson, JR and Shump which is pretty funny because EVERYONE was saying at the time we still had those players that there's no way we'd be able to trade them and no team would want them or trade anything for them and after they were traded those same people that were saying we couldn't trade them were bytching and crying that Phil didn't get enough for them. Hahahaha

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Fam you interpret this as the Knicks are begging? I see a coach/GM that's deflecting. Of course he would love Melo in the team. Truth is they don't have enough to get him without another team

Chandler wrote:

NardDogNation wrote:

Chandler wrote:

Moonangie wrote:

Nalod wrote:Can't believe a thing until the deadline has come and gone.
A trade is a long shot.

Agreed. Melo not likely to e traded during the season.

I disagree. this is a prime year to move Melo to the cavs. they need to improve if they're going to seriously challenge GS, especially since they added KD. Lebron knows this and that's why he's going public

We'd have to strengthen their backcourt bench in the process. If we do, I'd see them making the deal with Love. The question now is what veteran PG is available that can play D and hit the open 3?

I could imagine Jennings being included and Baker becoming backup pg

Jennings makes too much to trade him with Melo and Melo's trade kicker. Therein lies the problem because Cleveland doesn't have the salaries to match anything in addition to Melo without moving a key player from their rotation...unless the player paired with Melo makes close to the minimum.

knicks1248 wrote:

NardDogNation wrote:

Chandler wrote:

Moonangie wrote:

Nalod wrote:Can't believe a thing until the deadline has come and gone.
A trade is a long shot.

Agreed. Melo not likely to e traded during the season.

I disagree. this is a prime year to move Melo to the cavs. they need to improve if they're going to seriously challenge GS, especially since they added KD. Lebron knows this and that's why he's going public

We'd have to strengthen their backcourt bench in the process. If we do, I'd see them making the deal with Love. The question now is what veteran PG is available that can play D and hit the open 3?

The cavs are not having trouble scoring, How does melo even fit into their offense. They will be in cap hell with, labron 30 mill, love 20 mill, melo 24 mill, Irving 18 mill, triston 20 mill..and a bunch of washed up role players..
Who wants 5 guys on roster taking over a 100 mill of the cap, and outside of labron, non if the rest are durable players.

I'm not sending Melo to CLE unless Kevin Love is included and re-routable to another team for picks. And if that's the case, Melo's salary supplants Love's, which makes your concern about their payroll moot.

And as much as the Cavs might not have trouble scoring in the regular season, the playoffs are a much different ball game especially with the Warriors waiting for them at the end of the tunnel. Also, Melo is more defensively versatile since Melo can guard some SFs. Love can't do that, which is a major concern because the Warriors are so perimeter heavy with Durant now. To that end, I think Melo is a better fit for this team and their current ambitions than Kevin Love.

Moonangie wrote:

NardDogNation wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:If their is no other team willing to take ob Melo why would the CLips give the Knicks any picks? Also, their picks are locked up until 2021 when they know they will need to rebuild by then.

If we can't get picks for Melo, should we just hold onto him? I'm warming to that idea if the market is what it allegedly is. If so, hopefully Melo excerises his NTC and we're still able to tank the rest of the season.

If we can't get picks for Melo, then we keep him and trade other starters for assets/picks (i.e., Rose and Lee). That might just make Melo waive the NTC. If not, it will at least improve our lottery position thru better losing. It sucks to lose, but we're doing it anyway, so why not make the most of it.

This, I agree with. And I definitely see a team like the Pelicans being willing to give up their current pick for the opportunity to chase the 8th seed in the West. I'd be willing to offload Courtney Lee, Lance Thomas and Brandon Jennnings for Tyreke Evans' expirer and one of their terrible contracts if it meant getting back that pick.

newyorker4ever wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

nixluva wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:I said this in another thread yesterday but you have to keep in mind what teams would have to take on if they trade for Melo which should give you an idea of why you shouldn't expect a big return for him.

He's about to hit 33 yrs old.
He's an offense only player (pretty much)
He comes with two more years and $54 million left and that's not including the trade kicker.
Any team that does take him is in win now mode and adding a player like Melo will definitely come with an adjustment period for the rest of the team
The only teams on his list (that we know of anyway) are teams that don't have the type of assets we would like in return of young players and draft picks (Clev, Clips)

We also need to remember that one of the biggest things we'd get in return from trading Melo is getting rid of those two years and $54 million which we could use and add to that the money we get from Rose and Jennings coming off the books. I understand that we all want as many assets that we can get from trading a player the caliber of Carmelo Anthony but i just don't see a trade with the limited teams he'll accept a trade to that will get us what we would like. I'm not saying we won't get anything but bad contracts in return for Melo cause if Phil can show patience with trading him i would think a team would eventually step up and give us at least a 1st round pick for him and probably more but he would need to hold out as long as possible to do that.

I think you have to ask yourself if we're better off with or without Melo for the next 2 and a half years?
Are we better off going with a complete rebuild cause if we are then Melo has to go for that to happen?
Are you ready for at least 3 years of being an average to bad team which is at least the amount of years it will take to get the team respectful enough to start competing every night?

The best thing that could happen for us with this is Melo giving Phil more teams that he would accept a trade to. If he could put Boston, Washington and any other teams that have young players and draft picks to trade that would be big for us. If he doesn't add teams to his wish list then the only other thing that could happen that would help us to get a good return for him is if we can get a 3rd team in any deal with Clev or the Clips.

My biggest point in this is it's not all that bad if we don't get the kind of return we all would like for him cause just getting rid of the last two years on his contract helps us in a true rebuild.

So your saying the biggest reason we get rid of Melo, now, is to clear cap space? What happened to rebuilding? Getting draft picks? Making team better? Why not just waive him then? Phil would be happy. So we clear up 25M or so a year. Now what? We get two more guys like Noah and Lee for 25M. Then we bitch about them for the next few years? Seems to be like Phil's ego is so big he needs to reboot every time his cleansing does not work, because he cant face any bad decisions on his part. This will be his third time around for a reset. He has 2 more years, so how many more does he need? And pleas don't say, "yeah we got KP, WIlly and Kuz though". That was Gaines. And they have shown to be good but very inconsistent and have a long way to go before we crown them All Stars, starters or solid NBA players. And if we were going to tank three years in a row, why did we need Phil? Just higher really good international and college scouts.

Phil was doing two things at once. Giving it a go with Melo and some vets while also continuing to bring in youth and retain our picks and cap flexibility!!! People tend to keep forgetting these facts. Phil has maintained a degree of flexibility which other Knicks GM's failed to do. Who else did what Phil has in terms of keeping his options open???

Fair enough, so why did we need Phil for? Any GM could have cleared cap space. Not that hard to get rid of Tyson, Shump, JR, and now Anthony and get nothing in return. Nothing. Dont you have an issue with that? No issue with signing Noah for 17M? How is that helping our cap space? No issue with signing Rose for 22M or so? Instead of a couple of role players that could help KP and Melo better?

The biggest reason why Dolan brought Phil in was for something he and a lot of people thought he'd be able to do but never was able to which was attract the big names free agents. A lot of people thought that just by having Phil running the team and with how highly everyone thought of Phil at the time which was a basketball genius or god that the super star player would be jumping at the chance to play for the Knicks, well that never happened and now it's pretty much the exact opposite. You can't hate on Dolan for trying though and a lot of us and NBA people thought the same thin g would happen.

You say not that hard to get rid of Tyson, JR and Shump which is pretty funny because EVERYONE was saying at the time we still had those players that there's no way we'd be able to trade them and no team would want them or trade anything for them and after they were traded those same people that were saying we couldn't trade them were bytching and crying that Phil didn't get enough for them. Hahahaha

That's patently false. There was a huge contingent of the board including myself, Gustavballer, Yellowboy and VCoug that felt Tyson could've been moved for a better return that would include at least a first round pick. After all, guys like Omer Asik required a first round pick to acquire so a guy like Tyson could've easily fetched that. Personally, I think the Thunder would've given up their 21st and 29th picks in the 2014 draft since they didn't want the picks and ended up burning them anyway. Had we followed through on something like that, we could've significantly jumpstarted our rebuild because both Rodney Hood and Nikola Jokic were available at 21 and 29 respectively. But we lack foresight as an organization and couldn't miss on Jose Calderon's assist-to-turnover ratio.

NardDogNation wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

nixluva wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:I said this in another thread yesterday but you have to keep in mind what teams would have to take on if they trade for Melo which should give you an idea of why you shouldn't expect a big return for him.

He's about to hit 33 yrs old.
He's an offense only player (pretty much)
He comes with two more years and $54 million left and that's not including the trade kicker.
Any team that does take him is in win now mode and adding a player like Melo will definitely come with an adjustment period for the rest of the team
The only teams on his list (that we know of anyway) are teams that don't have the type of assets we would like in return of young players and draft picks (Clev, Clips)

We also need to remember that one of the biggest things we'd get in return from trading Melo is getting rid of those two years and $54 million which we could use and add to that the money we get from Rose and Jennings coming off the books. I understand that we all want as many assets that we can get from trading a player the caliber of Carmelo Anthony but i just don't see a trade with the limited teams he'll accept a trade to that will get us what we would like. I'm not saying we won't get anything but bad contracts in return for Melo cause if Phil can show patience with trading him i would think a team would eventually step up and give us at least a 1st round pick for him and probably more but he would need to hold out as long as possible to do that.

I think you have to ask yourself if we're better off with or without Melo for the next 2 and a half years?
Are we better off going with a complete rebuild cause if we are then Melo has to go for that to happen?
Are you ready for at least 3 years of being an average to bad team which is at least the amount of years it will take to get the team respectful enough to start competing every night?

The best thing that could happen for us with this is Melo giving Phil more teams that he would accept a trade to. If he could put Boston, Washington and any other teams that have young players and draft picks to trade that would be big for us. If he doesn't add teams to his wish list then the only other thing that could happen that would help us to get a good return for him is if we can get a 3rd team in any deal with Clev or the Clips.

My biggest point in this is it's not all that bad if we don't get the kind of return we all would like for him cause just getting rid of the last two years on his contract helps us in a true rebuild.

So your saying the biggest reason we get rid of Melo, now, is to clear cap space? What happened to rebuilding? Getting draft picks? Making team better? Why not just waive him then? Phil would be happy. So we clear up 25M or so a year. Now what? We get two more guys like Noah and Lee for 25M. Then we bitch about them for the next few years? Seems to be like Phil's ego is so big he needs to reboot every time his cleansing does not work, because he cant face any bad decisions on his part. This will be his third time around for a reset. He has 2 more years, so how many more does he need? And pleas don't say, "yeah we got KP, WIlly and Kuz though". That was Gaines. And they have shown to be good but very inconsistent and have a long way to go before we crown them All Stars, starters or solid NBA players. And if we were going to tank three years in a row, why did we need Phil? Just higher really good international and college scouts.

Phil was doing two things at once. Giving it a go with Melo and some vets while also continuing to bring in youth and retain our picks and cap flexibility!!! People tend to keep forgetting these facts. Phil has maintained a degree of flexibility which other Knicks GM's failed to do. Who else did what Phil has in terms of keeping his options open???

Fair enough, so why did we need Phil for? Any GM could have cleared cap space. Not that hard to get rid of Tyson, Shump, JR, and now Anthony and get nothing in return. Nothing. Dont you have an issue with that? No issue with signing Noah for 17M? How is that helping our cap space? No issue with signing Rose for 22M or so? Instead of a couple of role players that could help KP and Melo better?

The biggest reason why Dolan brought Phil in was for something he and a lot of people thought he'd be able to do but never was able to which was attract the big names free agents. A lot of people thought that just by having Phil running the team and with how highly everyone thought of Phil at the time which was a basketball genius or god that the super star player would be jumping at the chance to play for the Knicks, well that never happened and now it's pretty much the exact opposite. You can't hate on Dolan for trying though and a lot of us and NBA people thought the same thin g would happen.

You say not that hard to get rid of Tyson, JR and Shump which is pretty funny because EVERYONE was saying at the time we still had those players that there's no way we'd be able to trade them and no team would want them or trade anything for them and after they were traded those same people that were saying we couldn't trade them were bytching and crying that Phil didn't get enough for them. Hahahaha

That's patently false. There was a huge contingent of the board including myself, Gustavballer, Yellowboy and VCoug that felt Tyson could've been moved for a better return that would include at least a first round pick. After all, guys like Omer Asik required a first round pick to acquire so a guy like Tyson could've easily fetched that. Personally, I think the Thunder would've given up their 21st and 29th picks in the 2014 draft since they didn't want the picks and ended up burning them anyway. Had we followed through on something like that, we could've significantly jumpstarted our rebuild because both Rodney Hood and Nikola Jokic were available at 21 and 29 respectively. But we lack foresight as an organization and couldn't miss on Jose Calderon's assist-to-turnover ratio.

We can't be sure who the Knicks might've drafted if they got picks for Tyson. It's an unknowable question and IMO not worth arguing over at this point. Let's see what happens if a deal is made and if they can get picks or not.

NardDogNation wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

nixluva wrote:

HofstraBBall wrote:

newyorker4ever wrote:I said this in another thread yesterday but you have to keep in mind what teams would have to take on if they trade for Melo which should give you an idea of why you shouldn't expect a big return for him.

He's about to hit 33 yrs old.
He's an offense only player (pretty much)
He comes with two more years and $54 million left and that's not including the trade kicker.
Any team that does take him is in win now mode and adding a player like Melo will definitely come with an adjustment period for the rest of the team
The only teams on his list (that we know of anyway) are teams that don't have the type of assets we would like in return of young players and draft picks (Clev, Clips)

We also need to remember that one of the biggest things we'd get in return from trading Melo is getting rid of those two years and $54 million which we could use and add to that the money we get from Rose and Jennings coming off the books. I understand that we all want as many assets that we can get from trading a player the caliber of Carmelo Anthony but i just don't see a trade with the limited teams he'll accept a trade to that will get us what we would like. I'm not saying we won't get anything but bad contracts in return for Melo cause if Phil can show patience with trading him i would think a team would eventually step up and give us at least a 1st round pick for him and probably more but he would need to hold out as long as possible to do that.

I think you have to ask yourself if we're better off with or without Melo for the next 2 and a half years?
Are we better off going with a complete rebuild cause if we are then Melo has to go for that to happen?
Are you ready for at least 3 years of being an average to bad team which is at least the amount of years it will take to get the team respectful enough to start competing every night?

The best thing that could happen for us with this is Melo giving Phil more teams that he would accept a trade to. If he could put Boston, Washington and any other teams that have young players and draft picks to trade that would be big for us. If he doesn't add teams to his wish list then the only other thing that could happen that would help us to get a good return for him is if we can get a 3rd team in any deal with Clev or the Clips.

My biggest point in this is it's not all that bad if we don't get the kind of return we all would like for him cause just getting rid of the last two years on his contract helps us in a true rebuild.

So your saying the biggest reason we get rid of Melo, now, is to clear cap space? What happened to rebuilding? Getting draft picks? Making team better? Why not just waive him then? Phil would be happy. So we clear up 25M or so a year. Now what? We get two more guys like Noah and Lee for 25M. Then we bitch about them for the next few years? Seems to be like Phil's ego is so big he needs to reboot every time his cleansing does not work, because he cant face any bad decisions on his part. This will be his third time around for a reset. He has 2 more years, so how many more does he need? And pleas don't say, "yeah we got KP, WIlly and Kuz though". That was Gaines. And they have shown to be good but very inconsistent and have a long way to go before we crown them All Stars, starters or solid NBA players. And if we were going to tank three years in a row, why did we need Phil? Just higher really good international and college scouts.

Phil was doing two things at once. Giving it a go with Melo and some vets while also continuing to bring in youth and retain our picks and cap flexibility!!! People tend to keep forgetting these facts. Phil has maintained a degree of flexibility which other Knicks GM's failed to do. Who else did what Phil has in terms of keeping his options open???

Fair enough, so why did we need Phil for? Any GM could have cleared cap space. Not that hard to get rid of Tyson, Shump, JR, and now Anthony and get nothing in return. Nothing. Dont you have an issue with that? No issue with signing Noah for 17M? How is that helping our cap space? No issue with signing Rose for 22M or so? Instead of a couple of role players that could help KP and Melo better?

The biggest reason why Dolan brought Phil in was for something he and a lot of people thought he'd be able to do but never was able to which was attract the big names free agents. A lot of people thought that just by having Phil running the team and with how highly everyone thought of Phil at the time which was a basketball genius or god that the super star player would be jumping at the chance to play for the Knicks, well that never happened and now it's pretty much the exact opposite. You can't hate on Dolan for trying though and a lot of us and NBA people thought the same thin g would happen.

You say not that hard to get rid of Tyson, JR and Shump which is pretty funny because EVERYONE was saying at the time we still had those players that there's no way we'd be able to trade them and no team would want them or trade anything for them and after they were traded those same people that were saying we couldn't trade them were bytching and crying that Phil didn't get enough for them. Hahahaha

That's patently false. There was a huge contingent of the board including myself, Gustavballer, Yellowboy and VCoug that felt Tyson could've been moved for a better return that would include at least a first round pick. After all, guys like Omer Asik required a first round pick to acquire so a guy like Tyson could've easily fetched that. Personally, I think the Thunder would've given up their 21st and 29th picks in the 2014 draft since they didn't want the picks and ended up burning them anyway. Had we followed through on something like that, we could've significantly jumpstarted our rebuild because both Rodney Hood and Nikola Jokic were available at 21 and 29 respectively. But we lack foresight as an organization and couldn't miss on Jose Calderon's assist-to-turnover ratio.

Hmmmmmm i guess i must of missed all of those posts then.

fitzfarm wrote:anyone see how rivers is tearing it up lately guy looks like a up and coming player he is only 24

Yeah he's averaging 18 ppg in January. And they have been winning despite the injuries. He is becoming a solid SG who would be a nice fit with KP because he's a good shooter and passer and competes defensively. In any clippers deal, we need him.

So you want a contending team to find another team with 27million worth of contracts, disrupt the contending teams chemistry, aaaand you want the 3rd team to give up draft picks for the likes of reddick, rivers, or some other back up,and somehow the knicks would come out on top of any of these trade senerios.

If phil was that clever we would already be a contender

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TripleThreat wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Phil is the one that wants him to go. Phil is the one that gave him the ntc and the trade kicker. But if Phil moves him for a package like it would be horrible. Reports are that Phil wants to get younger and build around KP. He would be adding a player four years older than Melo and another the exact same age. Also, the Clippers don't have picks to trade. There is no reason to do that deal for the Knicks.

You are operating under the belief that the Knicks have any trade leverage at all besides the actual trade deadline itself.

If you want to believe that, have at it. It's one way to see it ( Unlike many others on this site, I'm open to the idea that others have their view and its OK, even if it's different)

I don't see it that way.

This is not about if the Clippers have what the Knicks WANT in a trade. If Melo will only waive his NTC for the Clippers, and he's not going to a gutted team, then the best the Knicks can do is salvage "addition by subtraction" and hope the cap hits are short lived for them to get Melo off the roster.

When your list of teams reduces to 1, it changes everything. I don't think people see this here because Dolan insanely bid against himself when Melo wanted to come here from Denver, when the Knicks really had all the leverage ( it's NY or nowhere or lose Melo for nothing in FA for Denver)

The Knicks will not get Blake Griffin in a trade for Melo. It will not happen. Why? When the Clippers would have all the trade leverage? Now the Clippers might trade Griffin AFTER getting Melo to another team for other assets, but why would they give up the younger superstar player?

The Clippers need WING PLAYERS. Melo is a PF. Griffin is a PF. Griffin cannot play center, he has the athleticism ( he's off the charts) to defend the rim, but none of the instincts or timing or saavy to do it. You are also asking the Clippers to trade Doc Rivers son in this deal. Would they? ( People are irrational about their children, consider Dave Duncan, one of the best pitching coaches in baseball history, maybe of all time, went insane over how the Cardinals treated or did not treat his son in the organizational minors. You'll see superstar player have their "brothers" in the same team, just to keep that superstar happy. I think Bryce Harper or Stephen Strasburg has a brother in the same organization, you think it's because the kid is a massive talent like his brother?)

This is NOT about what the Knicks want, this is about what they can reasonably get given the circumstances. The circumstances IMHO dictate not much at all.

But if people want to see it different, that's up to them.

Yeah, I'm not buying that trade scenario at all. First, Rivers is terrible so the idea that he's a cornerstone of the deal is IMO insane. He adds zero to the Knicks. Crawford is fine but again not a fit here.

If the Clips and NY are in talks then a third team will have to be involved. And I agree, the Knicks can easily get short-changed in terms of talent but sometimes addition by subtraction is enough.

I understand that you guys don't want Crawford or Rivers but either one can fit just fine with KP especially Crawford. It's now coming out that none of Clev, Boston or the Clips are interested in Melo but the Clips are interested in C.Lee. Nobody wants Melo, at least the teams that we think he'd be interested in aren't interested in him. This of course could be just more writer talk that don't know what the hell they're talking about as usual.

I went out to dinner tonight with my wife and sons and my sons had an interesting take on a potential Clippers trade. Essentially they said that what the Knicks need IS three point shooters and that Rivers was playing decent ball lately. Not a great trade but potentially interesting for a Melo-less playoff run.

I'm not convinced CLE is out of the running. Gilbert has lost like $40M last year and while trying to respect Lebron's wishes might be very receptive to deals that both helped Lebron win AND lost some payroll commitment. Still a long shot.

I wouldn't rule out Miami either.

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Fam you interpret this as the Knicks are begging? I see a coach/GM that's deflecting. Of course he would love Melo in the team. Truth is they don't have enough to get him without another team

Yeah I read it the same way. Outside of their big 3 everyone is on the table but they don't got what the Knicks wants. The Celtics do..... the issue is does Ainge blink before the deadline.

wargames wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

smackeddog wrote:Looks like we really are on the phone begging the clips for scraps:

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Fam you interpret this as the Knicks are begging? I see a coach/GM that's deflecting. Of course he would love Melo in the team. Truth is they don't have enough to get him without another team

Yeah I read it the same way. Outside of their big 3 everyone is on the table but they don't got what the Knicks wants. The Celtics do..... the issue is does Ainge blink before the deadline.

I read it as confirming the reports- we phoned them, said we were willing to do a deal without their main 3 players, which is pretty much the deal that has been rumored- just waiting to see if Crawford can be vanquished onto a third team.