Vmart wrote:At that kind of money no. It's not a good deal at all that ball busting cap killing deal leaves the team very few options. Besides if the Knicks continue to lose he would be a big reason why. His deal of 129/5 no thanks. If you are watching the playoffs you will see that the Heat are the only team winning easily the rest are all struggling and I hate to break it to you a lot of those teams don't have max player talent. The player who does have max player talent LeBron took less so he can have a team. These playoffs have been eye opening as to the direction the NBA is going. Atlanta, Memphis, Toronto, San Antonio, Portland these team are all devoid of Max player talent yet they are all playing well in the playoffs. Chicago has zero max players and same with Washington these are teams with good players at most positions.

So if you want to kill the cap with Melo go ahead but you just saw that without good team play and good players at most positions you won't get to far. We didn't even make the playoffs and Melo had a good year. Everybody else pretty much sucked. You want to win you must have talent.

The salary cap jumped by $5 million in anticipation of the new TV deal that the NBA is suppose to sign. Now, imagine how much it'll increase by when they will actually sign it during the 2015 offseason. Melo's contract probably won't be that big of a deal, if we can make it worthwhile and get more star power.

He wants wha his buddies have..A TiTle

We spend to much time debating over the financial part of things or what chicago and houston has to offer, rather than looking at what the knicks have to offer.

Fck melo if he doesn't want to sign, treat his ass just like CANO.

knicks1248 wrote:The guy in not interested in money, he's interested in winning a damn title. The dude is worth a 100 mill if he never plays another game in his life.

He wants wha his buddies have..A TiTle

We spend to much time debating over the financial part of things or what chicago and houston has to offer, rather than looking at what the knicks have to offer.

Fck melo if he doesn't want to sign, treat his ass just like CANO.

IS THAT WHY he forced his way here before the lockout, fleecing a team he was being traded to?

Fck melo if he doesn't want to sign, treat his ass just like CANO.

He is nothing like cano.. I like cano, he won a title in NY, he wanted more money. I say he was greedy, but he did win here, now he wanted to get paid...as you guys say, "get your money melo".. well cano is entitled to the same thing..

Bonn1997 wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:The dude is worth a 100 mill if he never plays another game in his life.

That sounds like Amare Part II.
Or is it Allan Houston Part III?

It's why I prefer we trade him. Unfortunately though, I don't run the Knicks and the league doesn't seem to be too big on my 4 team trades involving 25 players that result in us getting Kevin Love. If we can't get anything in return for Melo, I much rather keep him and let the cards fall where they may. If that becomes our situation and we had to bribe Melo into staying, I would but only under these conditions.

NardDogNation wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:The dude is worth a 100 mill if he never plays another game in his life.

That sounds like Amare Part II.
Or is it Allan Houston Part III?

It's why I prefer we trade him. Unfortunately though, I don't run the Knicks and the league doesn't seem to be too big on my 4 team trades involving 25 players that result in us getting Kevin Love. If we can't get anything in return for Melo, I much rather keep him and let the cards fall where they may. If that becomes our situation and we had to bribe Melo into staying, I would but only under these conditions.

but why tie yourself into cap hell with carmelo and after the season we had? what do you lose by trading him and starting over?

NYKBocker wrote:If you max out Melo then you will see more of the same from this year.

tkf wrote:

fishmike wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:If you max out Melo then you will see more of the same from this year.

whats that? 28 points and 8 boards?

along with no defense, no passing, no leadership and a rotten culture...

again..

no thanks..

TKF,
Does a mentorship of phil and Kerr with a buy in by Melo change your thinking at all that Melo, for a price less than max can be a good thing?

"taming of the shrew" part 3? Jordan, Kobe and perhaps Melo?
I would say at this age Melo would not be "Mt Rushmore" territory but we do know Melo is a very talented player who COULD be a great piece of a system.

Not ISO, not like Woodson used him. His stats would drop, but wins could go up?

tkf wrote:

fishmike wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:If you max out Melo then you will see more of the same from this year.

whats that? 28 points and 8 boards?

along with no defense, no passing, no leadership and a rotten culture...

again..

no thanks..

You dont even have opinions on Melo. You have tunnel vision hatred. How's Gallo?