martin wrote:There is a good chance that if Dwight wants to move from Orlando, he is traded to LA -And really, if Dwight wanted to move from Orlando to a team with cap space, do you think he would want to join Deron and caca or Amare and Melo. IMHO Amare, Melo, Howard would be a lock for EC for years.
Boston, Lakers, Knicks and Orlando will all have some shot at Howard to some degree. To wind up on the Nets would be a huge upset.
Don't think for a sec every NBA player in the league didn't see the "I'm Coming Home" promo and video of Melo's first introduction.
Yeah, that's just spectacle and no one is going to make a decision based on it, but it does cement and impression players have of things. This is the dynamic developing as I see it.
1.) Knicks had to scatch and claw their way to get one of the 7 or so big free agents last summer, but they got one, and things turned round.
2.) Then the lone really big free agent of the next class made it a priority to go to NY, and while it wasn't easy and NU has to deal with Denver, it got done.
3.) So what happens with the next class? The momentum has shifted, now there will be FA positioning themselves to be the final piece of the puzzle. Knicks just have to create the opportunity for it to be possible the the free agents will come to them.