AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:As I alluded to in the other thread, if Melo feels their is a lockout looming then he has no incentive to opt out of his contract. This would explain why he is pushing so hard for the extension.

Makes no sense to opt out and sign a 5 year deal when half the season is over making the deal effectively 4.5 years. He can just make the prorated amount from Denver and sign a potential 5 year deal summer 2012.

not sure I follow this logic. If there is a lockout, no one gets paid, whether you have a current contract or if you just opted out of one and signed a new one. so it doesn't matter either way.

No one gets paid until the season resumes. When the season resumes your salary is prorated.

If Melo falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his back he is still entitled to his guaranteed prorated salary. See Jayson Williams. If breaks his back with no contract I dont see him signing a new deal.

As I said it is easy to say guaranteed cash doesnt matter when it's not your cash. Carmelo has to opt OUT of 18.5 million dollars to become a UFA which is easier said than done. He also has a wife and kid too think about.

if he was worried about something like that, wouldn't he just sign the $65M and be done with it?

I mean, he ONLY has $18.M + half of this year left on his current contract and could break his back over the next year and a half, what would LALA and kid do without the extra $65M?

AnubisADL wrote:

Panos wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:
No one gets paid until the season resumes. When the season resumes your salary is prorated.

If Melo falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his back he is still entitled to his guaranteed prorated salary. See Jayson Williams. If breaks his back with no contract I dont see him signing a new deal.

As I said it is easy to say guaranteed cash doesnt matter when it's not your cash. Carmelo has to opt OUT of 18.5 million dollars to become a UFA which is easier said than done. He also has a wife and kid too think about.

I can guarantee you Melo is thinking about Melo, not "his wife and kid." Melo has already earned enough money in his lifetime for his wife and kid. Regardless of whether he's thinking about the money, or about the trophy, he's not worried if he has enough money to take care of his kid.

LOL. So I guess that is why NBA players who make tens of millions who later go broke are an anomaly. I guess Iverson is pretending to be broke too.

Im just going to say Carmelo Anthony isn't Lebron James when it comes to off court revenue.

Are you argumentative just for the sake of it, or do you ever think first?
Iverson made max contracts throughout his career. He's not broke because he didn't make enough money. He's broke cause he spent it all or made bad investments. The sum of money that Melo has made should be enough for his family and their kids, and their grand kids. If its not, it doesn't matter how much more money he makes, cause he'll just throw that money away along with what he's already made.
And I can guarantee you when Iverson was wasting all his money, he wasn't "thinking about his wife and kids".

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:As I alluded to in the other thread, if Melo feels their is a lockout looming then he has no incentive to opt out of his contract. This would explain why he is pushing so hard for the extension.

Makes no sense to opt out and sign a 5 year deal when half the season is over making the deal effectively 4.5 years. He can just make the prorated amount from Denver and sign a potential 5 year deal summer 2012.

not sure I follow this logic. If there is a lockout, no one gets paid, whether you have a current contract or if you just opted out of one and signed a new one. so it doesn't matter either way.

No one gets paid until the season resumes. When the season resumes your salary is prorated.

If Melo falls down a flight of stairs and breaks his back he is still entitled to his guaranteed prorated salary. See Jayson Williams. If breaks his back with no contract I dont see him signing a new deal.

As I said it is easy to say guaranteed cash doesnt matter when it's not your cash. Carmelo has to opt OUT of 18.5 million dollars to become a UFA which is easier said than done. He also has a wife and kid too think about.

if he was worried about something like that, wouldn't he just sign the $65M and be done with it?

I mean, he ONLY has $18.M + half of this year left on his current contract and could break his back over the next year and a half, what would LALA and kid do without the extra $65M?

This is about risk and reward. He obviously doesn't want to be in Denver any longer. Going 8 days without a new contract and going possibly months without a contract are two very different things.

AnubisADL wrote:

Panos wrote:Are you argumentative just for the sake of it, or do you ever think first?
Iverson made max contracts throughout his career. He's not broke because he didn't make enough money. He's broke cause he spent it all or made bad investments. The sum of money that Melo has made should be enough for his family and their kids, and their grand kids. If its not, it doesn't matter how much more money he makes, cause he'll just throw that money away along with what he's already made.
And I can guarantee you when Iverson was wasting all his money, he wasn't "thinking about his wife and kids".

Do you ever think?

Do you know Carmelo's finances? Do you know his monthly expenses? I dont.

I know having a few million in guaranteed money versus zero is better than nothing. Also I'd like to add that Carmelo's tax bracket is 50%.

Hopefully Melo listened to Briggs... IGOI ftw

"I stopped following it. It's getting to the point where you're just like, move on already or don't," said Miami guard Dwyane Wade, a friend of Anthony's "I'm sure 'Melo is more tired of it than anybody. But it's just to the point, as a sports fan, you're just, 'All right, it's just enough.' I'm sure for everybody in Denver and everybody in New Jersey as well, and whatever other team comes into it, it's been a long saga. It's been a long soap opera. Hopefully it comes to an end and they can focus on basketball."

is D Wade really gonna call for this soap opera to end & for all parties to move on when he & his 2 buddies dragged on that same exact soap opera for the entire season last year & into the summer?

TMS wrote:

"I stopped following it. It's getting to the point where you're just like, move on already or don't," said Miami guard Dwyane Wade, a friend of Anthony's "I'm sure 'Melo is more tired of it than anybody. But it's just to the point, as a sports fan, you're just, 'All right, it's just enough.' I'm sure for everybody in Denver and everybody in New Jersey as well, and whatever other team comes into it, it's been a long saga. It's been a long soap opera. Hopefully it comes to an end and they can focus on basketball."

is D Wade really gonna call for this soap opera to end & for all parties to move on when he & his 2 buddies dragged on that same exact soap opera for the entire season last year & into the summer?

of course he wants it to end. he wants melo in NJ... he doesn't want melo in NY.