K22 wrote:

joec32033 wrote:All well and good. Donnie should tell them to take a flying leap. Publically. Good luck getting value.

Like this?

no like this

TMS wrote:

Finestrg wrote:Best possible scenario for us: DEN gets too greedy with their demands, we're forced to walk away from the deal, Melo understands and doesn't get too upset (STAT might have to work some magic here to convey the message) and then he agrees to sign with us in the offseason where we'd only have to let Chandler walk to make the room. We then retain the rest of the core (Gallo, Fields, Felton etc..). How plausible do you guys this this scenario is, honestly?

LMAO!

Finestrg wrote:

nixluva wrote:Melo will probably make it crystal clear that he doesn't want the Nets. I mean after they make the deal what is he gonna be playing with? If i'm Melo, no way they send me to the Nets, when I can play with my boy STAT in NYC! Why, so I can lose with "NoBounds" Lopez and who knows what's left? You might as well have Prokhorov take you to Siberia.

I agree..I wonder why he just doesn't come out and say what's really on his mind already..Doesn't wanna look like the bad guy? Respect for the Nets & Nuggets?? I guess so, but come on already--my man really has sent a ton of mixed messages lately..Dude should come out and make his intentions known by now in an effort to get this thing done..And make it easier on us in the process (he's already on record as saying he doesn't want to go to a team that has to give up everything in order to get him)..I guess it's a rep thing and he doesn't wanna come out looking like a complete D-Bag a-la LeBum..He doesn't have to even go public with it --- if he really wants NY, go to DEN management and lay the law down behind the scenes..Then get word to Amar'e and let him know what the score is and tell him to keep it quiet for the time being other than relaying the message to Donnie and co. of course. Tampering?? Perhaps. You know what though? Who cares, honestly..Amar'e & Melo aren't allowed to talk to one another??? Good luck trying to enforce that...It's behind the scenes conversation like this that got the Miami Heat built and you know what? Whatever man..Good for them..It would certainly put an end to all this ridiculous haggling & posturing on DEN's part. The Knicks are looking to make a deal in good faith here. It's DEN that unwilling to do so apparently and it's getting old..

A good part of me would now love to see DEN screw this up and get burned in the end where he signs with us in the offseason and they get NADA!!

It's coming down to crunch time..I think it's time for Melo to start using his leverage a little more..

IMO the message he's sending is "I wanna be a Knick, but I also want to sign that extension this year, so I'm gonna do my part & refuse to sign any extensions with any other team but come on Knicks, you gotta do your part & get this deal done."

Childs2Dudley wrote:At the end of the day Carmelo Anthony is going to accept a trade to anyone who will give him that extension. Whether that be New Jersey or New York or staying in Denver, he will sign that extension. He wants the money more than anything else.

If he wanted New York he could have said it already. He didn't demand it to his team, which means he isn't as serious about that as he is about his $65 million extension.

If Denver wants to ask for the sun and the moon in negotiations then they can go ahead and make a trade with the Nets, enjoy their compensation and Carmelo can enjoy rotting in the swamps of New Jersey with Brook Lopez for a few years before rotting away in Brooklyn for the rest of his career. That's the way he wants it, after all. If he wanted it any other way he would have already said it.

i disagree. i think he knows the kroenkes do not want to send him to his team of choice, so he's being quiet about the knicks stuff.

proof is in the pudding, obviously, if he signs somewhere else, then he wasn't serious.

but it's not like he can just say "trade me to the knicks" and the nuggets will be like, "oh, okay! the knicks! sure!" this is a delicate situation - the nuggets don't have a ton of leverage in some ways, but in some ways they hold all the cards.

if they're intent on waiting this out to get a steal of a deal, melo can walk... but they certainly don't have to trade him.

it's a game of chicken, just like it was back in november. we'll see who blinks first. mercifully only a week to go - though i bet this time a week from now, we still don't know where he'll be going.

my personal opinion is that this goes right up to the last minute and denver doesn't trade him.

They also want to get paid

NY will earn Melo more off the court then on

Melo's Jersey even with all the hype surrounding him is not top 5 selling Jersey

Last year he wasn't top 10 Allen Iverson sold more Jerseys

Point is if Melo needs an extra 3 million a year from Denver or The Swap then he losses
money in endorsements and his People Know that

ALL THESE RUMORS ARE PLOYS to get Knicks to give up more so that Melo can sign extension
and get endorsements..... His cake to eat.

I want Melo ASAP but not at the cost of guttting team

franco12 wrote:

martin wrote:hahahahaha, Melo would def love NJ. 2 or more years in a dead stadium follow by 5 years of 40+ wins. Awesome.

If he does get traded to the Nets, and doesn't extend, I bet there are more Knick fans showing up for the games than Net fans!

Papabear Says

Melo will sign the extention. I heard it from his own mouth on espn that he never said that he wanted to go to the Knicks. We are done.