Uptown wrote:Once Bosh signed for $118 mil, I knew there was no way Melo would sign for less....

Once melo became a free agent, I knew there was no way he would sign for less...

yellowboy90 wrote:If the Max was put on the table then you really can't take your cards back. However maybe the max was offered but without a no trade clause. The second option maybe a slightly less contract with a player option. The third maybe even less with a no trade clause and so on and so on.

Phil did the best he could- offer the max, but make sure everyone knows he was also offered less to help his team. Then it's all in Melo's court. If Phil had offered him less, he would have left and Phil would have been blasted for letting him get away.

smackeddog wrote:Stephen A Smith says we're still in the hunt for gasol. Don't believe it, but I hate, HATE Bargs and his depressed, vacant eyes- if we could do a sign and trade for Gasol we would not only never have to see him wear a Knick Jersey again, but we would also sleep soundly knowing that Kobe is tearing into him on a daily basis...

That would mean Hardaway and Shump would be gone. I can deal with Shump but Hardaway is a no. Gasol is not likely to make the kNicks a contender this year and giving up assets to get rid of contracts that will be coming off the books is not that smart. I could see if it was a younger player that hasn't peaked but Gasol is on the way down.

smackeddog wrote:

yellowboy90 wrote:If the Max was put on the table then you really can't take your cards back. However maybe the max was offered but without a no trade clause. The second option maybe a slightly less contract with a player option. The third maybe even less with a no trade clause and so on and so on.

Phil did the best he could- offer the max, but make sure everyone knows he was also offered less to help his team. Then it's all in Melo's court. If Phil had offered him less, he would have left and Phil would have been blasted for letting him get away.

Phil said they offered Melo 5 contracts so I was just giving a possible scenario of what the contracts maybe. It is what it is. He'll make what he will make and the knicks will just have to work around it. Their main goal should be to develop their young assets this year.

Dagger wrote:He wants a no-trade clause on top of the Max?! I'm gonna have a really hard rooting for this guy if both of these conditions are true. Throw all that talk about winning out the window. MElo needs to put MElo first! Are you sure you don't want to sign with Chicago? Just gotta hope it's not really the Max if he really can't be traded, that's all I can say. Talk about selfish IF this is true.

Why would we do him a favor with a no-trade clause when he won't even concede the tiniest fraction of money?

Because they obviously made him a priority and if I'm a player I am not signing a contract without a no trade clause so I can be sent to a place I don't want to go. That's crazy. People should get the idea of his contract of not having a No-Trade clause out of their mind. It doesn't make any sense for him not to have one.

Uptown wrote:

VCoug wrote:Oh boy, he can't be getting a max deal PLUS a no-trade clause! The only way he should be getting a no-trade is if he's taking a fairly large discount on the max, say 5 years/$100M. And unless we're somehow getting Durant in 2016, and I have no idea why he'd come here, I'm not seeing how we win 50+ games per year let alone compete for a title.

Letting Melo walk for nothing wasn't going to guarantee 'chips or 50 win seasons either.

No it wouldn't but letting him walk for nothing wouldn't hamstring us for the next 5 years either. And, again I'm repeating myself like a broken record, my preferred plan was to S&T with Chicago or another team and exchange for draft picks and/or young talent.

Right now our team is:

C: Dalembert, Aldrich
PF: Melo, Amare, Bargs
SF: Early
SG: Shump, JR, THJr, Ellington
PG: Calderon, Pablo, Larkin

Plus we have the taxpayer MLE, or possibly the full MLE if we waive Dalembert, to add another player.

Next year, our team is:

C: Aldrich?
PF: Melo
SF: Early
SG: Shump, THJr
PG: Calderon

And our cap figure will be around $36M. That doesn't include JR's $6M player option. It also doesn't include Early, our 2015 1st, or anyone we sign this year with the MLE. if you add those in we're probably talking about a cap figure of $45M.

Who are we realistically adding to that team that puts us into title contention. Or even ECF contention?

VDesai wrote:Woj says Melo will get around 120+ but not the Max

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--carmelo-anthony-returning-to-knicks-175747449.html

So a fake "discount". I've already suffered through the last 15 years, what's another 5 years of mediocrity?

Dagger wrote:He wants a no-trade clause on top of the Max?! I'm gonna have a really hard rooting for this guy if both of these conditions are true. Throw all that talk about winning out the window. MElo needs to put MElo first! Are you sure you don't want to sign with Chicago? Just gotta hope it's not really the Max if he really can't be traded, that's all I can say. Talk about selfish IF this is true.

Why would we do him a favor with a no-trade clause when he won't even concede the tiniest fraction of money?

The $120mil over 5 years IS the no-trade clause- ha!

smackeddog wrote:

Dagger wrote:He wants a no-trade clause on top of the Max?! I'm gonna have a really hard rooting for this guy if both of these conditions are true. Throw all that talk about winning out the window. MElo needs to put MElo first! Are you sure you don't want to sign with Chicago? Just gotta hope it's not really the Max if he really can't be traded, that's all I can say. Talk about selfish IF this is true.

Why would we do him a favor with a no-trade clause when he won't even concede the tiniest fraction of money?

The $120mil over 5 years IS the no-trade clause- ha!

Lol good one