Bonn1997 wrote:Melo is owed a hundred mil and just had a serious knee surgery. Would you give up a top lottery pick to get him? Would you even sign him as an FA to a hundred mil for yrs 13 to 16 right now if he was an FA (forget having to also give up a high lottery pick)? The same reason we'd love to do this trade is why the other team wouldn't do it.

Id assume that Melo would be looked at by doctors every which way. But you're right I wouldnt do it either--but the Sacramento owner might.

In the meantime, Phil and Fisher are going to try to make it work. I can hope they succeed.

I'd like to think adding a couple of key parts can get us respectable again.

But I also would have thought a 14 win season for this squad was an absurd prediction at the beginning of the year.

franco12 wrote:I don't see Melo going anywhere this summer. Next trade deadline soonest, and the following summer when every team has new cap room and can acquire him for a 2nd rounder as the practical soonest time we can hope to have relief.

In the meantime, Phil and Fisher are going to try to make it work. I can hope they succeed.

I'd like to think adding a couple of key parts can get us respectable again.

But I also would have thought a 14 win season for this squad was an absurd prediction at the beginning of the year.

Bonn1997 wrote:Melo is owed a hundred mil and just had a serious knee surgery. Would you give up a top lottery pick to get him? Would you even sign him as an FA to a hundred mil for yrs 13 to 16 right now if he was an FA (forget having to also give up a high lottery pick)? The same reason we'd love to do this trade is why the other team wouldn't do it.

bingo.

All owners are dumb and love being trade raped but poster GM's

EwingsGlass wrote:I can understand the Trade Melo talk given the time horizon he has and the fact that we are all ready to rebuild. But that no-trade clause is a damper. This article give some insight... he just spent $11MM on a condo combination. Melo is now a permanent resident of NYC. He is not going anywhere.

https://streeteasy.com/blog/carmelo-anthony-buys-west-chelsea-apartment/

Oh man he could rent that out for two years and get 13mm for it in 2018.

TripleThreat wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:But you're right I wouldnt do it either--but the Sacramento owner might.

He might, for less than your original trade quote and probably would want to push some bad contracts back onto the Knicks.

In any scenario, even if the Knicks can strongarm Melo into waiving his No Trade Clause, it will be a sell low situation. IMHO there is no trade situation that doesn't represent a sell low for Melo.

Given the bargaining leverage of a NTC ( Melo isn't going to a team gutted to get him there, even he can see that will lead him nowhere), Melo would have to move for pennies on the dollar in terms of value.

Veterans have historically not given a **** about draft picks and I doubt that Melo departs from that thinking. If we're moving Melo, those picks are EXACTLY what we'd want so I don't necessarily see us having to sell low. Fortunately for us, the Lakers have a lottery pick this year and I suspect that they'd be inclined to move it and the 25th for Melo and an asset.

Melo to Sacramento though, has no chance of happening. He craves the bright lights and is too brand conscious to play for a team in the middle of No Where, California.