Bippity10 wrote:

Nalod wrote:

crzymdups wrote:After thinking about this for a bit, I came to one conclusion that amused me.

If Chris Broussard is saying the one place Lebron should have gone to be a title contender is New York... where do you think Carmelo Anthony is thinking about going - given he plays the same position as Lebron?

.............good point, but not in a value to value trade. He either comes via free agency or Denver relents to get some value and we give them some save face value.

Im not saying im in favor of one vs another, but its fun to think of melo on this team, not one that does not 2-3 core role players.

I'd like to think Melo buys into the system even if he loses stats. everyone gets easy shots when it opens up.

I'd like to think Melo can make Gallo better. Or Wilson better. Or Fields better and of course AMare better.

Im a fan. I know Melo is better than anyone besides Amare, but bringing in Talent in exchange for talent is not always a plus situation. Be better if he came aboard a team with a chemeistry. Felton and Amare are the Alpha dogs and Melo would have to earn his stripes. Its healthier than Starphuching which annoints the players status before he has earned it.

If no Melo we got lots of options to both improve internally and cap to bring in. ALso we have assets to sign and trade with.

In Donnie we trust.

If Melo came here via free agency and all of a sudden you had Wilson and Gallo off your bench??? That's a scary line-up

Fields would be coming off the bench and Gallo would be the starting SG. You have to keep your best shooter in the lineup. It would be ideal to have that depth no question about it.

only thing that can fug this up is a bad negotiation. example, if its a trade and denver wants too much or a signing and melo's agent gets too greedy.

and if denver is dumb enough to trade melo to another team, that team will either try to make a trade itself with ny or lose melo to fa.

the real is-- which ny team will melo be playing for? thats the only question in my book.

Bippity10 wrote:if Melo came here via free agency and all of a sudden you had Wilson and Gallo off your bench??? That's a scary line-up

can't happen... in order to have the cap space to sign Melo we'd have to let Wilson walk to free up the cap dollars... if we re-sign Wilson too then we'd have to dump Gallo & someone else's contract to make room under the cap for Melo's contract.

cheers wrote:

TMS wrote:

cheers wrote:(seriously) i think melo's decision rests in the bossom of his wife. she wants to have a career again, her husband in orange-and-blue will make that happen. happy wife happy life.

everyone knows the secret to happiness lies in La La's bossom

dude and he gets to impregnate that!

fingers crossed that in that cleavage is a knicks contract.

After seeing her in that TV show about her wedding I think she's seems HIGHLY annoying.

TMS wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:if Melo came here via free agency and all of a sudden you had Wilson and Gallo off your bench??? That's a scary line-up

can't happen... in order to have the cap space to sign Melo we'd have to let Wilson walk to free up the cap dollars... if we re-sign Wilson too then we'd have to dump Gallo & someone else's contract to make room under the cap for Melo's contract.

i know right, thats why i talk about trading wilson, its not that i want to lose wilson (hell nah!) its a numbers game. to wilson's credit he has made himself hella valueable. to keep wilson, knicks would need a three/four team trade going on that involves trading gallo for melo. since i just dont see a straight up trade happening.

cheers wrote:

TMS wrote:

Bippity10 wrote:if Melo came here via free agency and all of a sudden you had Wilson and Gallo off your bench??? That's a scary line-up

can't happen... in order to have the cap space to sign Melo we'd have to let Wilson walk to free up the cap dollars... if we re-sign Wilson too then we'd have to dump Gallo & someone else's contract to make room under the cap for Melo's contract.

i know right, thats why i talk about trading wilson, its not that i want to lose wilson (hell nah!) its a numbers game. to wilson's credit he has made himself hella valueable. to keep wilson, knicks would need a three/four team trade going on that involves trading gallo for melo. since i just dont see a straight up trade happening.

Wilson's my favorite player on this team, but we gotta let go of sentimentality here & consider the longterm benefits of acquiring a bonafide star player to play alongside Amare... we're looking at losing him either way if we trade for Melo or he signs here as a FA... there's no way the Knicks will pass up an opportunity to sign Melo if he wants to come here, so basically Wilson is pretty much the odd man out in any scenario... sucks that we have to lose a talented guy like that but we gotta face facts here.