martin wrote:

mreinman wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:This thing that carmelo is not worth a small fortune is crazy. We just traded Tim hardaway for pick #19 in a good draft. Carmelo is worth atleast 1 unrestricted pick plus another a good established player and a good young player.

Id easily keep him if not. I would not take less than a 2 first round 1 high end prospect 1 established GOOD player trade. Carmelo's still a high end player--he just might not be meant for the Knicks.

I thought that Carmelo makes much more that THJ but I could be wrong.

He does and also is a much better player that THJ will ever be.

Of course he is but its all about that salary. I think that very few teams would be willing to take that on, and the few that would are not ready to give up a big package as well.

mreinman wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

mreinman wrote:

Nalod wrote:Im long on the idea of Melo to Chitown for Butler.

you think that chicago wants to take on that salary?

Exactly. I thought they only offered him around $75 mil, and that was before he had season-ending surgery

and we want butler too?

if they want to do a sign and trade for butler, I am sure that they can get back a nice valuable package.

I'd think they would value scoring from Melo especially due to their last playoff performances.

martin wrote:

franco12 wrote:if there was a realistic destination for him this off season, it would be Cleveland.

why? what could CLE give up that the Knicks could grow with?

The Miami suggestion seems decent - Justise and Dragic - but would the Knicks really want to load up Miami?

I agree - in terms of what we get back - not sure what cleveland can send us - Mozgov & K Love? Maybe a three way?

I say Cleveland because his best bud is the GM there (LeBron!)

Denver still has Wilson Chandler and Gallo and Chandler could be easily traded for a 1st rounder, same for Gallo who went through many injury seasons
Koufus also got them a late 2nd rounder and one young player

Though the 50m-60m + in salaries and tax in salaries by not absorbing Eddy Curry's salary, has over 4 1st round picks right there

ALL OF THIS just so CA could get an extra year of salary so he can OPT OUT OF IT, so that extra year means NOTHING
If he finished out the season, he would be due for an extra year of service and earn more money though it would still be less than what he made, about 10m or less *cause most of it was in the final year of salary which he opts out of anyway*

So all the assets that we used to bring him home cost us more draft picks/money to try to surround him with talent that teams didn't even want, as we didn't have many options
Most importantly, we would not have had Billups and saved the amnesty, and CP3 likely would be a Knick or maybe even Iggy..

Would have liked to see what the PRE trade Knicks would have done as that was their best year by far, and if STAT would have broken down earlier or continue his high level of play as the #1 option...
Felton would likely have been traded for a positive sum of something as well, hard to imagine what our roster would look like but the years that Isiah drafted/Walsh waited to mature and finding of The Russian were ALL SENT OUR TO BE THE WORSE TRADE OF ALL SPORTS WITH PATRICK EWING and EDDY CURRY

Honesty,
I would be happy to get by 1/4 of what we gave up