SupremeCommander wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:We just f'ed ourselves.

nonsense. If I'm an elite PG, where would I like to sign in UFA? A team with two of the best offensive forwards in the league? Or the current team, with a bunch of role players? Or just stay where you are?

The team is a .500 team. Chauncey Billups isn't as good as Felton now, but he can hit a deep shot. Melo and Amar'e give a shot at a first round upset. Would you want to play the Knicks?

I am happy

If I'm an opposing team, I'm looking at our frontcourt and drooling. Then I'm looking at Amar'e and thinking "Wow, he gets into foul woes easily anyway, now it's going to be easier. We are going to get demolished defensively.

MaTT4281 wrote:

martin wrote:

VDesai wrote:Are the Nugs getting our first rounder and Minny's first rounder?

and apparently our future second rounders.

I just saw we included the 2nd rounders from GS?!
Man, I was finally feeling good that NY wasn't the laughingstock of the trade community anymore. A pretty girl smiled at us and we went out and bought her a diamond ring.

I'm not sure I like this trade at all. Happy we kept Fields and Amar'e, but those are like the only critical pieces we kept. Why didn't we just toss Amar'e in too? Ha.

VDesai wrote:Never mind- we also got sheldon and Brewer went no where. What did Minny give up?

Y! Sports: NY: Melo, CB, Balkman, Williams, Carter; DEN: Gallo, Mosgov, Felton, Chandler, '14 NY 1st & 2 2nds; Minn: Randolph and Curry.

Minnie gave up cap space - by eating curry's contract. Only way to balance the money.

I don't see us playing SSOL with Billups and this is not going to be a very gast team any more.

loweyecue wrote:Does this also mean the end of ?

I don't see us playing SSOL with Billups and this is not going to be a very gast team any more.

Billups ran MDA's offense really well in the world games.

Uptown wrote:Cup half full look at the trade:

Felton and Billups is a wash, so essentially we traded Gallo, Chandler and Mozgov for Melo and to be frank, if the playing feild were opened up and allowed all NBA teams to bid for Melo's services, our offer would have been trumped easily.

And AR and Curry - why do people keep missing that? And a firts rounder......WTF??????????

VDesai wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

VDesai wrote:Never mind- we also got sheldon and Brewer went no where. What did Minny give up?

Y! Sports: NY: Melo, CB, Balkman, Williams, Carter; DEN: Gallo, Mosgov, Felton, Chandler, '14 NY 1st & 2 2nds; Minn: Randolph and Curry.

Minnie gave up cap space - by eating curry's contract. Only way to balance the money.

Yeah, but they got Anthony Randolph for basically free? Looks like they didn't give up a first rounder or Brewer according to that Spears report.

The cap space facilitated the deal. It saved Denver like $20 M by not having to have Curry hit their cap.

$20M is a big big big deal.

loweyecue wrote:Does this also mean the end of ?

I don't see us playing SSOL with Billups and this is not going to be a very gast team any more.

ramanboy33 wrote:The Knicks just stole Carmelo.

Yeah, basically.

I think we might look back on this as our Kevin Garnet trade.

Celtics gave up Al Jefferson, Gomes, Telfair, multiple draft picks etc and Celts fans were actually upset at the price and thought they didn't have any depth left. Think they like the KG trade now?

This trade makes us CONTENDERS for 4-5 years. CONTENDERS.

Something tells me Donnie didn't handle the negotiations here but I really hope that he is the man in charge for the go forward...although all logical signs tell me this won't be the case

With that said, looking at the bright side, we just added another star player and are closer to becoming a contending team. Amare/Melo + the best offensive coach in basketball has me excited and I think with the right leadership in the front office, we can definitely build a team that has a shot at contention.