BRIGGS wrote:

ramtour420 wrote:I've been trying to ignore all this Melodrama, but if we do give up Felton and Gallo in addition to the original trade proposal then two things are true.
1. Prokhorov has punked Dolan big time.
2. Isiah made this trade happen, even though the original trade proposal would have worked if he didn't get involved.

Very depressing stuff. My last hope is that Melo told Dolan during their meeting to keep the team intact as much as they can, so that he has a better chance of winning a title.

Id take focus off of what is leaving and concentrate on what is coming+ what we can do with a few days left to enhance the team now. I like the direction of the old team--bt they were not keeping either randolph or chandler. Would it been nice ot get CA cheaper both in contratc and in price paid--YES---but you deal with what is in front of yo9u and roll with it. Were getting two very good players and the best player in the deal by a good margin. Now focus has to go to enhancement.

ramtour420 wrote:I've been trying to ignore all this Melodrama, but if we do give up Felton and Gallo in addition to the original trade proposal then two things are true.
1. Prokhorov has punked Dolan big time.
2. Isiah made this trade happen, even though the original trade proposal would have worked if he didn't get involved.

Very depressing stuff. My last hope is that Melo told Dolan during their meeting to keep the team intact as much as they can, so that he has a better chance of winning a title.

Papabear Says

The man wants his 65 million. Will Dolan promise Melo that he won't loose a thing if he waits? Now if it was me I would wait and sign with the Knicks. Leaving that money on the table is hard to do. What if Melo have a major injury? Will the Knicks still take him? No!

Papabear wrote:

CHAOS wrote:I wouldn't give up the money and no one on this forum would give it up so please kill the drama. We all have jobs right ? Well if you go back to when you interviewed for your job and your boss told you that he could hire you now at your requested salary which is a 20% raise or you can wait to except the job for 5 months and stay at your current salary. WHAT WOULD YOU DO ???

Papabear Says

What??

Exactly.

CHAOS, i'll set it up differently for you.

You have 2 scenarios:

Job #1: $1.3M but not in the city you want and you don't really enjoy the job.

Job #2: $1M in the city that you want, in the city that your wife wants, and your dream job.

Which do you choose?

I choose #2 every day.

Melo is stripped of all his decisiveness, all his direction, by LaLa and her meddling ways.

Let me ask you this, you take LaLa away and do you think Melo is pushing to get off Denver? I doubt it. He's been happy there all these years, they always contended. George Karl had that team at a very high level.

But Denver is probably too cold for LaLa to wear her skimpy smut wear.

orangeblobman wrote:But Denver is probably too cold for LaLa to wear her skimpy smut wear.

Um, Denver is warmer than NYC

Paladin55 wrote:Won't deny that Anthony is the most desirable piece in all these talks, but this trade is "fool's gold" compared to what we could have ended up with and we have been played by the Nyets, Denver, and Melo, but mostly by Denver and Melo, who acts like he has is a young innocent being buffeted about by Knicks, Nuggets, and Nyets.

Melo has always had the power to dictate his own terms, to some extent, but despite his professed desire to play in NY, he and his reps have done their best to create a situation in which the Knicks were squeezed, aided, of course, by Dolan and, so it would seem, Thomas.

I keep on thinking of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's ruby slippers, and the good witch telling her that she always had the power to go home, simply by clicking her shoes and saying "There's no place like home." Seems to me that all Anthony had to say was to the Nuggets and his agent was "There's no place like New York," and we could have come away in a much stronger situation than we seem to be heading for at this point.

I am not sure I woul blame Melo. If anything he is trying NOT to get traded somewhere else. If he said it was Knicks or nothin Denver would have to send him somewhere else to save face. If you want to blame someone look no further than the owner. But let's first see how this plays out and what the real pieces are. Also interested to see what Walsh has to say in the aftermath

And on other thing .... This is not Kansas anymore (couldn't resist)