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.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities- C.N. Bovee