trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

EnySpree wrote:Amare for Marc and Prince works....

trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

It's like proposing we trade Shumpert and Bargs for Lebron!

VCoug wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Amare for Marc and Prince works....

trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

If Memphis is a dumb **** franchise what does that make us?

There's zero reason for Marc Gasol to demand a trade from a team and city that by all accounts he loves. There's even less of a reason for him to demand a trade to the Knicks. Even if they were willing to trade Gasol to us they'd be expecting a hell of a lot more back than a player who projects as a decent role player and a 2018 1st rounder.

The only way something like that happens is if some of the players get feed up with the F.O. actions or/and they get bounced in the 1st again.

F500ONE wrote:Do we honestly in our heart if hearts believe Marc Gasol and Carmelo win as contenders?

In this system? Very possible.

smackeddog wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Amare for Marc and Prince works....

trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

It's like proposing we trade Shumpert and Bargs for Lebron!

Come on, man. Get serious. They'd need JR too.

EnySpree wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Amare for Marc and Prince works....

trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

It's like proposing we trade Shumpert and Bargs for Lebron!

Come on, man. Get serious. They'd need JR too.

Well that's the whole idea....I make a thread you give opinion. If you think the idea needs a tweak...Please give your input. That's how message boards should work

Nah I want to steer away from giving up future assets and our young prospects. He either comes in free agency or we look for a new upcoming Gasol type player. Maybe there is a Euro big just like Gasol that will fit perfectly in the triangle that we could get for cheaper if Marc can't be had in free agency. At one point Marc was a 2nd rd pick who stayed over seas for a year and grew into the player he is today.

We should look more into options like that.

VCoug wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Amare for Marc and Prince works....

trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

It's like proposing we trade Shumpert and Bargs for Lebron!

Come on, man. Get serious. They'd need JR too.

Well that's the whole idea....I make a thread you give opinion. If you think the idea needs a tweak...Please give your input. That's how message boards should work

Nah I want to steer away from giving up future assets and our young prospects. He either comes in free agency or we look for a new upcoming Gasol type player. Maybe there is a Euro big just like Gasol that will fit perfectly in the triangle that we could get for cheaper if Marc can't be had in free agency. At one point Marc was a 2nd rd pick who stayed over seas for a year and grew into the player he is today.

We should look more into options like that.

Do you think Melo's going to agree to that? He'll be 31 this season, if we strike out next offseason do you really expect him to just sit back and hope that we'll eventually surround him with talented teammates?

Whats he gonna do void his contract?

VCoug wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

VCoug wrote:

newyorknewyork wrote:

EnySpree wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Amare for Marc and Prince works....

trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

It's like proposing we trade Shumpert and Bargs for Lebron!

Come on, man. Get serious. They'd need JR too.

Well that's the whole idea....I make a thread you give opinion. If you think the idea needs a tweak...Please give your input. That's how message boards should work

Nah I want to steer away from giving up future assets and our young prospects. He either comes in free agency or we look for a new upcoming Gasol type player. Maybe there is a Euro big just like Gasol that will fit perfectly in the triangle that we could get for cheaper if Marc can't be had in free agency. At one point Marc was a 2nd rd pick who stayed over seas for a year and grew into the player he is today.

We should look more into options like that.

Do you think Melo's going to agree to that? He'll be 31 this season, if we strike out next offseason do you really expect him to just sit back and hope that we'll eventually surround him with talented teammates?

Whats he gonna do void his contract?

Remember Vince Carter in Toronto? Remember Melo himself when he got tired of MDA? He'll pout and sabotage the team until he gets traded.

If Melo wants to win then we need as many good players on the team as possible. Trading away Early and future picks don't help the cause. Signing Gasol in free agency to go along with early and picks do. If we miss out on Gasol then we go after another free agent that we don't have to give up assets to obtain.

EnySpree wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:

smackeddog wrote:

EnySpree wrote:Amare for Marc and Prince works....

trading Early and future Draft picks is something i would do with the quickness. We have a 5 year window with Phil on board.

Memphis is a dumb **** franchise. All of their moves are questionable, from trading Rudy Gay to firing their coach.

If they would do this now since Gasol hasn't resigned...would you slap yo mama?

Seriously if Gasol privately asked for a trade, and Memphis still can enjoy the salary cap relief they were going to get from prince and Gasol plus get cleananthony and future picks.... It's not bad. Amare supposedly thinks he can make the all start game so that's good for Memphis.

You say turn down....And I say....for what?

It's like proposing we trade Shumpert and Bargs for Lebron!

Come on, man. Get serious. They'd need JR too.

Well that's the whole idea....I make a thread you give opinion. If you think the idea needs a tweak...Please give your input. That's how message boards should work

You don't say!

So joking around on message boards is verboten? Cause I was just making a silly comment in response to another post that was surely made in jest. Bad joke? Sure but notice it wasn't me who began the tangent. But anyway, duly noted: Only serious business at UK. Either post like you're defending a dissertation or don't post at all.

As for the topic at hand: Memphis may be a "dumb ****" franchise but they've managed to make the conference finals in the last year or two and are a perennial playoff team in the west so they are doing something right to go along with all their dumb****ery. I also think that while their GM is obviously a **** for brains I think if there is one thing he does understand is that Gasol is the proverbial "straw that stirs the drink" on that team and trading him for the $100 million dollar heap of human remains formerly known as Amare and other assorted pieces of Knicks flotsam would be disastrous. Memphis handing ZBo a 3 year extension also tells me that they are going to go with he status quo with their poor mans twin towers lineup.

We ether sign him outright or execute a sign and trade when he is free agent. It ain't happening before that.