Carmelo Anthony, rehabbing from surgery to repair a torn patellar tendon, was seen on the court two hours before tip-off doing stretching exercises. Anthony hasn’t spoken to the media since the surgery.

Ian Begley ‏@IanBegley · 22h22 hours ago
Carmelo Anthony was out on the Garden floor before #Knicks-Celtics continuing his rehab from knee surgery. No shooting or running yet.

TPercy wrote:I heard he will be ready to go in June

That would be great. A regular summer of working out has to be better than a summer of rehab.

WaltLongmire wrote:Good news- hopefully his recovery period is on the shorter end of the projected timetable.

The real question now- does he put on some muscle to play at the 4, or does he slim down (and remain slim) to play at the 3?

Put on muscle?Melo is strong as hell, Melo can easily play the four. it is his shoulders that is a major concern.

TPercy wrote:Wow, now we are stuck with Calderon, nobody is going to want to take calderon off our hands.

I wonder if this impacts any decision to stretch him or not. Is he expected back 100% now for next year? Can anyone guarantee that? If stretching him was never an option, maybe it will be now.

Another way to go with Calderon possibly -- if his health is iffy now after the achilles problem--at his age, would he contemplate retirement? I kind of like the idea of getting him to retire somehow but retaining him as a coach. He could be a valuable member of Fisher's staff. A fellow modern player/fellow PG, a guy that seems to have good insight into things (I always see him talking to players/explaining things during timeouts), still has a feistiness to him (he's just an older player now, but the competitiveness is still there), seems like a good guy, even though he's Spanish he speaks English well enough (no communication problems) -- if we could get a decent young PG to groom, having Fisher AND Calderon around as mentors would be great. Also, Calderon's always been a good outside shooter/FT shooter. Having he and H2O around as shooting coaches could help as well. He retires, comes off the cap as a player and we make up the salary to him as a coach. Wouldn't even have to stretch him. Everyone wins. Unless there are rules in place forbidding such a move (did something like this happen when H2O packed it in? I can't remember now).. Just a thought. I can definitely see this guy coaching eventually. I think he'd be a good one.

Splat wrote:

TPercy wrote:

WaltLongmire wrote:Good news- hopefully his recovery period is on the shorter end of the projected timetable.

The real question now- does he put on some muscle to play at the 4, or does he slim down (and remain slim) to play at the 3?

Put on muscle?Melo is strong as hell, Melo can easily play the four. it is his shoulders that is a major concern.

The plantains and batidos are a major concern

Dang, now you got me wanting some

fitzfarm wrote:

Knicks1969 wrote:All of Phil's moves have been bad in his first season: the hiring of a rookie coach like Fisher, poor trade of Chandler to acquire Dalembert and Calderon, the re-signing of an aging Carmelo, etc. I hope he makes better decision in his second year.

Is it possible Phil did it on purpose to get us a #1 top pick and knew to dump salary to give Carmelo the best team melo has ever had in his career ? Maybe Phil knew jr and iman were garbage stat was broken down , Tyson was over rated, that team would never contend for a chip ... The only way to build a contender is to create salary space and fingers crossed the number one pick.. The Knicks will be sitting very pretty come the off season

fitzfarm wrote:

Knicks1969 wrote:All of Phil's moves have been bad in his first season: the hiring of a rookie coach like Fisher, poor trade of Chandler to acquire Dalembert and Calderon, the re-signing of an aging Carmelo, etc. I hope he makes better decision in his second year.

Is it possible Phil did it on purpose to get us a #1 top pick and knew to dump salary to give Carmelo the best team melo has ever had in his career ? Maybe Phil knew jr and iman were garbage stat was broken down , Tyson was over rated, that team would never contend for a chip ... The only way to build a contender is to create salary space and fingers crossed the number one pick.. The Knicks will be sitting very pretty come the off season

Yeah Phil planned everything. Making bad trades was all part of the master plan to tank. He cleared it with Melo first of course. Like you say, got to give Melo what he wants and we know Melo's # 1 priority is winning.

Bonn1997 wrote:

Splat wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:

Knicks1969 wrote:All of Phil's moves have been bad in his first season: the hiring of a rookie coach like Fisher, poor trade of Chandler to acquire Dalembert and Calderon, the re-signing of an aging Carmelo, etc. I hope he makes better decision in his second year.

Is it possible Phil did it on purpose to get us a #1 top pick and knew to dump salary to give Carmelo the best team melo has ever had in his career ? Maybe Phil knew jr and iman were garbage stat was broken down , Tyson was over rated, that team would never contend for a chip ... The only way to build a contender is to create salary space and fingers crossed the number one pick.. The Knicks will be sitting very pretty come the off season

Yeah Phil planned everything. Making bad trades was all part of the master plan to tank. He cleared it with Melo first of course. Like you say, got to give Melo what he wants and we know Melo's # 1 priority is winning.

He's already planning the 2017 tank too! And next year's tank will be preparation for 2017.

[Shhhhhh, you'll wake up Nix]