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2/29/2016  9:34 AM    LAST EDITED: 2/29/2016  9:34 AM
You have superstar who can go and get himself a chip and a lot of winning with contender but instead buried himself with rebuilding team with no way to win anything or even get to the play-offs for the rest of his precious 2-3 remaining year of active bbal.
With all his shortcomings every fan need to appreciate his ultimate sacrifice.
He can get same money and same brand support anywhere he goes but he is here for the City of NY.
If he will play less (around 25 min) and shoot less (like 15 attempts) he will be fantastic.
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2/29/2016  9:43 AM
Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

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2/29/2016  9:48 AM
Leave it to ChuckBuck to post comments from the wine-basted, extinguisher fighting one as "facts".

Chucky does the line "stoudemire doesn't think" mean anything to you?

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2/29/2016  9:55 AM
jrodmc wrote:Leave it to ChuckBuck to post comments from the wine-basted, extinguisher fighting one as "facts".

Chucky does the line "stoudemire doesn't think" mean anything to you?

Hey, Amare said it, I'm just the messenger.

Just because Melo's ex teammates hate his ass, don't take it out on me.

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2/29/2016  10:18 AM
ChuckBuck wrote:Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

Those are all fair points, sorry to say.

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2/29/2016  10:24 AM
ChuckBuck wrote:Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

Broken down age of 31? Wow in a year i am screwed i guess. Please stop humiliating yourself.

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2/29/2016  10:26 AM
Knixkik wrote:
ChuckBuck wrote:Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

Broken down age of 31? Wow in a year i am screwed i guess. Please stop humiliating yourself.

31 in NBA years is different than you in dog years.

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2/29/2016  10:31 AM
Agree but should we be so concerned with Melo? He was playing best team ball of his career prior to freak ankle injury. In spite of coming of knee injury. Still leads team in scoring assists and rebounds on most nights. My only concern is that PJ does not run him into ground and he can walk next year cuz he is not going anywhere.

Should we be more concerned with our already pronounced Franchise Player after just half a season. He shot 3 for 12 last night. And in spite of 4 blocks, at 7'3, had a bad +/- night as well. Or perhaps his lack of inside development afforded to him by the staff. Or his Euro big man affinity for the 3pt. shot? Don't want to be like the many that make crazy predictions on a player after small bit of play.

Or what about our dated system that needs to come along with MJ and Pippen or Shaq and Kobe to succeed. What decent point guard would want to play for it? Don't like Rondo but his comments were truthful as he has no filter. What point guard dreams on an offense where he dribbles and gets to the same spot every time. Fun. Tough to draw in a good one. Which BTW is our biggest concern. We are currently firing a guy with bad knees who we also expect to lead in rebounds, scoring and play 40 minutes of defense to be our PG. And No, Gallo nor Grant are the answer.

Then we have our reserves. So good that Rambo has been unable to play KP and Melo together. Not the formula that anyone envisioned. So we have a lot more problems than Melo. At least we are better than last year, unless Melo wpuld have played the second half.
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2/29/2016  10:37 AM
ChuckBuck wrote:Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

Love the part where Berman, former guy who covered tennis and who's true calling is donuts, says that it could not be confirmed he was talking about Melo but.....

And we should listen to STAT, as he was not the cause of anything bad while he was here. Except for wasted 2 years of service. A broken extinguisher glass in the playoffs. And lots 9f spilled wine.

I thought we all agreed not to post useless Fat Guy Berman articles unless they were about Burgers and Donuts? Next we are going to allow Ethics articles from shady lawyers and politician's.

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2/29/2016  10:42 AM
HofstraBBall wrote:
ChuckBuck wrote:Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

Love the part where Berman, former guy who covered tennis and who's true calling is donuts, says that it could not be confirmed he was talking about Melo but.....

And we should listen to STAT, as he was not the cause of anything bad while he was here. Except for wasted 2 years of service. A broken extinguisher glass in the playoffs. And lots 9f spilled wine.

I thought we all agreed not to post useless Fat Guy Berman articles unless they were about Burgers and Donuts? Next we are going to allow Ethics articles from shady lawyers and politician's.

The major takeaway here is thank god players like Amare are no longer on the roster. Amare was the most bitter player when here. In addition, he used to make crazy comments all the time in the media then do the exact opposite, or more often than not dress for the game in formal wear (not available to play). Last season, he made quotes about the effort, proceeded to go on about how he was feeling great, then was out for a month and a half. Guy is delusional. So happy he is gone.

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2/29/2016  10:43 AM
ChuckBuck wrote:
Knixkik wrote:
ChuckBuck wrote:Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

Broken down age of 31? Wow in a year i am screwed i guess. Please stop humiliating yourself.

31 in NBA years is different than you in dog years.

You compared Melo to Stoudemire as far as injuries in another thread and used false information to support your claim. You averaged out Melo's games played over the past 5 years and did not factor in the lockout season. You literally are so caught up in hating him that you will make up stats to support it. Very sad.

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2/29/2016  11:30 AM    LAST EDITED: 2/29/2016  11:31 AM
This thread is not about what player is 2016 version of Melo.
This thread is about sacrifice.
Willingly or unwillingly Melo sacrificed the reminder of his NBA life to help Knicks to get through the dark time of rebuilding.

What his choices did with the Knicks is the water under the bridge.
And it was not his choices but rather Dolan and MSG choices.
So Melo is not responsible for this decisions.
If Knicks will not accommodate his demands at a time other team would.
If no one then he would change his demands... But I doubt this was ever needed.

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2/29/2016  12:44 PM    LAST EDITED: 2/29/2016  12:45 PM
SwishAndDish13 wrote:
HofstraBBall wrote:
ChuckBuck wrote:Uh uh Ahhhhh, not sooo fast!

http://deadspin.com/amare-stoudemire-doesnt-think-carmelo-anthony-has-handl-1761914908

Stat on Melo being selfish prick:

“When you get involved in this situation, you have to take ownership of it,” Stoudemire said. “You have to make sure you made the right decisions for your team and teammates. You have to become a complete player in order to bring your team out of a rut. Everyone can’t do it.”

Stat on Melo being jelly at Lin's shine:

“If [Lin] stayed, it would’ve been cool,” Stoudemire said. “But everyone wasn’t a fan of him being a new star. So he didn’t stay long. Jeremy was a great, great guy, great with teammates, worked hard. He put the work in. We were proud of him having his moment. A lot of times you got to enjoy somebody else’s success. That wasn’t the case for us during that stretch. You got to enjoy that and let that player enjoy himself and cherish those moments. He was becoming a star and I didn’t think everyone was pleased with that.”

Sucks that Melo decided to mature from his prissy self at the broken down age of 31. If he was younger, he'd sooooo want KP out of town, but oh well. Better to have DadMelo then no Melo at all, right guys?

Love the part where Berman, former guy who covered tennis and who's true calling is donuts, says that it could not be confirmed he was talking about Melo but.....

And we should listen to STAT, as he was not the cause of anything bad while he was here. Except for wasted 2 years of service. A broken extinguisher glass in the playoffs. And lots 9f spilled wine.

I thought we all agreed not to post useless Fat Guy Berman articles unless they were about Burgers and Donuts? Next we are going to allow Ethics articles from shady lawyers and politician's.

The major takeaway here is thank god players like Amare are no longer on the roster. Amare was the most bitter player when here. In addition, he used to make crazy comments all the time in the media then do the exact opposite, or more often than not dress for the game in formal wear (not available to play). Last season, he made quotes about the effort, proceeded to go on about how he was feeling great, then was out for a month and a half. Guy is delusional. So happy he is gone.

It's all good. Don't blame people for posting Stat's verbal diarrhea as fair and balanced reporting. If it paints this franchise blight we're saddled with who just happens to be leading the team in everything, it's got to be true and very "reasonable".

Yes, Stat, that all around complete player who couldn't defend your local girl's high school star. The same Stat who made such tremendous decisions during his career here.

Yes, Lin didn't stay because Melo didn't want him too. It had nothing to do with 21 million dollars over 3 years for what turned out to be a journeyman sub for Toney Douglas and Patrick Beverly. Because Melo made our GM hide in a closet.

Next up, ChuckBuck digs up some quality quotes telling us how Steve Novak and Landry Fields would have been HOF'ers here if it wasn't for that beeyatch greedy bastid Melo! Stay tuned!

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2/29/2016  12:48 PM
lots of talk lately about how, just like patrick, we will only appreciate what we have in Melo when he's gone.

seriously? we have sucked for every year but one with melo. I don't think i will miss the MElo era one iota. It's more similarly to the David Lee Jamal Crawford years than the Ewing years. And I don't miss Lee or Crawford at all.

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2/29/2016  12:53 PM
anrst wrote:lots of talk lately about how, just like patrick, we will only appreciate what we have in Melo when he's gone.

seriously? we have sucked for every year but one with melo. I don't think i will miss the MElo era one iota. It's more similarly to the David Lee Jamal Crawford years than the Ewing years. And I don't miss Lee or Crawford at all.

Yup. Knicks have a losing regular season record overall since Melo put on a uniform in 2011 and a 7-14 record in postseason play.

No difference except 1 trip to the 2nd round in the playoffs in 2013.

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2/29/2016  1:21 PM
Fuck Amare and his wine baths. Fuck the media baiting him into this conversation.

It's 2016. We have our own set of problems to deal with.

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2/29/2016  1:37 PM
EnySpree wrote:Fuck Amare and his wine baths. Fuck the media baiting him into this conversation.

It's 2016. We have our own set of problems to deal with.

exactly

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2/29/2016  2:01 PM    LAST EDITED: 2/29/2016  2:05 PM
EnySpree wrote:Fuck Amare and his wine baths. Fuck the media baiting him into this conversation.

It's 2016. We have our own set of problems to deal with.

+1.

Crazy how Amare also said he needed to surround himself with other "class A players", which suggests he still sees himself as one. He hasn't been since 2010-2011. That was a long time ago. He is very delusional.

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2/29/2016  2:58 PM    LAST EDITED: 2/29/2016  3:05 PM
martin wrote:
EnySpree wrote:Fuck Amare and his wine baths. Fuck the media baiting him into this conversation.

It's 2016. We have our own set of problems to deal with.

exactly

Disagree. I think STAT's comments are quite candid. I'd even say he handled it with some decorum, not naming Melo by name, saying he still cares about NY and hopes the situation improves for us soon etc. The gist here is that Melo isn't all he's cracked up to be as a player, leader and as a person. On top of that he's breaking down physically and his skills are declining, all while making top dollar along with this friggin' NTC. The situation's a mess and will only get worse. Look at his comments when we just brought up Jimmer -- calling him "Jimmy" and telling the reporter 'I thought you said we got someone?'. Come on man--was that necessary?? Is that the stuff you wanna hear out of our team leader? No, it isn't.. I feel I can speak out on this because I wanted him traded back during his FA tour. We needed to unload him then to the highest bidder. I bet Phil wishes he had that over again...And now Phil needs to sit down with him man to man and see if they can reach an accord about waiving the NTC and moving him to a place where he's comfortable. He needs to understand that that's in this team's best interest, not sticking it out because he doesn't want to be perceived as a quitter. That will do nothing but hinder us..Instead of saying Fuck STAT--tell us exactly which comments of his you had a problem with. Outside of opening his mouth and kicking us while we're down (should've taken the high road and not said anything), I think his comments are all pretty valid. Maybe that's why they sting so much.

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2/29/2016  3:04 PM
Finestrg wrote:
martin wrote:
EnySpree wrote:Fuck Amare and his wine baths. Fuck the media baiting him into this conversation.

It's 2016. We have our own set of problems to deal with.

exactly

Disagree. I think STAT's comments are quite candid. I'd even say he handled it with some decorum, not naming Melo by name, saying he still cares about NY and hopes the situation improves for us soon etc. The gist here is that Melo isn't all he's cracked up to be as a player, leader and as a person. On top of that he's breaking down physically and his skills are declining, all while making top dollar along with this friggin' NTC. The situation's a mess and will only get worse. Look at his comments when we just brought up Jimmer -- calling him "Jimmy" and telling the reporter 'I thought you said we got someone?'. Come on man--was that necessary?? Is that the stuff you wanna hear out of our team leader? No, it isn't.. I feel I can speak out on this because I wanted him traded back during his FA tour of different cities. We needed to unload him then to the highest bidder. And now Phil needs to sit down with him man to man and see if they can reach an accord about waiving the NTC and moving him to a place where he's comfortable. He needs to understand that that's in this team's best interest, not sticking it out because he doesn't want to be perceived as a quitter...Instead of saying Fuck STAT--tell us exactly which comments of his you had a problem with. Outside of opening his mouth and kicking us while we're down (should've taken the high road and not said anything), I think his comments are all pretty valid. Maybe that's why they sting so much.

So you thin Amare was not bitter because he was replaced as the Big name in NY. And BTW F Jimmy as well!! Nothing bit a dream. Failed everywhere he has been but now it's suppose to be different and everyone owes him a fifth chance? And who the hell would think Jimmer is a real name.

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