Pf:KP
Sf:Melo
C :Willy
Pg:Ramon Sessions
Sg:Tim Hardaway

Courtney Lee, Frank, Noah, Kuz, Lance, KOQ, Randle, Dotson... possibly Baker.

What happens next?

Next: I hope it's a Melo trade that gets us picks
But: It may well be Kyrie trade that loses picks

If we end up with Kyrie/THJR backcourt, KP is good as gone in two years. There's no way he will be the focus of the offense. So there are choices to be made risks to be traded off, basically they have the assets and the timing for a full reset. What they'll do is anybody's guess.

EnySpree wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:You forgot Dotson

Next: I hope it's a Melo trade that gets us picks
But: It may well be Kyrie trade that loses picks

If we end up with Kyrie/THJR backcourt, KP is good as gone in two years. There's no way he will be the focus of the offense. So there are choices to be made risks to be traded off, basically they have the assets and the timing for a full reset. What they'll do is anybody's guess.

Yeah forgot the rookie... we also have that rookie center on the hybrid contract.

About the Kyrie/THJr backcourt... if KP leaves because he's not the focal point Then we should trade him now. The days of getting a singular savior franchise guy is over. KP "liked" a pic with with Kyrie in a Knicks jersey one instagram. That's need in the world ww live in now. So KP probavly would love the opportunity to play with Kyrie. The potential of that crew would be fun to watch.... also tough to match up with especially if Hornacek does his thing and everyone buys in.

IDK - Rose said he would be "honored" to play with Melo and KP, their behaved like one of them didn't exist. Can't read that much into s Instagram "like"

GustavBahler wrote:They're still trying to figure out what to do with Ryan Anderson. I would tell Melo that they gave it their best shot to send him to Houston. If he wants to play for a contender next season, he has to expand his wish list. The alternative is coming back to NY.

I made a thread about that and fell prey to the UK firing squad. It's one thing if there was a trade to be made, but no ist wants Ryan Anderson. The teams that are rumored to be the 3rd and 4th teams in a trade all would rather take a shot at getting Melo than helping a rival. I dont blame them.

It for nothing, The Knicks are conducting business as they should. Conservative and sticking to the new plan.

GustavBahler wrote:They're still trying to figure out what to do with Ryan Anderson. I would tell Melo that they gave it their best shot to send him to Houston. If he wants to play for a contender next season, he has to expand his wish list. The alternative is coming back to NY.

That is simply the bottom line

knicks1248 wrote:

The Rockets dangled Ryan Anderson’s contract in multi-team packages but found no takers.

General manager Daryl Morey stockpiled a handful of non-guaranteed pacts to apply to an Anthony trade for mathematical purposes but Sunday released one of those players, Jarrod Uthoff, who had $200,000 due this week if he remained on the roster. Shawn Long, Tim Quarterman and Isaiah Taylor are still non-guaranteed chips on Houston’s roster.

Ryan and d-leaguers, and maybe one other half ass player. So the 3rd team is probably Supposed to supply the knicks with a young starter, while taking Andersons Contract..

Good luck

That's not nothing new... that's always been the parameters... it's just finding that young starter a team is willing to trade four Ryan Anderson

EnySpree wrote:

knicks1248 wrote:

The Rockets dangled Ryan Anderson’s contract in multi-team packages but found no takers.

General manager Daryl Morey stockpiled a handful of non-guaranteed pacts to apply to an Anthony trade for mathematical purposes but Sunday released one of those players, Jarrod Uthoff, who had $200,000 due this week if he remained on the roster. Shawn Long, Tim Quarterman and Isaiah Taylor are still non-guaranteed chips on Houston’s roster.

Ryan and d-leaguers, and maybe one other half ass player. So the 3rd team is probably Supposed to supply the knicks with a young starter, while taking Andersons Contract..

Good luck

That's not nothing new... that's always been the parameters... it's just finding that young starter a team is willing to trade four Ryan Anderson

Thats never going to happen, Melo will be a Knick unless he wants to go to Portland. The Knicks want Harkless bad for some odd reason.

GustavBahler wrote:Hope a reporter asks him about expanding his wish list...

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-anthony-knicks-remain-trade-034408213.html

The news on the Carmelo Anthony trade front is there is no new news on the Carmelo Anthony trade front. Regardless of what unsubstantiated rumors fly out of Houston fans’ Twitter account.

The Knicks and Rockets remain at a stalemate, reports Marc Berman of the New York Post — just as Anthony is about to do a number of public appearances.

Tuesday night, Anthony will be in a place he cherishes. Not Houston, but Baltimore, where he will host The Basketball Tournament — a month-long event that is down to its final four…
A stalemate has ensued as sources indicate Anthony only wishes to waive his no-trade clause to go to the Rockets. Not even Cleveland, which is in turmoil, is good enough for Anthony as the Cavaliers are dealing with Kyrie Irving’s trade demand. The Knicks’ management tandem of Steve Mills-Scott Perry claim it won’t trade Anthony to Houston unless it cobbles together a solid deal that makes sense for the Knicks’ future. Nothing has materialized.

Anthony is likely to speak to the media at one of these events. Maybe. Even if he does, the man is polished and will not say anything particularly inflammatory.

The Knicks need leverage in these negotiations, and their one threat is they will bring Anthony into training camp and start the season with him. They may not want to, but they must have that threat to force Houston to work harder to find a third team (or fourth, someone to take on Ryan Anderson‘s contract), or to get Anthony to accept a trade to another team where a deal could get done. If Houston thinks Mills/Perry and the Knicks will eventually cave, they can wait out the summer. And that’s where we stand. Which is why the Knicks made a recent move:

In fact, a source told The Post the signing of veteran point guard Ramon Sessions partly was due to him connecting better with Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis than did Derrick Rose, who left for Cleveland via free agency.

The Knicks still want to make this trade, but they are wise not to do a deal just to get it done. They can and should be patient.

I love what this article said. One major rule of negotiating is to make it be known that you are willing to step away from the table if things don't meet your expectations. Instead of doing a bad trade I rather keep Melo and trade him at the deadline if he or a team becomes desperate. If we can't trade him at the deadline he will probably decline his option next year and leave anyway. So we won't be stuck with another teams bad contracts.

Clean wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:Hope a reporter asks him about expanding his wish list...

https://sports.yahoo.com/report-anthony-knicks-remain-trade-034408213.html

The news on the Carmelo Anthony trade front is there is no new news on the Carmelo Anthony trade front. Regardless of what unsubstantiated rumors fly out of Houston fans’ Twitter account.

The Knicks and Rockets remain at a stalemate, reports Marc Berman of the New York Post — just as Anthony is about to do a number of public appearances.

Tuesday night, Anthony will be in a place he cherishes. Not Houston, but Baltimore, where he will host The Basketball Tournament — a month-long event that is down to its final four…
A stalemate has ensued as sources indicate Anthony only wishes to waive his no-trade clause to go to the Rockets. Not even Cleveland, which is in turmoil, is good enough for Anthony as the Cavaliers are dealing with Kyrie Irving’s trade demand. The Knicks’ management tandem of Steve Mills-Scott Perry claim it won’t trade Anthony to Houston unless it cobbles together a solid deal that makes sense for the Knicks’ future. Nothing has materialized.

Anthony is likely to speak to the media at one of these events. Maybe. Even if he does, the man is polished and will not say anything particularly inflammatory.

The Knicks need leverage in these negotiations, and their one threat is they will bring Anthony into training camp and start the season with him. They may not want to, but they must have that threat to force Houston to work harder to find a third team (or fourth, someone to take on Ryan Anderson‘s contract), or to get Anthony to accept a trade to another team where a deal could get done. If Houston thinks Mills/Perry and the Knicks will eventually cave, they can wait out the summer. And that’s where we stand. Which is why the Knicks made a recent move:

In fact, a source told The Post the signing of veteran point guard Ramon Sessions partly was due to him connecting better with Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis than did Derrick Rose, who left for Cleveland via free agency.

The Knicks still want to make this trade, but they are wise not to do a deal just to get it done. They can and should be patient.

I love what this article said. One major rule of negotiating is to make it be known that you are willing to step away from the table if things don't meet your expectations. Instead of doing a bad trade I rather keep Melo and trade him at the deadline if he or a team becomes desperate. If we can't trade him at the deadline he will probably decline his option next year and leave anyway. So we won't be stuck with another teams bad contracts.