TripleThreat wrote:martin wrote:TripleThreat wrote:Knixkik wrote:It will be interesting where Melo ends up. His negative attitude towards transitioning to a different role will really limit his options. He just needs to accept he is not the same player but can still be effected in a different role. He compares his career too much to Lebron, which hurts him too.
He can shoot the three point shot at least at a league average rate. His poor shooting this year is a factor, but you have to look across his entire career. Yes, he's a shotjacker/chucker and his shot selection is putrid. But for the vet minimum, he's a bargain. I think he can get better than that, even in a cap locked market situation.
If, and a huge IF, he opted out, plenty of teams would give him a four year deal simply for the marketing push it would bring. Not a max four year deal, but a 4/48 or a 4/60 or a 4/40 type of deal.
He can no longer consistently create his own shot, but can still do it enough where he needs to be covered all the time. Since he's a future HOFer and an Olympian and a CAA client, it means he will still get a ton of free contact/some ref calls in his favor.
Saying no team will want him is a bit nuts. At the vets minimum, he could be useful. Very useful.
And I say this as someone who thinks he's an idiot and the opposite of anything pure about the game in terms of team work and fundamentals.
Which teams? I'd like to know which teams would commit to Melo for 4 years.
To clarify to start, I'll say again, teams would be willing to commit, I wouldn't say Melo would want to commit to them back.
If he signed for 4/40 ( Which he would never do), the Hawks wouldn't blink and would sign him. They have the worst attendance in the league and have cap space this offseason. Would it help their marketing push across the bottom line? I honestly doubt it, but the team actually has to try to do something.
He'd be better off opting in, taking his 28 million, getting a buyout, try to ring chase for the vets minimum and try to rehab his value a little to try to get a three year deal next offseason.
If his AAV would be low enough, the Clippers would sign him for four years. The location would fit his stupid branding issue and with Jordan leaving and Griffin and Paul already gone, they need some kind of marketing face for the franchise.
LeBron James is an idiot and has a history of overpaying power forwards who can't play defense. Anywhere he goes is a threat to sign Melo to a poor market based deal.
If the AAV is low enough, the Heat and Mavericks would play ball as well. Both have established coaches and systems that have proven to take wayward players and give them another chance.
The Knicks are a CASH RICH team. They don't have a problem selling tickets. This is not true for much of the NBA around them. I think fans here sometimes forget that. No, he's not the player he used to be, but he has lingering name recognition. That still has marketing value. With Melo comes the full weight of Creative Artist Agency and Leon Rose as well.
In his case, the length of his deal would be relative to his AAV. The lower the AAV, the more teams would go into play. If he was willing to sign for 4/32, half the league would have interest. I'm not one to defend Melo, because he is a truly toxic type player for team basketball, but playing with Russell Westbrook is not easy for anyone.
And Yes, at the vets minimum, the Warriors would take him if they had an open roster spot and could manager their center situation early in the offseason. They are one of the few teams that could hide him defensively.
He can shoot long range and can create his own shot sometimes. That's not enough to help true team basketball but not every team is going to think that way. Some just want to make any move to try to get traction. Some GMs are going to try to do anything to save their jobs. Some ownerships will just want more ticket sales.
There is just too much talent scarcity around the league in general for Melo's value to be completely shot, even with a putrid year like this one.
Never kick the dog when it's down has suddenly never seemed so poignantly true... I never thought I would see the day... Melo actually being cited for some sort of value, even if it's just name recognition and agency connections. Poor Melo, he had to play with Westbrook... LMAO ... The wheel has turned completely. 
Melo doesn't chase rings. If he did, he wouldn't have come here, or waive an NTC to go deteriorate further with an insanely ball dominant stat chaser like Westbrook.
Would the hated, toxic, cancerous, team-malignancy, No-D, No-pass prodigal return? Could the fabric of the universe even withstand that?
Then LeQ signs for the rest of Dolan's checkbook for one year? And KP gets some sort of cellular regeneration therapy and plays this upcoming season? Although what would that do to Clyde's credibility? The drama... Pseudo Elite Starphucquing ...
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