Melo was a high level All Star and you have to break the bank when they become available.

Pippen wasn't projected to be what he became at the time.

The McDyess deal was AWFUL. Although I'd argue the Eddy Curry deal was the worst of all time. I remember WHERE I was at work when I heard it over the radio. I remember all the misplaced positivity - "well we finally got our Center."

JesseDark wrote:

ThePunisher wrote:Easily the Dyse deal.

Melo was a high level All Star and you have to break the bank when they become available.

Pippen wasn't projected to be what he became at the time.

The McDyess deal was AWFUL. Although I'd argue the Eddy Curry deal was the worst of all time. I remember WHERE I was at work when I heard it over the radio. I remember all the misplaced positivity - "well we finally got our Center."

I remember screaming at the TV too. We should have just taken NeNe and walked away. We really got bamboozled in that one. KiKi Vandawhee was the Denver GM at the time.

It's crazy, and sickening, to look back at how many draft rights for All-Stars and MVP candidates the Knicks have given up

jrodmc wrote:

Knixkik wrote:Melo deal isn't even in the conversation. It produced our most successful run of the 2000s, so there is still, and always will be, a debate to whether or not that deal was worth it. The Eddy Curry deal stands out to me as the biggest disaster. It set us back many years. The Bargnani deal was really bad too. The only reason so many hate the Melo deal is because some want to prove it was a disaster, despite the short-term success it produced and lack of development out of the players traded. While it wasn't a home run, it was far from the disaster of some others.

This.

Yeah, I hated sweeping what was left of the Celtics and going to the second round of the playoffs, didn't you? Really grim times.
And it's amazing that with the exception of Wilson Chandler, the only list Moz and Gallo turn up on is the Top 10 Worst Contracts in the NBA. But lets forget all that and please, PLEASE somebody post something about losing HOF Jeremy Lin to Houston for nothing.

Thats all we got in 7 years. And do you remember what happened? Sweep? Nope. They were up 3-0 and then dressed in black for the "funeral" to end Bostons run with Garnett and Pierce. Boston won the next two games and the knicks. Instead of finishing off a wounded warrior they clowned and awoke a sleeping giant.
Statistically Melo had a great series. By the time they Met Indy they were fried. Melo hurt his shoulder and JR got indignant which is what he does under pressure.
It was a fun season that retired Kurt, Kidd, RashWeed, K-Mart and Camby. Kurt and Rashweed never made it to the playoffs.

Melo had a great year. Father time crept up. The next season the team was already in place when Grunwald was fired IN OCTOBER. MIlls was incharge until March when Phil was hired. It was a 37 win season and some how some harp that we broke up a good thing. Bargnani was supposed to fill in the gap.
In retrospect the obvious is Phil should have let Melo walk but with just one pick in the next three drafts we at least had a "Star" willing to stay. Rose was a good gamble and Noah was a false concept but PHil was trying to at least stay reasonable for two years until we could get youthier.

Melo trade synopsis? It was a draw. I doubt Gallo, Mozzy and Wilson would have retired as knicks and perhaps the melo deal prevented us from Deron Williams so in the end it was fair for both Knicks and Denver. Both had one great season and in parallel fell afterwards.

Knicks did not sweep Celtics and then lost to a lower seed. Knicks had a great finish to get the 2nd seed in the east in part to Melo's top 5 mvp season but we cooked getting there.