jimkcchief88
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See my old school David Lee triple double thread for my response
Melo Willing to take Pay Cut for Knicks
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Cliffnote version of a couple previous posts I made in this thread and what present news do we have in regards to this scenario?.....See below
There's some other telling info in this article. I guess Melo isn't really serious about making the sacrifice that has the best chance of paying off. Oh and according to Isola....
Melo's camp thinks 2015 is MYTHICAL UNICORNY..<-------I tried to told ya'll it is. What team do you know maxes out a player, then delays the rebuilding a year with limited picks in bi-annual yrs?
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/isola-dolan-bye-melo-start-article-1.1710993
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Melo offering to take a Pay cut is a brilliant marketing strategy and he cannot lose.
If no with a decent market offers a MELO max contract he can always fall back on the Knicks take a slight pay cut.
I di not see any NBA offering a 30 year old Melo a MAX 4 year deal. There is just too much young talent in and coming into the league for a team to do that.
After watching what is going on in NY who in the world would want to come here.....We said the samething after Isiah and all we have to show for it was Amare ( that nobody would give a 5 year max deal to ), Chandler ( again Dallas would not pay him ) and MELO who there has always been that winning/making teamates better question...
seems to be we are doomed and that just blows.....for years we could fool ourselves and believe but now even being dillusional is gone.
I'm also tired of hearing free agents media talk about a free agent's (CAMP or TEAM)
Listen bishes you have only 1 team and that's who you currently play for or no team at all if you're unemployed. CAA is not a TEAM. It's an agency/marketing firm, be it one of the largest in the entertainment industry but cut the crap talk of "I'll see what my TEAM wants to do as far as planning goes, we'll sit down and discuss things as a TEAM"......
As if you came off some back-to-back and you're contemplating if you should get in some additional practice time until the next gig or as if it's some exclusive Players only meeting held after hella play, amidst a 10gm losing streak.
It sounds so retarded and overplayed.
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Lebron's so called 'TEAM" made a jackass of him.........You are so right,,,,,,,,such nonsense....
The truth is these so called " Teams " works for the knicks because a player has to be a fool to come play for Dolan.....at the end of the day he calls the shots......
Monday is the day we'll see all this begin to play out.
Which is exactly what Phil asked him to do but looks like he's passing up this option as I figured.
Rudy Gay opted in. He chose to keep his $19.3mil he's slated to make on Sac's books this year. As did Amar'e and Bargs
CoolClyde
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not sure if i can merge so it goes to top of page, that may be a job for Rady
I would agree with u if Phil Jackson resign ball-hogging ISO-Melo, and rookie coach Fisher gives ISO-Melo 45 minutes per game.
If Melo is not a Knicks next season then big-forwards Amare & Barg will have a 20-7 ending contract season playing 30 minutes per game shooting above 50%, that's without ISO-Melo controlling the ball, and without ball-hogging Melo controlling the head-coach substitution.
There was a reason last season I labeled our coach "Puppet-Woodson" after watching 2 seasons of poor substitution coaching in the 2012, and 2013 playoffs.
Chauncey Billups showed us in one playoff game that Carmelo Anthony has no-skills in playing the PG spot, and has no-skills at leading the point as a point-forward. And for two seasons we watch Puppet-Woodson let Carmelo Anthony play as the Knicks PG, point-forward, and PF. Three positions Carmelo Anthony has NO-SKILLS in performing.
One of the season 2012-13 were save by HOF Jason Kidd playing PG in the 4th quarter of a 82 game season.
Jason Kidd did not perform as the Knicks PG throughout the first 3 quarters of the game.
jimkcchief88
All Star
Kiya dude u are tripping. "No skills"??? A scoring title says differently...40 plus minutes a game says differently...28 and 8 says differently...c'mon man
Hopefully, for the sake of a winning Knicks team this will be the FINAL thread of Carmelo Anthony in KO.
On October 15, 2013. Dum-Dum Carmelo should have announce taking a pay-cut at the end of the season for the Knicks. Not announce "Opting-Out" during the Preseason games.
And then months later announce taking a "Pay-Cut" as a FA during the All-Star Games!
when Melo found out at the all-star games the FA market in 2014 wasn't looking so good for a high salary star scorer...ha ha ha ha so the title of this thread are wrong.
Melo announce taking a pay-cut during the all-star games for the 2014 FA market. Let's get it right.
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44% fg
37% 3-ball
Taking 23 shots per game, which doesn't include all the shots taking when fouled.
Ball-hogging for 40 to 46 minutes a game.
Plus letting his defenders get season/career high scoring.
And defensive-switching he makes the entire team look bad.
TheScowl
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What he wrote was no skills for playing PG, point fwd and PF. No one doubts his skills as a scorer.
I'd say has some PF skills (solid reb.). His assist totals bring his point skills into question.
gmf1369
Benchwarmer
If Melo is still willing to come back to New York, maybe a contract like this could favor both Anthony & the Knicks...
Bird Rights enabled the Knicks offer a two year deal with player option...
$18 M first year
$19.35 M second year
$20.8 M player option
The additional advantage for the Anthony camp would be having the ability three times before the end of the second year to invoke a trade out of New York... This works well for New York as well as it makes easier to find a trade partner, Melo would select 3 possible destinations for the Knicks to explore trade options and it will get done because it is part of this written underlinings of his contract...
I doubt something like this would be presented as it gives all the power to the player and the league would shy against that happening and also doubt the Knicks' brass has any creative juice to write or present this to Carmelo Anthony in their meetings during free agency trying to lure him back to New York...
Bird Rights enabled the Knicks offer a two year deal with player option...
$18 M first year
$19.35 M second year
$20.8 M player option
The additional advantage for the Anthony camp would be having the ability three times before the end of the second year to invoke a trade out of New York... This works well for New York as well as it makes easier to find a trade partner, Melo would select 3 possible destinations for the Knicks to explore trade options and it will get done because it is part of this written underlinings of his contract...
I doubt something like this would be presented as it gives all the power to the player and the league would shy against that happening and also doubt the Knicks' brass has any creative juice to write or present this to Carmelo Anthony in their meetings during free agency trying to lure him back to New York...
There's no reason to ask for a new body once u wipe out all the cancer in the body.
Puppet-Woodson's coaching-staff, ISO-Melo, JR.smith, Felton.