1. If Melo is about winning, he takes a pay cut and comes in the offseason.
2. A departure seems unfit with a winning record.
3. If Melo is about money and instant gratification, he looks to be traded.
4. Dividing this team is not about his unwillingness to be the center of a media storm. It's about us. He is not a part of that collective noun.
5. With an almost certain 1st round departure it will be easier to leave Denver in the post season - money aside.
6. Denver are losing a lot of players at season's end, if he leaves then, the focus will be less on him, and more on the bungles and missed chances of former management.
Be patient boys........ We'll reap the benefits within less than a year. That's a 7th of the amount of time we spent suffering before this season.
1. Carmelo doesn't feel like risking it and ends up signing the extension to stay in DEN.
2. Somebody steps up and offers something more come July (Chi decides to part with Noah, Lakers with Bynum, Nets... whatever). Given some good clubs another post season to assess whether they want to keep certain assets moving fwd, or not.
3. Somebody like DAL swoops in a rents Carmelo at the last second, and Carmelo ends up signing extension with that team.
4. New CBA includes some sort of franchise tag and now Carmelo is stuck for another season.
5. Carmelo is a free agent, but somebody else comes in and sweeps him off his feet.
6. Walsh fails to deliver, Dolan doesn't pick up his option, brings I-Thomas back to go get Carmelo.
7. DEN wont sign-&-trade Anthony to NY so he loses millions and is sort of ticked off.
There are many reasons why we should do this trade. There's only 1 ball and D'antoni plays 7-9 players anyway. Build team around Stoudemire & Anthony. Knicks have the most feared offensive SF/PF combo in the league.
Remember, the Nuggets were 17-65 the year before Carmelo arrived. They went 43-39 his rooke year and made the playoffs (in the Western Confernce nonetheless). In his 3rd year, playing with Stoudemire and Felton... Gallo is barely the 3rd option on a team that is on pace to win 41 games.
To pass on Carmelo b/c we want to keep Gallinari, Chandler, Fields, Mozgov? FOOLISH. Knicks have Williams to knock down 3s. They'll keep one or two of the 4 kids. They'll have Turiaf and a 1st round pick. Billups. They'll be able to add pieces the next 2 offseasons.
Knicks have to get Carmelo, Paul or Deron. The moment one becomes available... GO GET HIM. Fields is nice. We can draft another in June. You can't just go find a Carmelo.