It is really difficult to evaluate the Melo trade. Although he helped us make the playoffs 3 years in a row I was never a big fan of how we acquired him. I've always been one to believe that teams shouldn't make trades out of fear that the player they're targeting is going to be traded to another team. During the Walsh/Grunwald era the Knicks were so worried about what the Nets were doing that they set their franchise back for another decade through a series of desperation moves. I really hope that Dolan and the Knicks organization has learned from their past mistakes and don't trade away all of their current assets for a quick fix the way that they did years ago.
