Discord in the big Apple: Carmelo Anthony and the knicks

What does this say?

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Story posting now with @chrisbhaynes: ESPN sources say Knicks HAVE tried to engage Cleveland in Melo-for-Love trade talks but were rebuffed

 

LOL,

Kevin Love is way more valuable than Melo.

 

By "rebuffed", do they mean "laughed at hysterically for 5 minutes, and then hung up on"?? Because that's the only suitable reaction for that stupid of an offer.

 

So Phil Jackson is working very hard to trade Melo.

 

The Rockets could pounce if Boston doesn't offer tangible assets.....

The biggest issue would be convincing D'Antoni it could work. Melo at the 4 would be interesting.

 

No thanks he had his chance to come here and didn't

 

Btw, to get him we should trade Anderson or how many players? Probably something like Dekker, Ariza, 1st rounder, Brewer, KJ, Ennis...no thanks.

And i don't see Ainge trading for Melo at this point, i think he's just waiting for Butler or Hayward, and rightfully so.

Lol at the Clippers, unless they send Griffin in NY they have literally not even a mediocre asset to trade.

 

I would have done it last year. This year I would be very very cautious

 

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...clippers-discussing-trade-for carmelo-anthony

 

"The Knicks have let the Clippers know they are open to trading Carmelo Anthony to Los Angeles without getting back either Chris Paul, Blake Griffin or DeAndre Jordan, the New York Daily News reported Thursday."

So they asked for Love two days ago but they're open to trade him to the Clippers...for what though? Austin Rivers, Speights and their 2019 2nd rounder? Lol

 

Given his contract, teams will either have to (1) give up some nice players or (2) give back some dead weight to the Knicks.

If it's #1, they'll have to sell very hard that Melo will push that team over the hump. If it's #2, the Knicks might as well just keep him.

 

Knicks willing to trade Melo for a couple of bags of doritos and a cherry coke. Lol

Seriously, the guy has talent, but is a me-me type of player, certified chemistry killer.
No wonder they are giving him away.

 

According to a person with knowledge of the situation, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, the Clippers have a strong interest in adding Anthony so long as they don’t have to give up one of their Big Three of Paul, Griffin or DeAndre Jordan. Considering they have made this clear to the Knicks, the illuminating part is that the conversation didn’t die right there.

With the Knicks known to think very favorably of 24-year-old Clippers guard Austin Rivers (career-high 11.9 points per game this season), and with various combinations of trade scenarios known to include other players like veteran shooting guard J.J. Redick (who will be a free agent this summer) and super sixth man Jamal Crawford (who signed a three-year, $42 million deal last summer), it seems clear that the Knicks’ interest level in parting ways with Anthony is growing by the day.

Anthony, who is owed $26.2 million next season and can opt out of his deal two summers from now, has a no-trade clause and is known to have a very short list of teams for which he would be willing to waive it.

Yet from Anthony to James, Wade and Paul, there is a common thread that is clearly driving their words and actions at the moment. This is about Father Time, with all of them aware that he waits for no man and all of them hell-bent on winning as much as possible before he finally catches up and ends their careers.

On Wednesday night, when Paul and James had one of those long phone conversations in which they connect like few others can, they shared a version of that truth.

“He’s not (losing his mind),” Paul said of James, who has publicly pressured the Cavs to add a playmaker on several occasions while highlighting missed opportunities from their past. “I know he’s not. I talked to him for a long time last night. He’s not losing (his mind). It’s a long season.

“He’s just trying to win, too, you know what I mean? It’s all in trying to win. Think about it. People, think in the big picture – four out of seven. Do you have enough power to beat who you need to beat four out of seven times?”

As Paul sees it, the Clippers do. As for his favorite friends? Confidence is fleeting.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...s-paul-blake-griffin-deandre-jordan/97105262/

 

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Lmao...i don't know if i should laugh more at the Clippers or at the Knicks...

 

can he be amnestied?

 

I would like to laugh in general.

 

I wonder if Austin Rivers was given that inflated contact specifically so he could be traded for a star. No one else would pay him half of what he's making.

 

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2017/01/27...-trade/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter