Tilman: I was surprised by the decision to dump Melo

No kidding. I've yet to hear him discuss anything about the book's contents or what makes it worth reading. I've heard the inspiring tale of how the book was named, which has the effect of making me not want to read it. (In fairness, that's likely Tilman's one and only contribution to the book.) And I've heard plenty about the Rockets, which, also to be fair, he has every right to do. And given the Rocket's success over the last few seasons, and that owning a professional sports team is kind of interesting, it's not like it's unexpected or out of the ordinary. But yeah, he's doing a pretty lousy job promoting his book. Himself on the other hand...

 

HEY NOW. I bought the commemorative video and the replica ring.

 

Meanwhile, the free agency of Carmelo Anthony continues, with NBA teams and even USA Basketball passing on bringing in the 10-time All-Star this summer. The Athletic’s NBA Inside Pass did a breakdown of Anthony’s situation in late July, and not much has changed beyond external hope and speculation.

Several of the clear fits, such as the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks, have full rosters. Anthony is awaiting the call, and one union that appeared to have legs was with the Brooklyn Nets. Brooklyn added two stars and champions in Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving this offseason, so the electricity around the franchise is palpable.

After losing Wilson Chandler to a 25-game suspension, Anthony and players such as Dante Cunningham, Lance Thomas and Luol Deng emerged as viable options to sign. There’s been a sense around the Nets that players are hopeful to bring in Anthony, but the trust belongs with the front office.

However, the Nets are very unlikely to sign Anthony as of now, league sources told The Athletic.

It appears more likely that the team will decide to sign players it has worked out over the past few weeks, such as Thomas and former Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Clippers forward CJ Williams, sources said. The Nets have two roster spots left.

Plus, the Nets have a full roster at 15 players. They would need to release a player on a guaranteed contract to create roster space. Brooklyn is planning as of now to keep Chandler on the roster through his 25-game suspension, league sources said, which would allow the team to recoup over $580,000 in unpaid salary and sign a player with a 16th roster spot for the final 20 games of his suspension. If the Nets decide to keep said player past those 20 games, they could then release Chandler to open a roster spot.

But Chandler was signed to play a solid two-way, 4-man role — not replace Durant, because no one can truly do that — and team executives believe he would likely be immediately picked up by an NBA team if released later in the season.

The Nets have high hopes going into the season, following a tremendous summer of creativity and production for Sean Marks and his front office, and validation of coach Kenny Atkinson’s culture.

 

Well, I got Rick Rolled. I looked up gus Fring and he's a fictional character on Breaking Bad tv show.

My first search auto corrected to this and I ended up with Chandler Parson images, Guy Fringe(it's a haircut!).

https://www.google.com/search?q=guy...OjkAhVSGDQIHZPoBYMQ_AUIESgB&biw=1920&bih=1058

 

Blackballed because all the coaches hates him and are all out to get him. Mike D, George Karl, Bzdirereadfksfdksdfdsd. They are going to make sure Melo never works in the NBA again.

WHO ME??????

 

If the Rockets felt this way, then why bring him here? THIS is the shady stuff that leads to free agents not wanting to come here

 

I ALREADY did. Do your research

 

You said it. It was shady stuff to get Melo blacklisted. He did everything he was asked but got blamed for The bad start

Shady stuff worked and now Melo is unemployed

 

Anyone with a pair of eyes saw Melo couldn't play switch d or any d for that matter. We carved him up the last yes at he was at okc

 

They knew that . Signed him to show the world he doesn't belong in the NBA

 

they did it to give him an opportunity. too bad he f'd that up and completely sucked. while also throwing the rest of his own career down the drain by being that bad

 

Yeah and Morey can say that Melo and his camp were upstanding, etc.

There was a reason that it all happened so quickly and it wasn't simply because Melo sucked.

Professionalism matters.

 

not even sure why we have people still crying about this. it just didn't work. he didn't fit and all the meloof's got a view first hand. all the playing with harden and co will automatically make him better, the mda system is perfect, the he just has to shoot 3s logics went to garbage. the rockets moved on a long time ago.

 

Y wud they be mean??

Spoiler

 

He’s making himself look like a jackass, calling out the guy who almost led us to a championship while he counted his money in the corner

 

No, they signed up to see if he could be a scoring boost and somewhat help out on the wing in supplemental areas. Turns out the team had to bend over backwards to get him the ball for him to shoot a very low percentage. He couldn't or wouldn't help defensively nor create anything other than for himself offensively.

 

so opportunity, cool

 

Bro. Better add /sarcasm cuz internet be thinking u is for serious. Fo sure.