Carmelo Anthony expecting Knicks to resume trade talks, sources say

I never understand why people doubt that the Knicks will drag this along because it won't benefit them.... it's the Knicks, they almost never make decisions that benefits themselves.


This will drag on.


There's 2 options where Melo ends up a Rocket, either we give them a better trade scenario or he forces himself out of there the hard way.


Waiting for the Knicks to bite is no longer an option.

 

I watched the press conference. From the tone, it sounds like they're moving him. The stuff about him being there next year was very half-hearted. I imagine they may take it late into the summer, however.

 

We're standing pretty close to Mexico. I like our chances.

 

Yeah totally no deadline...

 

Tuesday is when they'll start to get to work

 

Carmelo needs to tell Perry and Mills that if they decide to keep him, he is going to opt IN on his contract next year. They'll be on the hook for $53M over the next two seasons.

 

They have trades they could make, they could buy him out....but they are the Knicks, so they'll do the absolute most embarrassing thing and try to force him to accept a trade to a scrub team or stay on their scrub team.

If they are hoping to change their image and change the culture of the Knicks, they can't keep acting like this. A competent organization would have already moved on from Melo by finding a trade that works......then you have the Knicks.

If this were the Rockets, and Harden was asking to leave, Morey would have already moved him.

 

I cant stand this man... I can't even imagine how Knicks fans feel.

 

Oh no! He's gonna destroy the chemistry of the 30-win Knicks!
Oh no! Free agents will not go there!
Irreparable harm!



Breaking news: The Knicks are a **** show with or without Carmelo there. They will continue to be as long as James Dolan owns the team.

Free agents aren't exactly lining up to play there now or really in recent memory. Amar'e Stoudemire, what, 7 years ago?

 

How tough is it to punch up a number? Should have it in your contacts anyway: Either under M for Melo Trade or T for Trade Melo.

 

If Harden were asking to be moved to just one (or two) teams and those teams were offering crap, Morey would have already moved him? I disagree.

 

We aren't going to give them a better trade offer. We don't have anything to offer them that they want and that makes sense for us to give up.

I know everyone is bashing the Knicks, and I agree they were unprofessional in all of this, but honestly I don't blame them for saying "Whoa, wait a minute, we don't want to trade Melo for what amounts to crap picks and bad contracts."

 

Look at it from a prospective player's perspective. I'm sooooooo certain talented/coveted players will be lining up to play for Knicks.

 

Seriously, lol at anyone who thinks Morey would agree to trade Harden to say the Cavs for a 2020 first round pick and say Iman Shumpert signed at 3 for 20.

 

I don't understand how a team can completely trash a player under contract, expect the employee to cooperate, and then get value in a trade. If I'm Melo, I would try to file a grievance with the league office. I hope he kept a trail of all the trash talking the Knicks did.

 

He'd have found a trade that would work no matter what the 2 teams were offering. Then again, it's a different situation given that the Rockets wouldn't have run down Harden's trade value like the Knicks did to Melo. Honestly the Knicks only have themselves to blame.

 

Trading Melo to Houston won't make players MORE likely to play for the Knicks. Nobody will choose to play for the Knicks until they get the culture corrected and start winning, but trading Melo for mediocre players on bad contracts will only make that worse, not better.

 

They won't. This is posturing.

 

The difference here is that Melo's trade value is garbage because the Knicks are the ones who trashed it. Like I said, Melo HAS to step in and say, "OK, you want me to stay?? Fine. I'm opting in, and making sure you pay me every single dime you owe me." I have a feeling the Knicks will get on the phone with Morey real quick.

 

Knicks will almost certainly be first in line for Covfefe next summer.