As Carmelo Anthony leans toward leaving New York, Chicago and Houston emerge as frontrunners

If you are a Rockets fan, you want Gasol to go to Chicago because that takes them out of the Love and Melo hunt.

 

Not likely. Perhaps by the end of the weekend (or early next week).

 

And the lesser, not as used phrase: "Happy man, Happy plan." :grin:

 

It also keeps him (Pau) away from other West conf teams like the Thunder. W

 

Gasol and Melo to the Rockets..

 

He met with the Lakers brass today for about 2.5hrs including a top level executive from Time Warner. His supposed to meet with Kobe tonight once he arrives from europe.

Another bit of info surfaced that Melo wanted to pitch Pau into joining the Knicks, but they can only offer $3.2mill when he wants closer to $10mill. Some analysts feel like this has a good chance of happening because of PJax, Fisher and Calderon.

 

i think the correct phrase is happy hand, happy man

 

Lol if you were Woj this thread would go nutz.

 

Need a Codman bat call

 

Pau Gasol? Melo wants Pau Gasol? Pau? Gasol?! What year is it?

Maybe Melo is willing to wait for Phil to clean up the mess in NYC for a couple of years until they have the assets/cap space to team him up with LeBron.

 

In other words LaLa wears the pants?

 

Doubt they can even offer that, aren't they going to be over the apron?

 

Just go listen to Jay Z... It will be just as insightful.

 

as the saying goes: "Happy wife, happy life..."

 

Melo wants any excuse to stay in NY.

 

NY has too little money for Pau. But the rockets should look at the plan b.

 

Wouldn't it make more sense to compare last season Win Shares (WS) for all teams courting Carmelo Anthony? I compiled the WS data for the top five players on each team in pursuit of Carmelo Anthony, so you can decide, based on WS data from last season, which is the better fit for Melo: Bulls, Heat, Lakers, or Rockets? I also included the WS data for the Knicks, but only to demonstrate Melo's value to his team. Everyone pales in comparison to Kevin Durant though, whose Combined Win Share (offense + defense; OWS + DWS) is an NBA best 19.2 games.

Win Shares (WS); 2013-2014:; top five WS players on each team arranged in descending order

Los Angeles Clippers: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAC/2014.html#all_advanced
Chris Paul = 12.2
Bake Griffin = 12.2
Deandre Jordan = 11.1
Darren Collison = 5.9
Jamal Crawford = 5.3
Chicago Bulls: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CHI/2014.html#all_advanced
Joakin Noah = 11.2
Jimmy Butler = 7.1
Mike Dunleavy = 6.5
D.J. Augustin = 6.4
Taj Gibson = 5.7
Miami Heat: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/MIA/2014.html#all_advanced
LeBron James = 15.9
Chris Bosh = 8.0
Chris Andersen = 6.0
Dwayne Wade = 5.5
Mario Chalmers = 4.8
Houston Rockets: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2014.html#all_advanced
James Harden = 12.8
Dwight Howard = 8.0
Chandler Parsons = 7.6
Terrence Jones = 7.3
Jeremy Lin = 4.4
Los Angeles Lakers: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/LAL/2014.html#all_advanced
Jodie Meeks = 4.5
Jordan Hill = 4.4
Pau Gasol = 3.0
Nick Young = 2.5
Ryan Kelly = 2.2
New York Knicks: http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NYK/2014.html#all_advanced
Carmelo Anthony = 10.7
Tyson Chandler = 4.9
Amare Stoudemire = 3.8
JR Smith = 3.7
Pablo Prigioni = 3.4

 

Only after next season their superstar player will be a free agent.

 

I just can't see how an aging Gasol with Calderon and whoever in NY is better than Houston!

To me this is just a pretext to stay in NY

 

I'd rather get Chauncy Billups, Camby and Ron Artest back and wait for Kevin Durant next year. Or trade Lin+Canaan+TJones for Love and Rubio. I think Melo stays in NY or goes to LA.

Rockets:
Rubio/Beverly
Harden
Parsons
Love
Howard

Perfect offense team. We can only dream of Rubio running the complete form of the Rockets to perfection. He doesnt need to score.