[TONYDABOSS77Participant]

 

 

 

I’ve been watching the Knicks lately. As we all knw, they look sad. I’m a fan of them blowing it up. Idk whether or not anyone’s brought it up, but why wouldn’t they trade Melo for a top 3 pick? It looks like they’re gonna be in the mix for a top 3 pick on their own so why not go for another one in a stacked class like this one? They may be able to get another asset along with the pick for Melo too. He’s got 4 more yrs on his deal after this season too. 

 

I’m thinking it’s a good move, especially if the Lakers are the team you’re trading too. They’re desperate for another star guy & Melo’s proven & they were throwing max money at him this summer too. It does three things in my opinion: 1) gets you two top flight talents on rookie deals. 2) frees up alotta cap room. 3) takes the Lakers out of the conversation for a top free agent for atleast this summer. The Knicks & Lakers have been thought of as premier spots for guys so why not eliminate the competition. 

 

If you have 2 top 3 picks, you could draft either Okafor/Russell or Towns/Russell or Okafor/Mudiay or whatever you want. I like Okafor & he looks like Al Jefferson, but I need my 1st pick at center to be able to do 2 things well. Rather that’s defense & rebounding, scoring & rebounding, scoring & defense, but he’s gotta do two of those three things. I’m curious about whether or not Russell & Mudiay can play in the same backcourt together. I think it’s a good fit. Both are more than capable of facilitating an offense. Since Mudiay’s really athletic he could match up with the point guards & Russell could guard two’s since there’s only really 3 sg’s (Harden, Beal, Klay) that can hurt him. Russell’s also a really good shooter so it’s not like it’d be poor spacing. I think if you pair them together, in 3 yrs you could have the best backcourt in the NBA. Those guys could avg 20-4-4 each or close to it. 

 

And Idk exactly how much cap space they’d have, but I’d wanna see them make runs at these guys in no order:

 

1) Mark Gasol

2) Lamarcus Aldridge

3) Greg Monroe 

4) Al Jefferson

5) Hibbert

6) David West

7) Asik

8) Tobias Harris

9) Wes Matthews

10) Lopez twins

11) Gerald Green

12) Danny Green

13) Brandon Wright

14) Wilson Chandler

15) Paul Pierce (if he comes back)

16) Tyson Chandler

 

These are just based off of fit. Realistically, out of this group, I see them getting: Gasol, Rob Lopez/Greg Monroe, one of the Greens, Wright & maybe Tyson Chandler. Doubt Portland lets both Matthews & Aldridge go & Orlando probably matches whatever deal Harris gets offered.

 

Now you can build around Mudiay, Russell & Gasol as your big three.

 

 

 

[Magic JordanParticipant]

 I don’t think Melo could fetch a top 3 pick at this time, as most of the times teams with a top 3 pick arent looking for a player at Melos stage of his career.

They should keep Melo, hope for lucky ping pong balls and then try to add a nice free agent or two to Melo, a top 3 pick and then go from there. 

All I do know is I breathed a sigh of relief when it was for sure that the Lakers weren’t getting Melo.  I think any team who isn’t contending would feel the same way. 

 

 

[Magic JordanParticipant]

 I don’t think Melo could fetch a top 3 pick at this time, as most of the times teams with a top 3 pick arent looking for a player at Melos stage of his career.

They should keep Melo, hope for lucky ping pong balls and then try to add a nice free agent or two to Melo, a top 3 pick and then go from there. 

All I do know is I breathed a sigh of relief when it was for sure that the Lakers weren’t getting Melo.  I think any team who isn’t contending would feel the same way. 

 

 

[TONYDABOSS77Participant]

True, I was thinking they’d be desperate for a proven All-NBA guy. Even if there was a team like Orlando or Utah that the pick, I was thinking they’d surely trade their pick for Melo. 

[TONYDABOSS77Participant]

True, I was thinking they’d be desperate for a proven All-NBA guy. Even if there was a team like Orlando or Utah that the pick, I was thinking they’d surely trade their pick for Melo. 

[juves4783Participant]

i’m pretty sure melo has a no-trade clause in his contract.  i don’t think he’d waive that for any of the teams in the lotto except maybe l.a. since that’s a big market area and the lakers have a lot of cap room to makes some moves.

 

 

[juves4783Participant]

i’m pretty sure melo has a no-trade clause in his contract.  i don’t think he’d waive that for any of the teams in the lotto except maybe l.a. since that’s a big market area and the lakers have a lot of cap room to makes some moves.

 

 

[tuck243Participant]

A Top 3 pick… An All-Star on the roster…  And enough cap room to sign close to 2 max guys this off season. 

For the record, they can’t trade Melo without him agreeing to the deal.   So, only how Melo gets traded is if they send him to an already built team that’s missing a star player of his caliber.   That’s it…

 

[tuck243Participant]

A Top 3 pick… An All-Star on the roster…  And enough cap room to sign close to 2 max guys this off season. 

For the record, they can’t trade Melo without him agreeing to the deal.   So, only how Melo gets traded is if they send him to an already built team that’s missing a star player of his caliber.   That’s it…

 

[sitlbitoParticipant]

just a question for Knicks fans: Didn’t Melo have his best season in 2012-13? He was the best scorer in the nba that year,by playing power forward,with Tyson Chandler. Which leads to my questions about the Okafor pick. I think Melo needs to play nextto a rim proctector who’s not gonna demand the ball on offense. By the way he’s playing SF ths year,I don’t think that’s where he’ll do most of his damages,even more in his 30s.

[sitlbitoParticipant]

just a question for Knicks fans: Didn’t Melo have his best season in 2012-13? He was the best scorer in the nba that year,by playing power forward,with Tyson Chandler. Which leads to my questions about the Okafor pick. I think Melo needs to play nextto a rim proctector who’s not gonna demand the ball on offense. By the way he’s playing SF ths year,I don’t think that’s where he’ll do most of his damages,even more in his 30s.

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