Nets Trying To Get Billups And RIP Along With Anthony

[HeyJoe]

Couple of things:

Melo waited 7 years for this?? Bron, Wade and Bosh all winning on South Beach, and he agrees to become the face of the rebuilding NJ Nets? A rebuilding NJN that will have no picks or players left i might add.

Who actually believes he wants to play with Rip?? If thats the case, why doesn't Denver just trade for Rip?

that's what i'm not gettign too

i really don't think brook is that much better than nene if at all

i think melo's just tired of denver

[Jordan45822]

Denver is either asking to be Toronto again (Bosh situation) or they really believe they can get a better deal than they have now (they can't if this deals falls apart Anthony's value goes down the drain)

[heatwillbeback]

Couple of things:

Melo waited 7 years for this?? Bron, Wade and Bosh all winning on South Beach, and he agrees to become the face of the rebuilding NJ Nets? A rebuilding NJN that will have no picks or players left i might add.

Who actually believes he wants to play with Rip?? If thats the case, why doesn't Denver just trade for Rip?

it would be a playoff team with Chauncey, Melo, RIP, and Lopez. Not a very good one I think, but about the same position Denver is in now.

I think Knicks underestimated the importance of the extension before the new CBA complicates and changes things. They banked on him really wanting to go to the Knicks as a way to lowball Denver, and it looks like it may backfire.

[TDevilsG]

what is Melo thinking... New Jersey?!? This is an awful trade. Rip may still have something in the tank, but he's getting old and Billups doesn't even want to be there.

He's thinking a championship in three-five years, Per Prokhorov, under a 16 billion dollar Russian owner and a brand new, 1 billion dollar arena called the Barclays Center. In his hometown. Done deal.

[droponov]

Billups won't really care for a buyout. In fact, I bet Billups would love to play the last year of his contract for the Nets without being bought out.

Even though his own agent said that he would seek a buyout?

It's just posturing. His agent priority will be to find a way of Billups not being fired in the first 5 days after the end of the season (when his last year becomes fully guaranteed). His best chance is a trade to the Nets.

[ikidunot]

Am I the only one who is seeing a CP3 trade coming next(if this one goes though)? Lopez for CP3, Heck they might throw in Humphries. I mean Melo already voice his displeasure at the Nets PG situation.

And maybe I'm getting ahead of myself(I tend to do that), But since Varejao is out for the season, The Cavs could really use PETRO. I mean no one else wants him. Heck if not the Cavs try the Magic they are looking for a backup C.

Let this be the biggest blockbuster trade ever!!

Go big or Go home!! aka Russia.

[NBA Fan 1234]

Billups won't really care for a buyout. In fact, I bet Billups would love to play the last year of his contract for the Nets without being bought out.

Even though his own agent said that he would seek a buyout?

His agent is beyond stupid if he seeks a buyout for 3.7 million, because it would mean that he (the agent) will have to take less money from a contract, unless he believes that Billups can get a muliyear/ mulimillion dollar contract at age 35 coming off a piss poor year.

He wants to play for a championship contender...he wants the ability to make his own decisions and decide where he will play.

I really do not think it's a stretch by any means that he gets a buyout and then decides to sign with a contending team (or go back to Denver where his family is from and where they are currently residing)...especially considering his career is near its end.

[Jose_Matador]

what is Melo thinking... New Jersey?!? This is an awful trade. Rip may still have something in the tank, but he's getting old and Billups doesn't even want to be there.

He's thinking a championship in three-five years under a 16 billion dollar Russian owner and a brand new, 1 billion dollar arena called the Barclays Center. In his hometown. Done deal.

is that what you think ? because to me it seems like he just wants to get his full extension pre-collective bargaining agreement, but not in Denver.

[TDevilsG]

what is Melo thinking... New Jersey?!? This is an awful trade. Rip may still have something in the tank, but he's getting old and Billups doesn't even want to be there.

He's thinking a championship in three-five years under a 16 billion dollar Russian owner and a brand new, 1 billion dollar arena called the Barclays Center. In his hometown. Done deal.

is that what you think ? because to me it seems like he just wants to get his full extension pre-collective bargaining agreement, but not in Denver.

Sure. But aren't the results going to be the same regardless for both parties involved? Melo gets his money, Prokhorov flexes his billion dollar muscles in building a championship team and a global franchise.

[HeyJoe]

what is Melo thinking... New Jersey?!? This is an awful trade. Rip may still have something in the tank, but he's getting old and Billups doesn't even want to be there.

He's thinking a championship in three-five years under a 16 billion dollar Russian owner and a brand new, 1 billion dollar arena called the Barclays Center. In his hometown. Done deal.

hmm taht actually makes sense

NJN's gonna have enough assets/money to get a lot of talent down the road if chaunce and rip don't work out for them

[Jetset]

Couple of things:

Melo waited 7 years for this?? Bron, Wade and Bosh all winning on South Beach, and he agrees to become the face of the rebuilding NJ Nets? A rebuilding NJN that will have no picks or players left i might add.

Who actually believes he wants to play with Rip?? If thats the case, why doesn't Denver just trade for Rip?

Not necessarily Melo waited for this, but this is the only option he's got. Melo doesn't want to leave 60 mil on the table thats just too much money to leave idc how rich you are, and NYK doesn't have the trade pieces to satisfy Denver. So looks like he'll have to settle for the piss in the corner aka. The Nets

[droponov]

His agent is beyond stupid if he seeks a buyout for 3.7 million, because it would mean that he (the agent) will have to take less money from a contract, unless he believes that Billups can get a muliyear/ mulimillion dollar contract at age 35 coming off a piss poor year.

He wants to play for a championship contender...he wants the ability to make his own decisions and decide where he will play.

I really do not think it's a stretch by any means that he gets a buyout and then decides to sign with a contending team (or go back to Denver where his family is from and where they are currently residing)...especially considering his career is near its end.

You also thought Carmelo wouldn't be afraid of losing out on the extension, remember? I told you he wouldn't and that the Knicks were losing their window of opportunity to get a deal done. Believe me: no way Billups throws away the opportunity to make $15 millions next year. It's not even a remote possibility - contenders and hometown be damned.

[Jose_Matador]

Sure. But aren't the results going to be the same regardless for both parties involved? Melo gets his money, Prokhorov flexes his billion dollar muscles in building a championship team and a global franchise.

I guess so lol.

[Mef]

Am I the only one who is seeing a CP3 trade coming next(if this one goes though)? Lopez for CP3, Heck they might throw in Humphries. I mean Melo already voice his displeasure at the Nets PG situation.

I can see a trade next season with Billups(expiring) and Lopez going to NO for Paul(wants to leave) and Okafor (horrible contract).

[TDevilsG]

Sure. But aren't the results going to be the same regardless for both parties involved? Melo gets his money, Prokhorov flexes his billion dollar muscles in building a championship team and a global franchise.

I guess so lol.

What part do you guess? Carmelo wins big in this deal. He's getting a ton of money, pre-bargaining agreement, in order to sign with a team that's literally changing almost half of its roster in the course of one trade.

[nykinoz]

No way NJ makes the play-off this year, they are 6 games back already from 8th, and would have zero bench, lol

[food4thought]

Nets just keep looking like fools, second time the Nuggets killed the deal.

According to Chris Mannix, both Billups and Melo were supposed to sit tonight as deal was going to happen, but Nuggets played both of them.

Why not just take the offer, nobody else seems to be bidding for Melo at this point with the way Nuggets are negotiating.

[NBA Fan 1234]

His agent is beyond stupid if he seeks a buyout for 3.7 million, because it would mean that he (the agent) will have to take less money from a contract, unless he believes that Billups can get a muliyear/ mulimillion dollar contract at age 35 coming off a piss poor year.

He wants to play for a championship contender...he wants the ability to make his own decisions and decide where he will play.

I really do not think it's a stretch by any means that he gets a buyout and then decides to sign with a contending team (or go back to Denver where his family is from and where they are currently residing)...especially considering his career is near its end.

You also thought Carmelo wouldn't be afraid of losing out on the extension, remember? I told you he wouldn't and that the Knicks were losing their window of opportunity to get a deal done. Believe me: no way Billups throws away the opportunity to make $15 millions next year. It's not even a remote possibility - contenders and hometown be damned.

The deal is not done yet...there have been reported done deals before (with Melo) that have not gone through.

Why wouldn't Melo be grandfathered into the new CBA? Does everyone really think that Stern would let players that had max contracts end a year earlier get a contract that another max contract player (Melo - #s wise at least) would not be able to get? There was an article on Realgm a few months ago that said players have been grandfathered in to new CBAs in the NBA in the past. He's going to get his money either way IMO...

http://www.realgm.com/src_feature_piece ... _anywhere/



On Billups. His career is winding down...he has made a crap load of money throughout his career. I know that nobody here would turn down that much money, but we are not in his position. He wants another championship...again, I don't see why people think that this is out of the question.

[NBA Fan 1234]

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