johnnywishbone wrote:
Reading is fundamental. It's a period because no matter what Melo says he can't tell Denver where to trade him. PERIOD. He does not have the choice. They do. And on top of that he has no guarantee going into this off season how things are going to turn out. And if you don't think his agent isn't putting copious amounts of pressure on him to sign that extension then you are blinded by your desire to see Melo in a Knicks uni. PERIOD.
How many 65 million dollar contracts have you turned down? That money is eating at him night and day. Don't kid yourself.[/quote]
But Melo can determine where he spends the next 5 years of his career. Period. Denver has no control over that. Period. If Denver wants a big trade package back for their franchise player it has to be somewhere he agrees to go. Period.
As far as turning down a $65 million dollar contract - he's been turning it down for a year now. If he were terrified of a career-ending injury in the next 3 months he would have signed the extension before the season began.
It's all speculation. We don't know who will blink first. We don't know if Denver is willing to deal with the Knicks. We don't know if Melo is willing to go to free agency. We don't know whether Melo is willing to play for the Nets. We don't know whether Melo is overly worried about the CBA. But keep punctuating your opinions with PERIODS.[/quote]
Fact: Carmelo wants NY.
Fact: NY wants Melo.
Fact: Carmelo is not playing for NY.
Therefore, Denver is not interested in doing a deal with NY. So again, who has the leverage? It's time to move on people. Maybe, Carmelo goes full Kamikaze and lasts until free agency. But I doubt it.
And the point of the conversation was that there is nothing Donnie can really do but wait. PERIOD.[/quote]
I love this does anyone remember when a certain player refused to report to Toronto in a trade and forced his way to another team by not showing up to report to the raptors. I believe it was with the Mighty mouse Stoudlemier (the pg) trade. I need to look that up. A player can refuse to report and in this case the raptors just moved him on to another team, not saying it will be done here but this happened before.
here we go
With Thomas gone, Stoudamire immediately sought a trade.[14] On 13 February 1998, he was shipped to the Portland Trail Blazers along with Walt Williams and Carlos Rogers for Kenny Anderson, Alvin Williams, Gary Trent, two first-round draft choices, a second-round draft choice and cash.[12] Anderson refused to report to Toronto and was traded to the Celtics with Žan Tabak and Popeye Jones for Chauncey Billups, Dee Brown, Roy Rogers and John Thomas.
Quote from ESPN’s Bill Simmons posted on Twitter “28 FT’s to 5. I don’t watch rigged NBA games, I’m switching to hockey”
