Knicker23 wrote:^ Melo ain't a bitch. If Denver is going to steal 20 mill from him and try to force him to go where THEY want or let him suffer the consequences, cutting off their nose to spite their face... specifically stopping him from getting his money and going wwhere he wants to go, knowing Denver could get a good deal from us - I don't see him giving in to that... If he isn't as high on the Knicks and low on the Nets as we think, maybe..... but if it's Denver giving him that ultimatum he's gota tell them to screw off and make them blink or allow them to suffer the consequences..
He'd be a lot happier forcing his way to where he'll be the happiest and what he wants to do than the few extra million he'll get by being handled by his team.
Well they can't steal 20 mil from him AND force him to go NJ. If he's not gonna sign the extension with NJ, they're not gonna do the deal, so denver would have to deal with the Knicks (where he'd obviously get everything he wants) or lose him for nothing, and as inept as the denver FO is, I don't think they're that stupid.
You would like to think overall happiness is what anyone would choose, but that's easy to say when 65 mil isn't staring you in the face. Nobody knows what's most important to him, whether that's money or playing for us. Obviously he'd want both, but when it's crunch time, we'll see what he chooses. Plus you know his agents are all in his ear about getting this extension and using fear of the next CBA to tell him to play along with Denver.
