shmeakone wrote:Marty McFly wrote:shmeakone wrote:Knicks Trade:
Carmelo Anthony
Iman Shumpert
Cavaliers Trade:
Tristan Thompson
Dion Waiters
Anthony Bennett
Anderson Varejao
Cavs' 2014 1st Round Pick
Knicks then waive Aldrich & Chris Smith to make room for everyone.
that would be quite a haul.
If I was Mills I'd be on the phone with Cleveland. They're desperate, they're not content with Waiters & Bennett. IDK if we'd be able to pry Thompson from them, but its possible. This franchise has no balls to trade Melo though.
there's that thing about convincing melo to extend there too.
i think if the knicks are to trade melo, they should do their best to get their pick back from den/orl, cause once melo is gone, it's going to get real bad.
said it in a previous page but basically (first I'd preface this by saying i don't know how good turk and nelso still are, or how good that cat fornier is)
orl trades: knicks/nugs 2014 first round pick
orl gets: melo
knicks trade:melo, shumpert
knicks gets: knicks/nugs 2014 first round pick, turk, nelson, fornier
denver gets: iman shumpert
denver trades: back the right to swap picks between theirs and the knicks seeing as both teams suck, they can essentially get shumpert for free. it's a loss the knicks should be willing to take, particularly, if they made such a trade, they'd be in position on back to back years to draft really high on the draft, and thus rebuild pretty quickly after all of this madness.
on top of that, by 2015, it's possible that they could end up with 2 blue chippers (say, oh i don't know, parker, and the following year embiid)

as well as a ton of cap space to sign just about any free agent(kevin love) they want.
of course, this would on be contingent on melo accepting an extension (
which i believe he would, it's olr, they've got oladipo, and they'll have alot of capsace in 2015 as well) orl agreeing (
not sure) and the nuggets agreeing to dead the swap (
not sure) and that is a lot of things.
if the knicks can't get melo a legit wingman, i think that might be the best course of action. that's my hope anyway.