Melo 12: RealGM takes over the United Center

Droseisthe1 · Post #1281 » by **Droseisthe1** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:56 am

Can't wait to use this as my avatar pic

MisterRoy · Post #1282 » by **MisterRoy** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:56 am

Vintage wrote:Bulls are not going to be lucky enough to sign Carmelo for 4/60. That's a lot of money left on the table. It doesn't matter if he is set up for life. He's turning down tens and tens of millions of dollars to sign with Chicago? For what? A slim chance at beating Miami? Why not take a bit more of a pay cut and sign with Miami if winning is truly the most important thing.

Or resign with New York for max money

That's where the sign and trade comes in. Melo will get his money.

IndianPlaya17 · Post #1283 » by **IndianPlaya17** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:56 am

Magilla_Gorilla wrote:I swear one of the tweets said that Rose and Noah are there.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/484128405114191873[/tweet]

johnnyvann840 · Post #1284 » by **johnnyvann840** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:56 am

GimmeDat wrote:
TyrusRose2425 wrote:Can't post pics on phone but I saw a pic of d Rose leaving UC with a pair of shoes in his hands. Did he go practice for Melo at the new facility?

http://instagram.com/p/p7DCk_Kbu1/

This would be it I would imagine. It's interesting, you're right.

What if Rose is really better than ever right now? What if he walked into the meeting in his workout gear and told Melo to follow him to the gym. Rose then puts on a display of awesomeness for Melo and tells him he can go back to the meeting to work things out now. Rose leaves and Melo is like... where do I sign?

Now they're all out at dinner celebrating. We won't hear about it for a week.

Who knows? maybe it happened.

ReanimatedBulls · Post #1285 » by **ReanimatedBulls** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:57 am

I still see Dallas as the wild card here I imagine he's the best pitch man in the league, but best basketball fit is definitely Chicago

ReanimatedBulls · Post #1286 » by **ReanimatedBulls** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:57 am

Meant to say mark Cuban probably best pitch man

Hans Embiid · Post #1287 » by **Hans Embiid** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:58 am

Vintage wrote:Bulls are not going to be lucky enough to sign Carmelo for 4/60. That's a lot of money left on the table. It doesn't matter if he is set up for life. He's turning down tens and tens of millions of dollars to sign with Chicago? For what? A slim chance at beating Miami? Why not take a bit more of a pay cut and sign with Miami if winning is truly the most important thing.

Or resign with New York for max money

Bulls will s&t for him and and send Boozer, Dunleavy and picks out. Anthony is a Bull. Deal with it.

PMONSTER · Post #1288 » by **PMONSTER** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:58 am

WinCity wrote:
Magilla_Gorilla wrote:
RyGuy24 wrote:This was a little before KC's tweet.

Yeah he is. Getting that meal on. Working things out over a glass of wine and some marrow&toast points.

Boom. That's the death of the Rose don't recruit stuff. He just admit to recruiting LOL

It does..........

The Death of Old School

ChiCitySPORTS#1 · Post #1289 » by **ChiCitySPORTS#1** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:58 am

IndianPlaya17 wrote:
Magilla_Gorilla wrote:I swear one of the tweets said that Rose and Noah are there.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/484128405114191873[/tweet]

Lizard Swift · Post #1290 » by **Lizard Swift** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:59 am

Vintage wrote:Bulls are not going to be lucky enough to sign Carmelo for 4/60. That's a lot of money left on the table. It doesn't matter if he is set up for life. He's turning down tens and tens of millions of dollars to sign with Chicago? For what? A slim chance at beating Miami? Why not take a bit more of a pay cut and sign with Miami if winning is truly the most important thing.

Or resign with New York for max money

It would be more like $67 million, not $60 million. It wouldn't be a flat contract, he'd get raises, and most likely scenario would be some type of sign and trade with New York anyhow, possibly for very close to the max for 4-years if they have a sign and trade in place for Boozer.

He's also the lead guy for the Jordan Brand in the NBA right now. Probably doesn't hurt to have him playing in Jordan's house while being the lead guy for Jordan's brand. Think that could up his marketing potential a lot.

holv03 · Post #1291 » by **holv03** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:59 am

Melo has been impress with the Bulls.

I think is between Bulls and Knicks.

weneeda2guard · Post #1292 » by **weneeda2guard** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 12:59 am

If it's any market that could change mirotic mind in switching teams it's ny he just wants a big market ny can provide him that

I think he can be talked into joining ny

Post #1293 » by **GimmeDat** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:00 am

ReanimatedBulls wrote:Meant to say mark Cuban probably best pitch man

You're right, but I think Dallas is just lagging too far behind in Melo's eyes for some Cuban magic to put them over the top.

Dallas was a very attractive situation for Dwight and DWill the other year, but both of them went elsewhere.

Post #1294 » by **RedBulls23** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:00 am

RyGuy24 wrote:This was a little before KC's tweet.

Steve Kyler ‏@stevekylerNBA 22m

.@ToonArmySun: He met Benny and that was it? ---> actually heard he is having dinner with Joakim Noah and Derrick Rose.

holv03 · Post #1295 » by **holv03** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:00 am

ChiCitySPORTS#1 wrote:
IndianPlaya17 wrote:
Magilla_Gorilla wrote:I swear one of the tweets said that Rose and Noah are there.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/484128405114191873[/tweet]

LOL

johnnyvann840 · Post #1296 » by **johnnyvann840** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:00 am

ChiCitySPORTS#1 wrote:
IndianPlaya17 wrote:
Magilla_Gorilla wrote:I swear one of the tweets said that Rose and Noah are there.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/484128405114191873[/tweet]

That is rich.

Al Swearengen · Post #1297 » by **Al Swearengen** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:01 am

ChiCitySPORTS#1 wrote:
IndianPlaya17 wrote:
Magilla_Gorilla wrote:I swear one of the tweets said that Rose and Noah are there.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/484128405114191873[/tweet]

Those sauces ...

gmoney411 · Post #1298 » by **gmoney411** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:01 am

Magilla_Gorilla wrote:
gmoney411 wrote:
Shill4Tyrus24 wrote:I don't think Melo is terribly serious about Houston, Dallas, or Los Angeles.

Chicago or New York. That's it.

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Dallas and LA probably not but Houston has a lot of talent there and they can offer him the pretty much the full max by trading Lin.

No they can't. Will take more than just trading Lin.

Their cap number will be around $41MM if they trade Lin. Then you throw in various cap holds which I'm guessing is around $4MM. That puts them about $16MM below the cap. They can still open up about $2-4MM by dumping Jones and Donatas. It won't be hard for them to offer Melo close to $20MM a year. Morey has been saying for a while that they can open up enough space to get close to the max and they easily can after the asik trade

Droseisthe1 · Post #1299 » by **Droseisthe1** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:01 am

What kind of title window (how long) does a core of these guys realistically have?

29 year old Taj
29 year old Jo
30 year old Melo
25 year old (with prior injury history)

Indomitable · Post #1300 » by **Indomitable** » Wed Jul 2, 2014 1:01 am

RememberLu wrote:
Indomitable wrote:
RememberLu wrote:
two large fanbases, I'm sure there's lots of delusion to go around

They make us look sane.

A lot of them do seem hell bent on being relevant this year when I think it would serve them better to tank a year

It would be a big blow to their ego if Melo chooses us over them I guess

It is not just that. They have no perspective in regards to their team.