The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

If so then he's an idiot and should be fired immediately before he can misuse team assets.

 

I'm really hoping I'm wrong. The Knicks have some veteran players that I wouldn't mind acquiring, and they should probably be going with their youth, but the trade seems to be much too simple to include a lot of pieces.

 

Or... Maybe he's throwing Butters in as a monkey wrench in the works? If he does NB's trade, I will be pissed. Not sure if I'll be in the fire him camp, but I won't be happy with NO.

 

I would love to know what NY is demanding. If they are unwilling to take Meyers, who are they trying to get?

This is probably the kind of trade that they want

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y8ok2t39

 

OOH LAWD NO!

 

Can't you just imagine that's the kind of bullshit they're asking for?

 

Cavaliers would be thrilled to get Ryan Anderson, while they still have Kevin Love, and Meyers Leonard in exchange for their only center and Frye.

 

I don't know why that's funny to me. Yes I do. I pictured you saying it! LOL.

 

Funny, a trade where everyone gets worse (according to Hollinger)

 

Yup lol

 

If he uses Harkless to dump Meyers I'll be firmly in the FIRE OLSHEY camp. That's an egregious misuse of assets. Meyers' contract is only $10M/year - that's not an anchor by any means. We were willing to pay Ezeli $10M a year for nothing, so why not with Meyers - at least he's capable of giving you 6 fouls and maybe a 3-pointer or two every now and then. And at some point his contract will be great trade ballast for an unbalanced trade. Using our best SF to get rid of a player who really isn't a detriment to the team is utterly stupid.

 

Which is why he almost certainly will not do it. NO did probably overpay to keep and get some assets to help strengthen his options in trades. But, I haven't seen him do anything truly stupid in the trade market and I still have not heard anyone from Paul's circle say that he is willing to make the team worse just to save some coin.

 

It's unlikely that Melo stays in New York either way. I don't think that's necessarily why the new GM put it on hold.

Certainly he wants to talk to Melo himself and see if he wants to stay. But the biggest reason for the new GM to put the deal on hold, is to determine what he wants back in return. He has the right and the obligation to broker his own deal to build his own team.

Hopefully, he thinks Meyers and Aminu and Turner are GREAT!!

 

Agreed. Especially since HE signed him to that bullshit deal. However, I think he can learn from his mistakes. I don't know of an immediate replacement that can do better...

 

Haha! That's the trade I'd rather make. Although I'd rather send out Crabbe.

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ybptbjxw

 

Evidently the parameters of the deal are done. My guess is the knicks wanted to put it on hold to make it seem like Perry had a say in it. I'd be surprised if it wasn't finalized after the weekend or some similar timeline.

 

But how does that give us enough cap to re-sign Nurk? Swapping RA's contract with Crabbe's still doesn't help us in that area.

 

So far I've mostly been okay with his trades and his drafts. His free agent targets have been AWFUL. If he started making bad trades, that would be the end of it for me.