The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

Paul Allen is so rich, and so geeky - that he probably started it when Nurk was 1 years old. He did with Lillard. Early days in technology and all, he ended up with CJ.

 

Cloning degradation, where each successive generation of clones is slightly inferior to the previous generation, is a common occurrence.

You are correct that Nurk was cloned at the age of 1, but it wasn't Paul Allen who was responsible. It was Stan Kroenke. Where did you think Nikola Jokic came from?

BNM

 

We need to include a bad contract to make it work but I have Vonleh in there too. It needs to be 2 young up and coming players on team friendly deals (Harkless, Vonleh) 1 bad Contract (Lenoard or Crabbe) and either a 2019 1st rounder or shabazz to make the math work and entice NY to take Crabbe's contract.

The biggest problem is we're over the tax line and need to match money (up to 125%) and melo has a trade kicker so his incoming salary is like 27-28m per year

Hark Vonleh Crabbe 2019 1st would be probably as rich as I get for melo Knicks probably say no because that is a ton of salary for them to take on (~35m next year) and none of those guys are really anything other than role players.

 

I still think that, if a trade happens, itll be Davis, Harkless, Meyers, and a 2018 1st. MyLe isnt as bad of a contract, Davis is expiring, and they get what they wamt in Moe and a.pick

 

Was Perry in the magic front office when they drafted Harkless?

 

Nope. He came in the following year

 

For the record, Woj didn't say the players reached out to Melo, just that they think having him would vault us into contention with everyone but the Warriors.

 

Not sure if Melo is with his wife or not but I think that plays as big a part as anything. Happy wife happy life. Players just don't appreciate Oregon till they've lived here a while well besides the taxes and tree huggers

 

But then we'll be arguing that Nurkic and MacNullum have too similar skill sets and we need to trade one.

 

So, this is working out pretty much as I expected. The Knicks will trade Carmelo if it gets them assets that are in the team's best interests in their rebuild, otherwise, he can finish out his last year with the Knicks and gets to play tutor to the young guys.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20088819/new-york-knicks-president-says-carmelo-anthony-stay-team

 

Nope. You're wrong...again.

 

You're right.

Scott Perry was hired 3 days before the Harkless draft as assistant GM.


LOL got me

 

Wasn't trying to get you. You do that well enough by yourself.

 

They're getting a divorce.

The only thing that really plays into it is that he has a kid.... but it's not like Houston is super close to NY either.

 

If he's open to Houston he should be open to some other teams like Portland for example. Houston isn't any more of a contender with him on it than Portland would be, so I don't see why he'd go there but not here, unless he just wanted to play with his friendzzzz

 

Nah he definitely said "Portlands players have been reaching out to Melo". The whole clip is below, they start talking about Portland at the 13:30 mark.

 

He had zero to do with Harkless

 

Random Fact: Many of the best NBA players from around the league use to get together and practice in Houston. IDK, if this is a factor.

 

People just assume that the Warriors are going to own the league, but injuries can derail that dynasty pretty fast. It's not like Curry and Durant are the most durable players in the league. We can't just assume that it's a forgone conclusion, and I think a core of Dame/CJ/Melo/Nurk would be pretty damn formidable.

I'm just not sold on CP3/Harden/Melo at all. I just don't see it.

 

Yeah we know all to well "Roy, Lma and Oden" still makes me sick to my stomach.