The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

Nah, complete opposite. I love that he's climbing the ladder while wearing the pinwheel.

 

We're the only suckers still taken in by the Melo Experience these days. If we cut him, it'll be the end of his NBA career. Robertson and Olajuwon (and who knows how many others!) will be safe.

Don't we owe it to history? Where's Mario Hezonja?

 

I have no problem having Melo on our team... I just have a problem with him being coached by a guy like Stotts who openly says that regardless of what Melo does for our team on the court that he's earned the right to play because of his career. That's some of the craziest motherfucking nonsense I've ever heard.

Lets bring Clyde out of retirement and out of the broadcast booth to play over twenty-five minutes a game and have the green light the whole time he's in, I think his legacy has earned him that (and by Clyde I don't even necessarily mean Drexler we might want to do it with Walt Frazier).

 

Marc Gasol Minimum Salary
Carmelo Anthony Minimum Salary
Dwight Howard Minimum Salary
Nicolas Batum Minimum Salary
Wayne Ellington Minimum Salary
Jeff Teague Minimum Salary
E'Twaun Moore Minimum Salary
Markieff Morris Minimum Salary
Reggie Jackson Minimum Salary
Bismack Biyombo Minimum Salary
Hassan Whiteside Minimum Salary
Taj Gibson Minimum Salary
Mike Muscala Minimum Salary
Ben McLemore Minimum Salary
Glenn Robinson III Minimum Salary
Langston Galloway Minimum Salary
Tyler Johnson Minimum Salary
Jahlil Okafor Minimum Salary
Raul Neto Minimum Salary
Marquese Chriss Minimum Salary
Damian Jones Minimum Salary
Willy Hernangómez Minimum Salary
Sindarius Thornwell Minimum Salary
Torrey Craig Minimum Salary
Monte Morris Minimum Salary
Kendrick Nunn Minimum Salary
Wenyen Gabriel Minimum Salary
Luguentz Dort Minimum Salary
Isaiah Hartenstein Minimum Salary

 

Yeah, you look at that list and I would have liked to keep Wenyen and pick up Nunn if Miami would have given him up for draft considerations... which I'd still like to do because he still fits under the luxury apron and we have the roster spot for him.

 

There has got to be one more sucker out there. We can trade him starting Saturday!

 

I’d take Batum over him, but just because I’m a huge Nic fan.

 

I keep seeing people say that we have a roster spot for another player, but we have 15 players under contract. Blevins looks to be on a regular contract, not a 2-way (for some insane reason that smacks of nepotism). I know that the league changed the rule this season to allow 15 active players, but did they increase the number of roster spots?

 

https://www.nbaanalysis.net/2020/11...l-blazers-trade-carmelo-anthony-lebron-james/

If we can get anything out of Melo, DO IT!

 

Needs 14 to pass The Big O. Hope he does it in NYC!

 

You mean while playing for NY? Cuz I think he will be eligible to be traded Saturday am.

 

Melo is 10th in frontcourt allstar voting...a list that Gobert isn't even on...go figure!

 

Lu Dort is the second coming of Ron Artest. Dude is absolutely shutting guys down. Can't believe he's on a minimum for three more years.

I'd take him and quite a few others on that list well before Melo.

 

Even I agree with this.

 

Right about now Marc Gasol would come in pretty handy.

 

Sure, but I meant at his position. Should have reworded that.

 

Something I saw the last two games is kinda what I was talking about. All these isos that everybody hates..... I had said before that he has the respect of the refs and how that can help us down the stretch of tight games....
I’ve seen him go to the line 5 or 6 times recently where he got the most bullshit HOFer whistle from the refs. They just WANT to send him to the line. I’ll take those 4-6 points a night every game thank you.

 

I have to admit he does get a call sometimes that I think "Wow? How did that happen?"

 

But hey, legacy! We even had 50+ games to evaluate how worthless he was last year. Apparently an 8 game stretch overrode all of that.