Ford: Melo targeting trade to Bulls

MikeDC · Sep 27, 2010

Yeah, you did have the Deng idea first. I was sort of perplexed about Harris being in the deal too. It seems like everyone's problems could be solved with Troy Murphy and not including any other teams in the first place.

On the Harris front, I just read this

Meanwhile, the uncertainty that’s surrounding teams involved in the talks is starting to take a predictable toll on egos and emotions at training camps. Even if a deal for Anthony never materializes, New Jersey coach Avery Johnson has serious repairs to make with Nets point guard Devin Harris(notes), a league source told Yahoo! Sports on Monday.

Harris had been a huge advocate for Johnson with former Nets officials by endorsing the hiring of Johnson over the summer, and a source says Harris is feeling “a little put off” that the coach is so quickly looking to send him out of New Jersey as part of a trade for Anthony.

As part of the original four-team trade proposal, Harris was destined for Charlotte and wasn’t terribly enthusiastic about the move. And that was especially true after Johnson had spent the summer selling Harris so hard on how much he needed him to help sell the coach’s program in New Jersey.

Johnson and Harris had an up-and-down relationship in Dallas, but Harris believed the Nets desperately needed Johnson’s discipline and structure, and pushed hard with former president Rod Thorn for Johnson’s hiring. Harris, 27, came to the Nets in 2008 as part of the Jason Kidd(notes) trade with Dallas. He had his best season as a pro in 2008-09 when he averaged 21.3 points and 6.9 assists.
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and this

The four-team trade fell apart when Denver kept trying to include more of its players in deals to spare themselves a bigger luxury-tax bill that would’ve come with the arrivals of Kirilenko and Favors, sources said.

Sources say that the Nuggets have strong interest in trying to do a deal with Philadelphia that included swingman Andre Iguodala, but the Sixers’ inability to get a commitment out of Anthony that he would sign a contract extension with them made the point moot.

One of the biggest obstacles with cutting a deal with the Nuggets, league executives said, continues to be the peculiar and unclear power structure of the Denver front office. What had been the case under the previous regime has carried over with new vice president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri, the owner’s son, Josh Kroenke, and adviser Bret Bearup: No one talking to the Nuggets is sure who’s in charge, who’s making the decision and who can get everyone in agreement.
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MikeDC · Sep 28, 2010

http://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/25816594108

Four way deal died, and league source says that Nets "need some closure on matter." Hard to run a training camp with so much uncertainty.
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http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/11838893/24900717

Nuggets had any number of ways to achieve their goals in 4-team framework, and couldn't make up minds. Hard to deal w/ team like that.
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Hard to imagine Melo in Denver til deadline, much less the whole season. That may be his only way to get to NYK, but huge risk.
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Melo, sources say, wanted nothing to do with sitdowns or powows about his future Monday. He's doing, saying right things but still wants out
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Hard part for Denver is that this deal was constructed and brought to them by NJ, CHA and Utah. They're on their own now.
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Four-team framework of Melo deal died Tuesday. A Melo trade -- to NJ or elsewhere -- still alive. #NBA #Nuggets #Nets
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Denny Crane · Sep 28, 2010

I wrote this before....

We went into the FA period with the cap space to sign two max FAs and we actually could come out of the whole thing with two top tier players if we got Melo.

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