Confident about Melo re-signing? Not me...

Melo’s 9.5 million dollar home in Denver is up for sale. I saw it in the paper this morning.

Scott and Dempsy talked a little about Melo and signing an extension on thier show today and Scott thinks Melo is gone as well. He said if Melo wanted to win in Denver he would sign the extension and recruit players ie. Chris Paul to come to Denver and win there. Instead, Melo will most likely leave the extension and Denver on the table and never touch it again. It sucks but it’s life. Players keep coming out of college and gkeep getting better and better. Look at Durant. If Melo leaves it’s not the end of the world, but it will be tough on this franchise. Lets all hope Ty Lawson can be a special player like Paul, Rondo, D Will etc. because I see Ty being a loyal guy to Denver other than Melo who’s got agents, friends and an already annoying wife telling him to go elsewhere.

Also, shouldn’t Chris Paul be fined or suspended for going out and saying “we’ll form our own big three in New York” while being under contract for the Hornets? That’s as disrespectful and unprofessional as you can get to your current team and fans.

Not that that helps the Nuggets keep Melo.

1. New York is a mess and will remain a mess in to next year. Paul is locked up till 2012 and possibly 2013 (player option) and Melo would be stuck with a Mike D’Antoni coached team in New York….several steps back from the team he has in Denver. Plus, New York won’t have the cap room to sign both players unless they do some massive trading.

2. The NBA may not even play in the 2011 season (lockout) so I’m not sure what Melo would be counting on.

3. Has Melo struck any of you….even the Melo detractors….as a person who craves the kind of spotlight that Lebron does? Lebron has ALWAYS been a prima donna even back to High School. His sense of entitlement goes well beyond just basketball. While Melo has his troubles, I don’t get the sense that he’s spotlight hungry like Lebron. I could be wrong…but I don’t think so.

If Melo leaves it WILL set the franchise back. No doubt about it. On the other hand, after what will be 8 years in Denver I think we can all say that it’s a long enough time to prove one’s self. If Melo doesn’t think he can do it in Denver then so be it. I will wish him luck and enjoy the memories of him being a Nuggets. What separates Denver fans from Cleveland fans is we don’t have a persecution complex. Denver fans will go on. It will be REALLY rough to rebuild but I think it can be done.

Need to get that front office situation handled though….first and foremost.

The next few months will be interesting. If he hasn’t signed the deal by December I would expect the FO to attempt to move him. There is also the possibility that Melo plans to sign the extension, but is waiting to see how our team changes through out the season. I can’t honestly blame him if this were his actual stance. If you look at it, besides the signing of Harrington, which had to be done just to stay competitive for the first three months of the season, the Nuggets have only made cost cutting moves. Last year being a prime example. The Nuggets were so close to having one of the best teams we’ve ever seen in Denver sans one good big man. The FO couldn’t get the job done for various reasons. Was it Stan’s sudden spending restraints that kept the Nuggets from getting a big? If this is the case then I would be a little wary of signing the extension. I disagree with the argument that because Melo isn’t recruiting players he is going to leave. The team could only have spent the mid level exception on a free agent. There weren’t many options for us.
We do have one guy on the team who has impacted free agents. I heard Al Harrington on the fan talk about one of the reasons he came to Denver (a Chauncey Billups opinion) http://www.1043thefan.com/channels/audioOnDemand/Story.aspx?ID=1254410

Time will tell what happens….

But Andrew raises a few good points.
Just on the whole LeBron Saga, i really used to like LeBron. He was one of my favourite non-Nugget players in the league. However now everything is starting to come to the publics attention. The Wojnarowski article really opened my eyes about LeBron, and you know what, it adds up. I have been to blind to see it. But LeBron has done a few things wrong this offseason, The Decision being the biggest, i mean c’mon that is just plain up yourself. I’m not sure if you guys have this word in America but we Aussies have a little word called FIGJAM, and it stands for “Fuck im good, just ask me” perfect for how Lebron has handled himself this offseason.

and if so, I don’t see him pulling a Lebron and subjecting himself to the backlash James will feel for the rest of his career. I can’t argue many of the points made and the concerns, but personally I just see him in a very different mold than his draft mates, if only because he was less “anointed” coming out of high school and worked a bit harder to put that big spotlight on him in Denver. If his managers and business partners really wanted whats best for him they’d tell him to take at least a bit more guaranteed dough before the impending lockout. Whatever happens, I don’t see Melo leaving Denver as a villain. If Melo thinks we can’t get it done here he’s wrong, I’d be surprised and disappointed, but it wouldn’t hit us like a ton of bricks and ruin basketball in Denver. Lebron already outdid him and if he wants to head for the bright lights and big city I’d probably just look at it as a natural end to things as we’d know he’s not the right guy to lead this team to the promised land and our first NBA title.

I wonder if MElway leaving Denver is a “done deal”

get something from him instead of nothing.

Not just for the Nuggets, but for the NBA. For what was an insanely talented draft class that re-defined the NBA in the 2000’s, there would be a crazy number of disillusioned fans if they all did what the Miami three did. There are already a lot of people who are disgusted by the LeBron moves… if Melo did the same thing it would be hard to find those loyal, good guys that really endear fans to the sport.

It wouldn’t just be limited to Cleveland or Denver either — in any small or mid-market city, fans would hesitate to really support their team or players if the assumption was that they would jump ship at the first big-market opportunity.

Anyone that writes articles attributing so much power and swank to www just becomes another one of his chumps. The guy is nothing but a shoe salesman. The Internet is full of unverified claims of his power and influence and how he straightens out players who don’t have their shit together. If he really did all those Jesus-like good works then why did his good buddy Iverson end up a drunk with gambling problems? Why is it that he didn’t cure Balkman(managed by Rose) of being a lazy drunk fuck?
The Economist reckons that LeBron would have made nearly a billion dollars in advertising had he gone to the Knicks but nothing like that in Miami, is Wes a dumbass or maybe can we attribute that to LeBron.
From what I read in the Wojnarowski article, it was LeBron who wanted the ESPN special against the opinions of his inner circle jerk and www. I guess the guy doesn’t have the influence you attribute to him so maybe Melo will actually stay in Denver. If I’m wrong, then maybe Melo will leave and Wes will persuade Stan and Karl that Balkman is our new superstar. Thus is the power of Wes. LOL!

if he was going to sign, he would’ve already 80+ million on the table, who leaves that? The hostage situation has already started in Denver! I still don’t understand why he would go East w/ the super team forming. Why not stay in Denver, wait till Kobe retires and Kmart comes off the books and start owning the conference???? If he thinks he can’t win in Denver, then get him outta here, dude was 2 wins away from the finals, maybe if he didn’t disapear the last couple games he coulda pushed us over the top.

His best shot at success will be by luring some big names to Denver. The road to a Finals championship is through LA. Right now, Melo’s only road block is LA, with OKC closing in. If Melo wants to win, then do it the way Bird, Magic and MJ did…As the brightest star on the team. Win “like a man” as Charles Barkley said it. If you have to be like your peers, then be like Wade and lure the talent to you.

is Melo after game 3 of the Utah series asking for help. “I can’t do it myself” he says. Just get the feeling he thinks it can’t happen in Denver.

is the LeBron backlash. Melo has to know that if he stays loyal and wins a trophy in Denver, he’ll get the respect of Jordan Bird Magic and be regarded exponentially more highly than Wade, LeBron and Bosh ever will be. This is especially so if the Nugs beat the Heat in the finals. Melo would also be an Elway like icon locally.

Melo doesn’t need to be wooed, he went through the process before choosing Syracuse… he doesn’t have a huge ego like LeBron… Another thing, the only thing Melo wants right now is to win… he’s sees his 3 best friends teaming up and is probably jealous… So he’s gonna go where ever he has the best chance to win… Another point is that if there’s a lockout (which there prob will be) there won’t be a free agency period until everything is settled out and Melo isn’t dumb enough to leave that kind of guaranteed money… Also NY won’t have the cap space to sign Melo, so why do they keep being mentioned?

it would have to be a sign and trade and they don’t have anything Denver wants (except maybe Gallo, but his contract isn’t big enough)… not to mention Denver will still be a better team then NY… Melo is smart and won’t sign the extension until he feels that the team has done everything they can to improve… If he has to wait until the last possible day, then so be it… I just hope the Nuggets FO isn’t dumb enough to listen to the media and actually listen to the crap that they should trade Melo…

… leaving Cleveland and doggin’ it in the playoffs was his discovery of his mom’s affair with a teammate. That could make one not care about the team.

Carmelo is on his honeymoon. I know talking about whether he will sign or not makes for entertaining blog posts and newspaper articles, but signing a contract extension while visiting exotic destinations with his new wife would not be a priority.

You can fault Carmelo all you want for some of the bone-headed things he did (the “no snitching” video, the DUI, the pot in his car, etc.), but he has been much more open in his communication with George Karl and Stan Kroenke and has expressed his desire to resign on multiple occasions, which are things that LeBron never did.

He wants to be the face of the Nuggets for years to come and has expressed that as recently as a month ago.

Why are your posts so consistently negative? Sometimes it seems a little bit of optimism from the Nuggets biggest promoter would go a long way.

Agents get paid basis points on the contract of the player they represent, no? So isn’t that just one more interested voice whispering in his ear that he shouldn’t leave the big money on the table ahead of a lockout?

http://www.examiner.com/x-51487-NY-Latin-Culture-Examiner~y2010m7d20-Basketball-star-Carmelo-Anthony-not-likely-to-come-to-New-York-Knicks-next-year

but Melo’s Denver area house was on the front page of the real estate section in either Saturday’s or Sunday’s Denver Post over the weekend. Asking $9.5M for a 21K square foot mansion, barn, and guest house. Did anyone else see that?

He moved away from Lakewood a couple years ago but not sure if the house ever sold….this was the house that was on MTV Cribs.

Anyway, Andrew’s point about Melo signing the extension before and recruiting others to come here doesn’t make sense, considering the team didn’t have cap room and seemed unwilling to pay the luxury tax this offseason. The A.I. deal was to save face and interest in the Nugs during Melo’s suspension, and the Chauncey deal was a salary dump for Detroit that worked in our favor as CB still had some gas left in the tank. The Harrington deal is a start, but I doubt much more will happen by the season start. All the guys we want to trade out of here are either injured, coming off injury, or off subpar seasons and have little value to other teams. I just can’t see much happening before the trade deadline in February, but I hope this FO proves me wrong. Hire a real established GM Mr. Kroenke, stop this parade/charade of a FO we have, and get serious about the business of basketball as it is right now as the past can become irrelevant unless you do nothing.

Can we get an official “Is Melo Leaving” voting post? I want to see what percentage of Stiffs feel as though he’s about to say ‘Mahalo bitches’.

I have had the sinking suspicion that AlbHarrington is insurance if Melo leaves. He plays a lot like Melo, and could hold down the 3 spot for a few years if Melo leaves. If Melo wants to go, so be it. The Nuggs will be bad for a few years, draft and some new young talent and start again. Rebuilding with a big bucks owner like the Kroenke’s might be fun…

Is this the 80’s folks?

“Mr. Gorbechev….tear down this Lethal Weapon”

Posters are debating the sins of Christianity. Man….I thought it just affected Denver.

In case you wanted to know what Melo is doing today on twitter he said he was buying a bike today and later on posted the bike he bought heres the link http://twitpic.com/2765os
So heres today edition of Whats Carmelo up too!!!

The fact that he is not (at least publicly) actively recruiting free agents makes you wonder.
But from a financial standpoint, it doesn’t make any sense for him not to come back, and that has to be #1 in his list of priorities. The whole LeBron saga is going to work in our favor, because he knows that LeBron is basically the most hated athlete in the world right now, and if he pulled some sort of stunt like that he would be up there too. So, at the very least, I would expect him not to be obnoxious about it, and at the best the LeBron saga would make him want to stay in Denver.

The comments got a little off topic this thread but it tends to happen from time to time. Best just to keep our own religious and political views in the closet.

As for Melo. Feinstein brings up a great point, or at least touches on it. We can’t be like Cleveland in the sense that we must have a backup plan in place in case Melo leaves. The thing we have on our side is tons of potential cap room, but we need to be prepared in as many ways as we can so we arn’t left making trips to the lottery for the next decade once again.

In my opinion if Melo doesn’t resign soon his choice of leaving or staying is going to depend on the postseason next year. The West is only getting better and I bet Melo wants assurance that we can compete for the best in the West each year. If we lose in the first round again (which would suck enormous you know what) Melo is as good as gone. Second round, it’s gonna be a tough call. But if we make it back to the WCFs for the second time in 3 years there is no way Melo leaves. So it’s a simple formula, win and Melo stays.

’Melo never wants a championship, I think he was saying he cannot do it by himself of the offensive end, but we all know he needs more than his fair share of backup when it comes to defense. ’Melo makes his summer home in LA, he yearns for the big lights, but with the 2009 playoffs aside I see no heart in ’Melo and if he leaves I will not be that upset; jersey, t-shirt and basketball shoe purchases aside.