Golden Nuggets: Tampering a la Jordan?

to emphasize the difference, making it appear bigger than it should. Also the estimated true shooting percentage for Melo is bad because he shoots better than 75% from the free throw line. It also doesn’t take into account the fact that Melo leads the league in being fouled at the basket with no call being made. This puts his shooting percentage way lower than it should be. Melo figures he’d get those calls if he were in a Knickerbocker uniform.

It is sketchy though. Agreed

It is definitely sketchy and should be looked further into. If his endorsements stay the same or get better than I think it’s all good.

Its not like if Jordan dropped him no one else would give him a shoe deal

I mean, you gotta tell everyone how it is right? That’s what I do. :) Anyways, welcome.

i joined purple row about 16 hours ago bc i was so excited about the possible cargo extension. still waiting for comment activation.

so ill just post here:

YES!

is aldridge a prostate doctor now? If anything i would like to have some leaking, i dont know what the guy (melo) is gonna do.

if this guy calls this late breaking news he missed out stating that turoglu had a triple double last night. orlando made a good trade for him.

That most interesting part of this article is this:

Aldridge also reports that ‘Melo wants to be a part of "a combo of superstars like Miami put together to play alongside for the next few years." As currently constituted, the Nets would not meet that description and team insiders fear if they gave Denver everything it wants, the Nets wouldn’t have the assets they would to attract other superstar players.

If this is true then this just tells us more that Melo does not want to go to NJ.

Chris Tomasson is by leaps and bounds one of the best NBA reporters out there. I was worried when the Rocky folded that he’d be out of a job, but he’s gone on to good things at Fanhouse. Tomasson doesn’t report anything until he checks the crap out of it and has either extremely reliable sources or has back up.

There’s too many Chris Sheridan’s out there….we need more Chris Tomassons.

Rumors are just rumors…Can’t be proven one way or the other.

But it is kind of a shame that the ESPN writers, reading their tea leaves – actually foretold some of the drama and turned out to be mostly right about how it unfolded. Not saying their reporting is all that great, but it gives some credence to them after they got it out first and Melo did indeed want out.

Think of how hard it would be to report things 24/7 that are so open to being debated. Yes, the best reporters are those that do NOT give their opinions, but in this day and age, it just seems like that’s changed. Everyone reports, and at the same time everyone gives their opinions. It’s just how journalism has evolved with the recent surge of the interactive media world. The more shit like Twitter keeps getting invented, the more outlets there are, it’s eventually going to be impossible for people to just report without having to give their opinions. I respect the ones that don’t though. They are the true reporters, in a world of pseudo ones.

Havn’t we known that forever?

It’s been true most all of the year, and it hasn’t changed. So that’s likely what’s backing that statement up

I’m a Favors fan, but even I know this article is highly suspect, incredibly broad generalization of favors right now. They are comparing per minute stats of him to 3 of the best big men ever. Howard and KG were starters who played a lot more minutes and had important roles on their teams from day one. They developed quicker thanks to that experience, and their stats are skewed by having played many more minutes to reach their averages. Favors, while he projects out to be very good, is very often a non factor during the minutes he plays. The point is valid but it’s something to think about. Stats will mean more when Favors earns a meaningful role

I’m starting to get that one too, and I’m not even in jail right now. Ooooohhhhhh!!!!!

How can you possibly be alright with letting him walk @ the end of this season and get nothing in return????
This sounds like the sure fire path to stagnation as, sans Melo, we’ll be good enough to stay out of the draft lottery and bad enough to suck donkey balls for years to come.

We’re not winning the title this year, I really hate to break it to the Stiff community. Do we have a great team? Yes. Can we make a deep playoff run? If things go our way, sure. But are we going to win the NBA title this year? If you said “yes,” then please proceed to your nearest hospital and go directly to the E.R., because you need your head checked.

The bottom line is that, we’re not going to win the NBA title, and we’re not even close to being good enough. Are you saying that after losing in the first round for 6 of the last 7 years we’re suddenly going to trounce the toughest Western Conference there might have ever been, dismantle the two time defending NBA Champions and then proceed to take down the Miami Heat or Boston Celtics in a 7 game series without home-court? Paaaaleaze. Let’s all take a deep breath in for a second and let this thing we call “reality” come to us.

We’re not going to win the NBA title this year, and even making it back to the WCFs is going to be twice as hard as it was last time we made it. Trading Melo is the most logical, and beneficial thing we can do for this franchise. We’ll get some picks, young assets, and try to build for the future. Without that catalyst to get ahead, we’re screwed and going to look very similar to the Sac-Town Queens within a few years. No thank you.

(Please excuse me if there was any offensive hyperbole in the above paragraph.)

but I think I’m rooting for the hard floor.

congrats buddy

Has a cheap contract and is signed for a few years

I kinda think we need to keep him, if he would be willing to stay here for his family and stuff (married a Colorado chick). He’s too good, and he could play for a while. Yeah he probably won’t be an all star dominator every year but would prefer to keep him over just about anyone else.

Time to leave.

he’s going to Memphis.

Melo’s priority is signing the extension, as he’s stated. If we don’t trade him, he has to stay with us to sign it. Or hea has to accept whatever trade we give him in order to sign him. How do you not see the upper hand here?

maybe it’s true, but it has no more meaning right now then it did before.

Notice how most of those highlights are when we went to the WCF. Plus looks skinnier in most of the Highlights.