Golden Nuggets - Carmelo the Knick: "I'm home"

Dolan made it very clear that Zeke had NOTHING to do with this deal. He won’t ever work for them again.

As the dust settles i’m much more upset about billups leaving than melo. But im very excited to see what the future holds for us. I already got my tickets to the Jazz game next week and hoping to see my first nuggets. win im 0-9 when going to the nuggets vs jazz games out here.

Oh, and in case you’re asking the answer is: yes, I told you so.

You deserve that, you got a lot of shit for that.

Have you seen the official announcement?

Slated for premiere in August, 2011, the 10 episode, 30-minute docu-series, which began filming in January, will continue where the wedding special, La La’s Full Court Wedding left off as La La and her husband, NBA Forward Carmelo Anthony, prepare for a sudden move to New York City, where he will play for the New York Knicks.

Barf.

you couldn’t win in Denver so you ran back East……Big Fat Quit is all it was. When the going gets rough, run back home, that’s MElos legacy!

They did those Melo and Chauncey Billups chants, so it is good that they are treating our stars well. They need to do them for AC, Balkman, and Williams lol.
 Man I miss Chauncey already. Felton is a good FT shooter right? I was thinking who would we throw the ball into to ice the game.

atdhe.net apparently got shut down by the feds. o_O

A crappy team that barely beat a bad Bucks team. The Bucks would have won the game easily if they actually some kind of an offensive threat.

I also noticed how the D’antoni offense didn’t look too potent. Melo slows it down too much with his Iso offense. Knicks need a new offense or a new coach to be successful with Melo. The Knicks need to move up and down the court and put up shots quickly Melo just seemed to slow down their rhythm too much.

It sucks, but he’s been a complete professional about it and showed that the Knicks aren’t just the big two right now. Chauncey makes them a lot better. I’m only bringing this up because I still love me some Chauncey regardless of what team he’s playing on and I hope for the best for him.

That Chauncey quote makes me so fucking mad at Melo all over again

Guess all the writers at Stiffs hopped on that bandwagon. That quote from Chauncey is horrible. I feel so bad for him. I really want to try and like Melo, be happy for him, blah blah blah, but I swear every time I try and turn the page he just make another dumb ass selfish move or statement. Bottom line, just like Lebron, Melo might be a descent guy at heart, but his ego, selfishness and narcissistic attitude are hard to get past.

What we’re left with: We gave up a surefire Hall of Famer, who is only 26, for four New York Knicks starters. This is like acquiring the four best mountain climbers in Nebraska.

….I grew up in Colorado but spent 2 years living in Philly. I got out of there as soon as I could. I’m just not an East Coast guy. I can’t blame a person for liking a different city better. And I think Melo is fun to watch, but I didn’t think we could win a championship featuring him and that style of ball….I also like the Knicks giving us proven NBA players as opposed to a bunch of draft picks which were mostly protected and certainly no sure thing the guys drafted ever turn out.

Please Dont Treat Him Like Shit

“Our perceived desire to go young or cut salary [is unfair],” Kroenke said, according to the Denver Post. "The salary thing really hits hard with me because we’ve been in the luxury tax four of the last five seasons. We have a top-five payroll in the league this season. Our market doesn’t even come close to supporting that.

“The notion that this organization somehow is only concerned with cutting costs is absurd. We’ve explained that to Carmelo. This is all a result of his request to play in a different market.”

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/news/story?id=6153793

The Chicago Bulls, meanwhile, are most frequently mentioned as the leading suitor for Denver’s Smith, but the Mavs would gladly gamble on the volatile swingman, too. Smith’s 3-point range and $6.7 million ending contract is an attractive combo for the Mavs, since they’re convinced that the presence on the coaching staff of Tim Grgurich — who helped George Karl keep Smith plugged in with the Nuggets — along with a vet-filled locker room would make it easier to fit Smith in than his reputation suggests.

Denver, however, appears to be taking the same stance with Smith as it’s taken with newly acquired Danilo Gallinari and Raymond Felton as well as Nuggets mainstay Nene. Which is to say that the Nuggets are telling teams that they don’t even want to part with Smith before the deadline, preferring to focus on trying to clinch a playoff spot before considering further roster shuffling closer to the draft in June.

http://www.bothteamsplayedhard.net/2011/02/24/edgar-allan-poe-on-carmelo-going-to-the-knicks/

how one particular Knicks reader at posting and toasting said something, and I am paraphrasing “Melo went from arguably the WORST basketball city to the BEST basketball city”.

Oh yea? Obviously this person forgets about Memphis, Charlotte, Oklahoma City (the attendance will drop eventually) New Orleans, Toronto, Sacramento, Minnesota, Washington, Indiana, Milwaukee, Houston etc. etc.

But I’m ready to talk some Nugget basketball and read tweets about who GK is gonna start and what his rotations might be.

I want this version of the Nuggets to continue our 2 game win streak and get into the 4th or 5th spot in the conference by season’s end.

So I’m trying to reconcile this whole business of trading Chauncey. I’m trying to understand it. Before everyone pounces on me for trying to defend Melo this is NOT what this post is about. I’ve read and re-read the comments from JK and MU trying to see where they said that in order to move Melo they HAD NO CHOICE but to move Chauncey.

This is from Chris Tomasson’s recap of the trade and the press conference with JK and MU. I reference Tomasson because I think most of us agree that he is a reliable writer and is even-handed.

http://nba.fanhouse.com/2011/02/23/nuggets-masai-ujiri-we-got-killed-on-carmelo-deal/

I found these statements really bothersome. And seems to point to the Nuggets wanting to reduce payroll. I’m not bashing the FO for wanting to shed payroll, but it’s been spun that then ONLY way they could move Melo was tithe Chauncey. I don’t know what to think.

/bothered

m Josh Kroenke, “

As much grief as this process has caused, as many sleepless nights and countless hours of talks, as difficult as this process was — at the end of the day, you do want to do right by Carmelo,” Kroenke said. "I hate the fact that Chauncey is in it, but I think that we understand that not only would including Chauncey allow us to make the deal bigger, but it also gives Chauncey a chance to win. He’s going to go to New York and play with two all-star starters.

Kroenke said Billups was included in the deal because the Nuggets came to the realization that to order to get the maximum value in a trade for Anthony they had to expand the deal. However, Billups, 34, is due $14.2 million next season in the final year of his contract, and there have been indications he would have been bought out for $3.7 million after the season had he remained with the Nuggets.

My questions:
Was this about getting maximum trade value and saving money?
Was this to help Chauncey win?
Does that statement mean that JK didn’t think the Nuggets could win with Chauncey and whatever they got back for Melo?

/leaves to put on flak jacket

hope it stays on the market forever…lmao

And we wont see any dumb ass trade machine proposals again!

That Shane Battier for Hasheen Thabeet trade is U.G.L.Y

I’m not excited about having to wait til 8 fackin 30 to watch the Nuggets tonight.

Boston just traded Perkins to OKC for Jeff Green and Kristic… Wow. I’m kind of shocked. Green is really good. This is good for us Nugget fans. Looks like Boston has found their KG replacement.