**Official '11 NYK LOCKOUT thread*** lockout over

In class right now.. waiting to head to the game.
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So this would make expiring contracts very invaluable right? 



and DUB, Nuggets play vs Celtics @ 7pm on ESPN.. since you said you haven't really seen Melo play
 
Originally Posted by YEEUPP

So this would make expiring contracts very invaluable right?  
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expiring contracts will always be valuable because the money will come off of the teams books the next year. A hard cap and franchising players will hurt us more.

  
 
Originally Posted by DubA169

we never used to beat the teams we were "supposed" to beat so @#!% everybody trying to take something away from us. the heat have one quality win but all i see is articles about how they are on a roll and dominating teams.

not too comftorble about tonight. hard to beat a team 3 times in a row in such a short period of time
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exactly... everyone can hate all they want but they are beating teams so thats all that matters... i think theres 2 people that hate on the current knicks like the people who just hate the knicks for no reason ahem chris brousard and then those other people who just dont want to give the knicks credit... maybe the latter are knicks fans who are in denial because they are in the win streak and are so used to the knicks being garbage so they think it will happen again this year eventually...no need to get scared knicks fans this year is different... different attitude and culture... and so what if they beat below .500 teams it gives them confidence to beat the better teams... im just sayin
 
yuku erased all that.

basically, the players union got jokes. The rule changes they want are how you make a new Isiah Thomas. It'd help someone dumb and rich like Prokhorov to trade 7 mil players for albatrosses like Shard or Arenas. Then 2 MLEs means they can add 5 years for $60 mil every single year. Gotta at least try to protect owners from themselves.

And Melo ain't playing tonight. Sore knee or something.
 
Interesting stretch of games after these new two:
[table][tr][td] Sun 12[/td][td] vs Denver  [/td][td] 12:00pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Wed 15[/td][td] vs Boston  [/td][td] 7:00pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] 
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[/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Fri 17[/td][td] vs Miami  [/td][td] 7:00pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] 
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[/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Sat 18[/td][td] @ Cleveland  [/td][td] 7:30pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Wed 22[/td][td] vs Oklahoma City  [/td][td] 7:30pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Sat 25[/td][td] vs Chicago  [/td][td] 12:00pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] 
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[/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Tue 28[/td][td] @ Miami  [/td][td] 7:30pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Thu 30[/td][td] @ Orlando  [/td][td] 7:00pm[/td][td] [/td][td] 
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[/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td]January[/td][td]Opponent[/td][td]Time[/td][td]Local TV[/td][td]Nat TV[/td][td]Radio[/td][/tr][tr][td] Sun 02[/td][td] vs Indiana  [/td][td] 1:00pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Tue 04[/td][td] vs San Antonio  [/td][td] 7:30pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Fri 07[/td][td] @ Phoenix  [/td][td] 10:30pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] 
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[/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Sun 09[/td][td] @ LA Lakers  [/td][td] 9:30pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Tue 11[/td][td] @ Portland  [/td][td] 10:00pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][tr][td] Wed 12[/td][td] @ Utah  [/td][td] 9:00pm[/td][td] MSG[/td][td] [/td][td] [/td][/tr][/table]

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I'm a pretty superstitious dude and I've been wearing my Knicks Stoudemire T-shirt (I've been washin it so don't worry) and we've gone 10-1 since I've gotten it. My girl just got me a customized Knicks hoody from NBASTORE.com and I'm wearing it to watch tonight's game..Let's see if this hoody has any luck to it
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Post-Ups: Nuggets ready to move Melo

After weeks of speculation and despite a strong start by the Nuggets, Carmelo Anthony's last days in Denver may finally have arrived.

The Nuggets have all but decided to trade Anthony if he does not sign an extension with the team by the trade deadline, and Denver's management team believes Anthony is fully prepared to play out the season and become a free agent, multiple sources told CBSSports.com.

The Nuggets’ strong start, coupled with George Karl’s inspirational return from cancer treatment and positive discussions about a contract extension for the soon-to-be-1,000-win coach, have the organization feeling they've done everything possible to persuade Anthony to stay. But according to people with knowledge of the team’s strategy, if Anthony doesn’t agree to sign the three-year, $65 million extension by the Feb. 24 trade deadline, the wheels are all but certain to be put in motion to part ways with the three-time All-Star rather than lose him as a free agent and get nothing in return.

According to people in contact with the Nuggets’ management team, there is far more clarity today about what the team is seeking in a potential Anthony trade than there was in September, when new GM Masai Ujiri was thrust into the tempest in his initial days and weeks on the job. Executives believe the Nuggets have decided they would like to receive the best possible package of young players and are not interested in stopgap options that would hamper their flexibility. Acquiring a high-priced veteran player -- such as Andre Iguodala, whose talent the Nuggets value but not his contract -- would only hurt the team’s ability to build around youth while maintaining payroll flexibility into the uncertainty of a new collective bargaining agreement.

The Nets’ package of 2010 No. 4 pick Derrick Favors, guard Devin Harris, the expiring contract of Kris Humphries and two first-round picks remains the most attractive option to the Nuggets, sources say. Additional trade partners such as Charlotte and Utah are not eager to get involved in the discussions again, but wouldn’t necessarily be needed this time.

The wild card remains Anthony’s desire to sign an extension with the Nets, who obviously would not be willing to offer the same package without such a guarantee. While rival executives continue to doubt that Anthony would be willing to spend the next season-and-a-half in Newark, N.J., sources who have been in close contact with the power brokers in Anthony’s camp -- William Wesley and Leon Rose -- say the Nets remain an option for Anthony.

Anthony and the Nuggets will play Sunday at Madison Square Garden against the Knicks, which remain his top choice via a trade or free agency -- even though the latter option could cost him millions depending on how successful owners are at imposing salary reductions in the new collective bargaining agreement. Sources say Anthony is so fixated on winding up with the Knicks that Denver management has become convinced that he will tempt fate and the new CBA by playing out the entire season in Denver and signing with the Knicks as a free agent on July 1 – or after the lockout. The only way that scenario could be positive for Denver would be in a sign-and-trade deal. But such an arrangement – like the pennies-on-the-dollar deals that sent LeBron James and Chris Bosh to Miami – would not be nearly as beneficial as what the Nets are offering now.

The Knicks, playing their best basketball in years with free-agent acquisition Amar’e Stoudemire, have believed that their best chance of landing Melo was for the process to play out slowly – and they’ve gotten their wish so far. But the Nuggets, sources say, are not sold on the young players New York could offer such as Anthony Randolph, Danilo Gallinari and Wilson Chandler. Point guard Raymond Felton -- who has been on an offensive tear since gaining chemistry with Stoudemire and who becomes trade-eligible on Dec. 15 -- also does not interest the Nuggets, who view him as a halfcourt player who wouldn't fit their style.

Nuggets officials are said to be coming around to the idea that Harris could play in the backcourt with Chauncey Billups, who often played shooting guard this past summer with Team USA. But if Anthony is traded, sources say management also wants to show Billups -- who came to the Nuggets not just to come home, but to win -- the proper respect by engaging him in conversations about whether he'd prefer to be traded.

Other than hoping to persuade Anthony to sign the extension and stay in Denver, the biggest variable for the Nuggets is the sliding scale of quality on the Nets’ own first-round pick they’d convey in the trade. (They also would include Golden State’s protected 2012 first-rounder). The sooner the Nuggets trade Melo to New Jersey, the better the Nets get and the worse the pick gets. But that is a matter of timing and patience. As far as willingness to deal, it appears that the Nuggets are finally open for business.
Speaking of Madison Square Garden, rival execs agree that New York would be a logical landing spot for Andre Iguodala, and they believe the Sixers will be more than open to discussing trades for the dynamic but high-priced swingman as the Feb. 24 deadline approaches. The Knicks, one of the few teams in a position to absorb salary in the uncertain labor environment, also would be looking for an attractive piece to pair with Stoudemire in the event the Nuggets follow through with an Anthony trade prior to the deadline. Team president Donnie Walsh would have to decide if, short of Anthony, Iguodala is the best option that will be available to him between now and 2011 free agency -- if and when that happens. And also, if Iguodala is worth giving up the cap flexibility he's toiled three years to create. Pricetag notwithstanding -- the 26-year-old is due $56.5 million over the next four years -- Iguodala would be an excellent fit for Mike D'Antoni's high-octane offense and would instantly become the best defender on the roster by a mile
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this lineup sucks....
for both off. and def.

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our way of dbling him is soooo bad
 
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