Official Carmelo Anthony Trade Rumors Thread (Carmelo is Officially a Knick)

[copped]

I really hope melo signs with new york in the off season and is not traded or is traded and still signs with new york...

trading chandler, gallo, or fields going to really suck...i really like all three of them, its seems all three embrace the NY media/spot light/ and culture...which not a lot of role players will be able to.

no respect for melo if he goes to nets or anyone else and signs an extension...better off staying with denver no?

a waiting game now.

 

[trynafeelmink]

The thing that is killing me is that everyone saw his reaction when he was told he was going to NJ... Did that look like the face of a guy who wants to sign an extension?

 

[trynafeelmink]

The thing that is killing me is that everyone saw his reaction when he was told he was going to NJ... Did that look like the face of a guy who wants to sign an extension?

 

[dontsteponmyshoes]

I want the Knicks to actually be good, thered finally be a eastern conference team I could root for. Hopefully Melo just lays low til the end of they year. Theyd be really dangerous if they could get him w/out trading. As long as 'Antoni is there theyd just be threats and thats about it, I could rock with that.

 

[throwback1718]

sooooo, btween now and Februrary, we are going to gett killed at least 2X a day with these rumors, and if nothing by Feb, we will get killed to July

 

[dontsteponmyshoes]

I want the Knicks to actually be good, thered finally be a eastern conference team I could root for. Hopefully Melo just lays low til the end of they year. Theyd be really dangerous if they could get him w/out trading. As long as 'Antoni is there theyd just be threats and thats about it, I could rock with that.

 

[throwback1718]

sooooo, btween now and Februrary, we are going to gett killed at least 2X a day with these rumors, and if nothing by Feb, we will get killed to July

 

[yeeupp]

[h1]Walsh Meets With Carmelo's Agent[/h1]Jan 14, 2011 7:39 PM EST

Donnie Walsh met with Leon Rose, the agent for Carmelo Anthony, at Madison Square Garden on Friday night.

Anthony is reportedly on the verge of being traded to New Jersey, subject to his acceptance of a long-term contract extension with the Nets, but is known to prefer landing with the Knicks.

 

[yeeupp]

[h1]Walsh Meets With Carmelo's Agent[/h1]Jan 14, 2011 7:39 PM EST

Donnie Walsh met with Leon Rose, the agent for Carmelo Anthony, at Madison Square Garden on Friday night.

Anthony is reportedly on the verge of being traded to New Jersey, subject to his acceptance of a long-term contract extension with the Nets, but is known to prefer landing with the Knicks.

 

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[MajinZuub]

I mean if Melo really wants to play in NY he could just wait til the end of the season and sign with them.

 

[MajinZuub]

I mean if Melo really wants to play in NY he could just wait til the end of the season and sign with them.

 

[throwback1718]

Originally Posted by zube42

I mean if Melo really wants to play in NY he could just wait til the end of the season and sign with them.

but DEN doesn't wanna end up like CLE and end up losing a superstar for nothing in return so they are gonna keep pushing it, whether he/we likes it or not.( Not saying that he will have to agree to any deal though). They are gonna do this daily till his mental breaks and he just says "okay well NJ might not be so bad after all" and then he second guesses it.

Who knows, I just wanna fast forward about 6 months

 

[throwback1718]

Originally Posted by zube42

I mean if Melo really wants to play in NY he could just wait til the end of the season and sign with them.

but DEN doesn't wanna end up like CLE and end up losing a superstar for nothing in return so they are gonna keep pushing it, whether he/we likes it or not.( Not saying that he will have to agree to any deal though). They are gonna do this daily till his mental breaks and he just says "okay well NJ might not be so bad after all" and then he second guesses it.

Who knows, I just wanna fast forward about 6 months

 

[goldmember]

I hope he goes to NY

 

[goldmember]

I hope he goes to NY

 

[xbraveheartx]

I hope he goes to NY so i can beast even more in 2k11 lol

melo and amare =

 

[xbraveheartx]

I hope he goes to NY so i can beast even more in 2k11 lol

melo and amare =

 

[mronegative]

I swear Ujiri just got dude locked in a room between games on some


some psychological warfare going on, forreal.

I just hope CP3 doesn't go there and they get knocked out 1st round every year.

 

[mronegative]

I swear Ujiri just got dude locked in a room between games on some


some psychological warfare going on, forreal.

I just hope CP3 doesn't go there and they get knocked out 1st round every year.

 

[blazers21ntnp]

[h1]Kiszla: Stan's nod needed for a trade[/h1]
By Mark Kiszla
The Denver Post

Posted: 01/14/2011 12:37:15 AM MST

Updated: 01/14/2011 01:21:09 AM MST

The most feared man in the house, the lone NBA power broker possessing the strength to set Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony free and a billionaire with so much game he could shut down Miami superstar LeBron James with a nasty work stoppage next season, slipped like a ghost into the arena.

Stan Kroenke is in charge here.

The blockbuster trade involving Anthony won't be completed until Kroenke offers his blessing. There can be no endgame for the prolonged Melodrama until Kroenke gives a wink and nod.

"It stinks playing under these conditions," Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups said Thursday night after Denver beat Miami 130-102.

But nobody, not agents who smirk while pulling strings throughout the NBA, not players who smugly believe they can hijack the traditional duties of a general manager and certainly not media members who unabashedly do the bidding for a league full of self-serving agendas, is going to rush Kroenke into a deal involving Anthony.

Kroenke has more money and guts than any of them.

You won't dare hear Anthony challenge Kroenke with an outspoken trade demand, because the Nuggets forward is no fool.

Although agents Leon Rose and William Wesley fancy themselves as NBA kingmakers, the lone way for any rep to get his cut of the $65 million contract extension that Anthony desires is to sing Kroenke's song.

Whether you're New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov or New York Knicks owner James Dolan, anybody who makes the mistake of thinking Kroenke is some hick from the sticks of Missouri will stumble from the negotiating table with 10-day bruises to the ego.

From the privacy of a luxury box in the Pepsi Center, with general manager Masai Ujiri whispering in his ear and only son Josh Kroenke at his right hand, the man who pulls as many strings as any person in American sports watched the Nuggets crush Miami.

In some sectors of cyberspace, the Nuggets have often been portrayed as country bumpkins who will somehow be used and abused by the Nets or Knicks, despite the fact both organizations have done a pretty fair job of defining NBA ineptitude in recent years.

The reason no team has closed a deal for Anthony is because no trade proposal has yet met with the approval of Kroenke.

The uncertainty preys on the Denver players. "I'm pretty sure they think about it. If they tell you that they don't, they'd be lying," said Anthony, who scored 21 points against the Heat. "I told them: Whatever happens is going to happen. As long as I'm here, I just want everybody to just play and have fun."

Ask anybody who has tried messing with Kroenke on the topic of money in years past, anyone from a young, cocky Gilbert Arenas to former Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe, and they could undoubtedly tell you how cold and unforgiving a nuclear winter feels.

There remains the possibility that Kroenke will push too hard, test the limits of the league's trade deadline, until Denver allows its best chance for a decent return on Anthony to slip away.

But don't bet on it.

Kroenke has pumped so much money into the Nuggets, paying the luxury tax and forgoing profits in the pursuit of the one championship he would most cherish, that he has told folks that this NBA team has been his own private charity case.

Well, Kroenke is no longer in a charitable mood. The Nuggets, including Anthony, Allen Iverson and Billups, fell short in their pursuit to bring Denver its first league championship. This franchise is stripping payroll and hunkering down for a labor war.

Just as he shut down the NHL in 2004, seeking a new financial order that made it harder for the Avalanche to dominate on the ice, you can bet Kroenke sees no reason to spend outrageously on a Nuggets team that might not play a game for a very long time next season.

And nothing, not Melo, not a general manager looking to pay pennies on a dollar for a superstar, not even the bright lights of New York City, is going to intimidate Kroenke.

This trade might not be done 100 percent on Kroenke's terms.

But it won't be done until he says it's time.

Mark Kiszla: 303-954-1053 or [email protected]

 

[blazers21ntnp]

[h1]Kiszla: Stan's nod needed for a trade[/h1]
By Mark Kiszla
The Denver Post

Posted: 01/14/2011 12:37:15 AM MST

Updated: 01/14/2011 01:21:09 AM MST

The most feared man in the house, the lone NBA power broker possessing the strength to set Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony free and a billionaire with so much game he could shut down Miami superstar LeBron James with a nasty work stoppage next season, slipped like a ghost into the arena.

Stan Kroenke is in charge here.

The blockbuster trade involving Anthony won't be completed until Kroenke offers his blessing. There can be no endgame for the prolonged Melodrama until Kroenke gives a wink and nod.

"It stinks playing under these conditions," Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups said Thursday night after Denver beat Miami 130-102.

But nobody, not agents who smirk while pulling strings throughout the NBA, not players who smugly believe they can hijack the traditional duties of a general manager and certainly not media members who unabashedly do the bidding for a league full of self-serving agendas, is going to rush Kroenke into a deal involving Anthony.

Kroenke has more money and guts than any of them.

You won't dare hear Anthony challenge Kroenke with an outspoken trade demand, because the Nuggets forward is no fool.

Although agents Leon Rose and William Wesley fancy themselves as NBA kingmakers, the lone way for any rep to get his cut of the $65 million contract extension that Anthony desires is to sing Kroenke's song.

Whether you're New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov or New York Knicks owner James Dolan, anybody who makes the mistake of thinking Kroenke is some hick from the sticks of Missouri will stumble from the negotiating table with 10-day bruises to the ego.

From the privacy of a luxury box in the Pepsi Center, with general manager Masai Ujiri whispering in his ear and only son Josh Kroenke at his right hand, the man who pulls as many strings as any person in American sports watched the Nuggets crush Miami.

In some sectors of cyberspace, the Nuggets have often been portrayed as country bumpkins who will somehow be used and abused by the Nets or Knicks, despite the fact both organizations have done a pretty fair job of defining NBA ineptitude in recent years.

The reason no team has closed a deal for Anthony is because no trade proposal has yet met with the approval of Kroenke.

The uncertainty preys on the Denver players. "I'm pretty sure they think about it. If they tell you that they don't, they'd be lying," said Anthony, who scored 21 points against the Heat. "I told them: Whatever happens is going to happen. As long as I'm here, I just want everybody to just play and have fun."

Ask anybody who has tried messing with Kroenke on the topic of money in years past, anyone from a young, cocky Gilbert Arenas to former Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe, and they could undoubtedly tell you how cold and unforgiving a nuclear winter feels.

There remains the possibility that Kroenke will push too hard, test the limits of the league's trade deadline, until Denver allows its best chance for a decent return on Anthony to slip away.

But don't bet on it.

Kroenke has pumped so much money into the Nuggets, paying the luxury tax and forgoing profits in the pursuit of the one championship he would most cherish, that he has told folks that this NBA team has been his own private charity case.

Well, Kroenke is no longer in a charitable mood. The Nuggets, including Anthony, Allen Iverson and Billups, fell short in their pursuit to bring Denver its first league championship. This franchise is stripping payroll and hunkering down for a labor war.

Just as he shut down the NHL in 2004, seeking a new financial order that made it harder for the Avalanche to dominate on the ice, you can bet Kroenke sees no reason to spend outrageously on a Nuggets team that might not play a game for a very long time next season.

And nothing, not Melo, not a general manager looking to pay pennies on a dollar for a superstar, not even the bright lights of New York City, is going to intimidate Kroenke.

This trade might not be done 100 percent on Kroenke's terms.

But it won't be done until he says it's time.

Mark Kiszla: 303-954-1053 or [email protected]