The contracts comes off the books next year, they are going to wait it out.
Yep. And if the contract with Melo is setup the right way, his salary cap number dips next year, when Durant is an FA. Then it’s a matter of signing Durant and the Knicks are in excellent shape.
Melo+Durant is almost impossible to stop. The NBA is now a scoring league. Nobody really has the energy to play both ends of the floor and with the new rules in place even great D doesn’t really mean much. The Spurs under Pop are a great example of a team that just adjusts to the new ruleset. Let LBJ score his 30, what difference does it make when you still outscore them by 30? Melo and Durant are going to outscore a lot of teams.
But that is getting ahead of things. In the NBA though the point is things can flip very quickly, and scoring talent is a premium.
How long is JR still on the team? While it might be funny to watch Durant go from Westbrook to JR I really don’t think it’s a good idea.
The teams that lose out on the Melo/Bron sweepstakes are going to offer Lance Stephenson 50 mil over 4.
Melo is all about that 129 million
The point you two is Lebron and Melo wanted to play together and Phil was trying to move them so they have enough dough for both. Which would really be unstoppable.
Personally I don’t see Durant leaving a young and talented beast like Westbrook and Ibaka to join an aging Melo in New York. Melo would be like 31 by that time and it’s still up in the air who will be on the Knicks roster. The Thunder are like one player away from a championship at this point and I think if they make it back to the Finals they’ll beat the Heat because the Heat are slower and worse than the team that beat them in 2012. Maybe I’m wrong but the only team that stopped the Thunder were the NBA champs and the Thunder wasn’t even healthy during that entire match up.
I don’t see him leaving such a powerhouse team but who knows.
Melo staying in NY surprises… no one. All things considered it was the best move. As far as Amare and Bargnani it doesn’t really matter. Their contracts are up after a year anyway. Dolan has been willing to piss money away thus far, at the very least he owes Phil one year of doing the same.
Corrected that for you.
Melo still hasn’t chosen yet.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they all go back to their respective teams. …all this drawn out media attention is fabricated anyway. …
This has probably been the most annoying free agency period of all time. Nobody knows anything and reports are still coming out about shit.
Rumors. These are all rumors. When the players sign a contract, that’s when everyone will know. Nobody is going anywhere anyway, this is all just contract negotiations.
*As mad as still am about him letting Paul go, I’ll be god damned if he’s not trying to make it up to us. Dude is trying to have a war chest of nothing but 1st round picks. *
Noooo the Chandler Lin bromance
We’ve already said we’re going to match whatever offer he gets when we made him an RFA one year early. We owe the guy and the organization knew it.
Unless we get word that a top FA is going to sign with us, we’ll match it.
But I hate Mark Cuban because he pretty much takes us out of the running for a big FA. Dude’s still salty about not getting Dwight.
Let it go, Mark.
Probably for the best if we keep Lin. It’s a contract year for him, he’ll play to the best of his ability, we can still trade him to Philly and if not he comes off the books next season.
Well Durant really likes Fisher, respects Phil, and him and Melo grew up together (both in Baltimore). But yeah he could stay in OKC too, who really knows for sure. I would lean towards him staying in OKC, but speculation is speculation, we’re just coming up with random shit in this thread because it’s the offseason and there’s no games.
Adrian Wojnarowski is one of the few credible NBA journalists, and say what you will about First Fake, but when Stephen A. Smith says something is going to happen it probably will. I still remember him reporting on Lebron going to the Heat in February of that year. WAAAAY ahead of anyone else.
I’m just saying… if LeBron wants to leave, then do it already. The soap opera has gotten beyond annoying. Let the Heat know so that they can use the money on someone else.
Can we get a show on the Decision 2?
Lebronjames.com will supposedly have an announcement about his decision, so no Decision 2.
Could’ve been great too, fade in wearing a Cavs jersey, shake Gilbert’s hand, have him being out the contract and lay it on the table to sign first and then have Bosh, Wade, and Melo show up as LeBron slams a steel chair into his back. LeBron takes off his Cavs jersey wearing a Heat jersey underneath as Riley walks in and stares over Gilbert’s laid out body.
The DX theme plays and LeBron rips up the contract.
I don’t think anyone wouldn’t enjoy seeing that.
Good God. The amount of Laker fans panicking over some rumor that Melo is going ot re-sign with NY is hilarious. I can’t wait for people to blame Jim Buss for this as usual or how he didn’t have Phil as a second GM or wtf-ever.