If he plans to stay, the Knicks have a $33 million dollar option that no other team can match. Melo is under contract through next season, but has already declared that he will opt out to test free agency. Trading him this year is the best option for all involved because it would mean Melo starts next season with a new team instead of a mid-season start. By next year, trade strength is out of the hands of the Knicks who will be on the clock to move him, or lose him with no compensation in return. It's now or never in essence.
Word in the wind is that the Anthony family pants have always been in the closet of La La, Carmelo's wife and television star. Word is that La La would rather take her family to la la land, (Los Angeles, CA) to join Kobe and the Lakers. The rise in her television exposure after arriving in New York makes it pretty easy to surmise that L.A. would be a sensible next move. The question over whether or not Melo' stays in New York and builds his legacy under the brightest of lights has several fingerprints worth of clues. Just ask Denver.
La La not only insisted that she does not have anything to do with Melo's decision, she did so by reminding us that she stayed with Melo in Denver. If she could do that she would go anywhere with Melo. If we missed her in Denver we might be offended. We do not and we are not.
Denver is not only a fantastic city (thank you), our Denver Nuggets are a virtual case study in the 'get what you can, when you can' ideology. Denver experienced Mr. Waiting to Explore my options Anthony, and we are here to tell you that back when he first re-signed, he signed right away. When he chose to leave, he needed to explore his options.
Our franchise is the same one that lost Dikembe Mutombo with no compensation, so we could not risk losing Melo in the same fashion. In hindsight, we probably would have traded earlier. After Lebron's "Decision", waiting to re-sign a star is like pulling the pin on a grenade and holding back the explosion with your thumb. Amazingly, Denver wrapped that grenade with duck tape and handed it over to New York. In exchange, they took all the young studs of the Knicks (Mosgov, Galinari and Chandler) and their first round draft choice next season. If Melo can not put a pen to this grenade, the Knicks will have to pass the danger on to someone else.
Melo already knows what to expect from New York, including the money . If these things make you still explore options, then you could be easily persuaded by the mere illusion of something better. The Anthony's thought he was going to something better in New York, but Denver has been consistently better since he left. The reality is that Ty Lawson and Melo could have made sweet basketball music together. New York may be the worst city in America when your team is not winning. If trade deadline Melo still can't turn this team around, it might be time to head out west.
Melo has learned this game rather well, and if he puts his underground search engine to work for job opportunities like he did from Denver, he will force the Knicks to trade him just to minimize the damage of losing him outright. No team will engage in this type of deal and risk losing Melo themselves unless they have some assurance (like the Knicks had from Denver) that he intends to stay with the new team. In other words, trading Melo to just any team won't cut it.
This is not your daddy's NBA. In the end, the teams only own the rights to the scrubs in the NBA. All of the superstars have carte' blanche selection of all teams throughout the league. If you don't secure their services, the stars realize that someone else will. Furthermore, if you can't satisfy the superstar, they become virtually useless as a mid-season trade piece because they will make it clear that another team has no hope to re-sign them
The Knicks not only have no choice but to trade Melo soon, they have to trade him to the place she wants to go........and stay. If he ends up in in Hollywood, we should all simply give La la the wink, and complement her on those nice slacks.
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