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http://grantland.com/features/carmelo-anthony-new-york-knicks-legacy/
Bill Simmons neatly summarizes Melo's career and puts it in to historical perspective.
dope article. simmons needs to stick to this and get off my screen.
http://grantland.com/features/carmelo-anthony-new-york-knicks-legacy/
Bill Simmons neatly summarizes Melo's career and puts it in to historical perspective.
That article was a nice summation of Melo's career. I'd hate to see another great player's career turn into another big "what if" because ( and I know a few fellow Knicks fans here will disagree) the Bulls really were the perfect fit for him, especially with Lebron going to a younger, more inexperienced team now and the East being wide open. Hopefully in 5 years the Knicks make at least 1 title run( it goes without saying, but we'd definitely need a few things to break right for us in order to do that), and hopefully Melo doesn't look back on his career here as time wasted.
Why is the Bulls the perfect fit for anyone when their franchise player has only played 49 games in 3 years, and their defensive anchor only played 66+ games one time in 5 years, and had to have knee surgery after doing so? Why would it be a perfect for 'Melo to go to a team where their franchise player and defensive anchor are both coming off of injury when he just went through that with J.R? Why would it be a perfect for 'Melo to go to a team where their franchise player and defensive anchor both have knee issues when he's been going through that with STAT for 2 or 3 years? Why would it be a perfect for 'Melo to go to a team where their best big has, of all things, feet issues? Why would it be better for anyone to leave Phil?

When opposing teams know that all they have to do is clamp down on Melo? Teams do that now- but at least JR is a more dangerous secondary scorer than anyone on the Bulls at this point. So Melo has to burden the Offense burden just the same at Chi.
Not looking great.fukk the pipe dream 2015 and you still have flexibility for 2016 with the free agents I'm more intrigued by.
Golden State Warriors and Knicks
Knicks receives Andrew Bogut, David Lee, Harrison Barnes, 2 future 2nd round picks
Golden State receives Amare Stoudemire, Andrea Bargnani, Iman Shumpert, Pablo Prigioni
Sign Michael Beasley 2 yr/ 11 million (will be able to use MLE by the GSW/NYK trade), 2yr, player option
Release Ellington
Send Antetokoumpo to NBA DL
Resign Toure Murry
Bogut/Dalembert/Aldrich
Lee/Beasley/Tyler/
Anthony/Barnes/Early
Smith/Hardaway jr/Brown
Calderon/Larkin/Murry
Easily a 44 win team
fukk the pipe dream 2015 and you still have flexibility for 2016 with the free agents I'm more intrigued by.
Golden State Warriors and Knicks
Knicks receives Andrew Bogut, David Lee, Harrison Barnes, 2 future 2nd round picks
Golden State receives Amare Stoudemire, Andrea Bargnani, Iman Shumpert, Pablo Prigioni
Sign Michael Beasley 2 yr/ 11 million (will be able to use MLE by the GSW/NYK trade), 2yr, player option
Release Ellington
Send Antetokoumpo to NBA DL
Resign Toure Murry
Bogut/Dalembert/Aldrich
Lee/Beasley/Tyler/
Anthony/Barnes/Early
Smith/Hardaway jr/Brown
Calderon/Larkin/Murry
Easily a 44 win team
What....
Say brehs...we need to get some Fish smilies
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I love him because he gets hype off of every defensive stop like 2012 Shump( I miss that dudeTenacious D looks like he is going to make the roster. He is raw but like I said earlier Fisher hired a couple of the Thunders coach to apparently help with development.
Stuff phil and fisher have said about the team playing defense and needing somebody out there with shump who likes to play D to support that (or hold it down if shump gets into foul trouble) makes me think he'll make the roster. He won't see a lot of minutes but thats normal for a second round rookie.

at his hacking and slashing... He's going to have Clyde rapping like he's in a URL tournament.Tweeted this out yesterday but I'll post it here too -
Calderon/Prigs/Larkin
Shump/THJR/Ellington
Cleanthony/JR
Melo/STAT/Bargs
Dalembert/Aldrich
K-Mart & Jeremy Tyler.
That rounds out our 15 player lineup. I assume we're gonna stash Thanasis overseas in the Greek league for a year unless Ellington gets waived.
Compare this roster vs last year
Felton/Prigs/Udrih
Shump/THJR
Melo/MWP
STAT/Bargs
Chandler/Aldrich
plus K-Mart, Tyler, Shannon Brown, Chris Smith, Toure Murry, Earl Clark.
And yeah, you can see the noticeable changes, youth and better depth IMO.
I'm stealing the shyt out of this gif.Why is the Bulls the perfect fit for anyone when their franchise player has only played 49 games in 3 years, and their defensive anchor only played 66+ games one time in 5 years, and had to have knee surgery after doing so? Why would it be a perfect for 'Melo to go to a team where their franchise player and defensive anchor are both coming off of injury when he just went through that with J.R? Why would it be a perfect for 'Melo to go to a team where their franchise player and defensive anchor both have knee issues when he's been going through that with STAT for 2 or 3 years? Why would it be a perfect for 'Melo to go to a team where their best big has, of all things, feet issues? Why would it be better for anyone to leave Phil?
Katz just aggy that 'Melo got money, Phil, the G.O.A.T. offense, imminent cap space (Marc Gasol), a coach who is teaching defense more intensely than Kerr ever will, and a coach who has his team playing super hard for him because he's able to command high respect, a quality Kerr also doesn't have. No one wanted to see him get all of that. Lj has bummy Cleveland (the city isn't bummy, just the franchise). No franchise player in the East has what 'Melo has. #MeloWon
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