Mayo could bring Melo to NY

[A.E]

While Nets stall out, Knicks and Grizzlies talk three-team ‘Melo trade
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When Knicks GM Donnie Walsh told the New York Daily News:

“I don’t have anything going with Denver,” Walsh told The News Wednesday. “Nothing.”

That laughing you heard was people around the NBA, because nobody believed it.

With words like “stalled” used around the Nets efforts to get Carmelo Anthony (due not to the Nets but the Nuggets hesitation), the Knicks are still there. New York is still the place Carmelo Anthony wants to go, and the Knicks are still working on their options. Sure, maybe Walsh has plausible deniability built in, but everybody knows the Knicks are working hard to find a deal that Denver will listen to (since clearly Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari are chopped liver to the Nuggets brass). Deals such as trading Anthony Randolph for a first round pick.

Or getting in a third team such as Memphis involved, which ESPN’s Chris Broussard tweeted about:

Knicks have reached out to Memphis about sending OJ Mayo to DEN in 3-team deal that would send Carmelo Anthony to New York, sources say.

If Memphis is going to trade Mayo and focus on keeping both Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph, that might not be a bad plan.

I’m fairly sure the Nuggets would still prefer some variation of the Nets offer, where they get Devin Harris and Derrick Favors and multiple first round picks. But the way the Nuggets have hesitated and tried to add to that deal, they may let the entire thing slide through their fingers.

If so, the Knicks are still there and working it.

-HBT

This seemingly make way more sense for the Nuggets and c'mon...it's pretty much Knicks or bust for Carmelo at this point. All the Knicks are doing is trying to get him a little earlier than when they will manage to sign him during the offseason. Put Melo in a the garden and suddenly the Knicks are fucking back...big time.

For Denver, this deal gives them a pretty big name star in OJ Mayo...certainly a player to be excited about. I don't know how thrilled OJ would be about having to rebuild Denver but I'm sure he'd get the "we will spend money to win now" speech from ownership. Denver will most likely want Mayo to be willing to re-sign before a deal...a fact that can surely be a deal-breaker. But still, the Nuggets get an All-Star face to slap up on billboards and on the cover of magazines.....rather than a handful of mediocre & unproven talent from New Jersey.

 

[VC15]

OJ Mayo is an "all-star face"?

This topic fails miserably.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

OJ Mayo is an "all-star face"?

This topic fails miserably.

Instead of trying to act like a smartass all the time why don't you at least try to provide something to a topic other than humiliation?

 

[$tunna]

OJ can still drop 20 a game depending on the team around him

 

[Houshmazode]

Denver doesn't want Mayo. He won't be part of the deal.

 

[cruzg24]

This would be a pretty good deal for all teams. It also doesnt have as many moving pieces as that Nets trade that they put together and the Nuggets get some big time cap relief in Curry if they do trade Carmelo.