Carmelo Anthony still unsure of New Jersey

jim1961 · Jan 12, 2011

Rockets_4_life said:

Melo should go ahead and wait until the summer and sign a max contract with this Knicks, I mean why harm your future team by costing them assets...
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Yes, that would seem the logical move except:

1) He has already burned his bridges with the Nuggets and (imo) is starting to with some of his teammates as well.

2) He can still go to the Knicks in the summer if he doesnt to sign an extension.

3) If he doesnt sign an extension, and gets traded somewhere other than NY, the team he goes to for rental for the remainder of this season wont deplete the team he is planning on signing with this summer (NY).

So as I see it, and understand it, as long as he isnt traded to NY, he satisfies his need to get out of Denver without hurting the team he really wants to go to.

withmustard · Jan 12, 2011

Prince said:

It's ok to rent Melo. then while he's here, we'll make him in love with our city. Ger er done Morey!
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on the flip side, he could sabotage us to help the Knicks by a couple of picks in the season. Then again, he'd have no reason to in the playoffs.

J.R. · Jan 14, 2011

Carmelo to Nets: Sell me on New Jersey

DENVER – As the Denver Nuggets and New Jersey Nets move closer to completing their complicated trade, Carmelo Anthony(notes) has told close associates the Nets still need to sell him on signing an extension with them, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

“ ‘Melo can’t have cold feet now,” said one organizational source involved in the talks. “It’s too far down the line. He’s the one who wanted this.”

Anthony hasn’t ruled out committing to the Nets, but he wants a clearer vision of their plans for the future. Anthony’s preference is to wait to see what other trade options become available for him, the sources said

Nevertheless, multiple sources involved in the proposed three-team trade between the Nuggets, Nets and Detroit Pistons expect the deal to be completed next week.

Anthony has sought a trade from the Nuggets since refusing to sign a three-year, $64 million extension last summer. He preferred to go to the New York Knicks or Chicago Bulls, but neither team has presented the Nuggets an offer that rivals the Nets’ assets.

After the Nuggets’ victory over the Miami Heat on Thursday, Anthony said he will still be wearing a Denver uniform when the team plays the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday.

“I’ll be here against San Antonio [on Sunday],” Anthony also said.

Asked whether he planned to be playing for the Nuggets when they face the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday, he said, “You just keep asking after every game and I’ll let you know.”

Anthony admitted the ongoing speculation about the trade has weighed on his teammates.

“I’m sure they think about it,” he said. “If they tell you that they don’t, they’d be lying. I’ve been with these guys, most of them, seven, eight years. We talk. We communicate. I just want to tell them whatever happens, it’s going to happen. But as long as I’m here, I just want everybody to just play and just have fun.”
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