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You need more than 3/5ths of a starting 5 and some d-leaguers.
NY would suck hard and have no help (picks) on the horizon.
Felton/Amare/Melo would still be in tact and that is a very solid trio. Is it MIA or LA good? No. But it is solid.
NY would suck hard and have no help (picks) on the horizon.
Guy, you are overstating this. There are such things as 3 team & 4 team trades. NY would not be the only one involved.
NY would suck hard and have no help (picks) on the horizon.
You are understating it, softpedaling it as it were. It doesn't matter how many teams are involved, NY is going to have to strip their cupboard even barer than it is now to get Anthony.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_yl...ynuggets092710
Nets constructing new deal for Anthony
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
12 minutes ago
As talks on a four-way deal that included Utah and Charlotte lost momentum on Monday, Denver and New Jersey were constructing contingency plans with several other teams to keep alive hopes of a trade that would send Carmelo Anthony(notes) to the Nets, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
New Jersey and Denver were moving from including Utah’s Andrei Kirilenko(notes) and Charlotte’s Boris Diaw(notes) in the trade packages, front-office sources said, and finding eager trade partners in both the Eastern and Western conferences. Denver and New Jersey were trying to line up new scenarios that still would result with Anthony in New Jersey and Derrick Favors(notes) and Nets draft picks in Denver, sources said.
More From Yahoo! Sports StaffRaptors among teams pursuing Dampier Sep 27, 2010 Nelson leaves with record Sep 23, 2010 After what felt like momentum early in the morning with the original four-team plan, Denver kept engaging more teams in talks, and the Charlotte and Utah part of the proposal began to lose traction.
One of the biggest obstacles with cutting a deal with the Nuggets, league executives said, continues to be the peculiar and unclear power structure of the Denver front office. What had been the case under the previous regime has carried over with new vice president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri, the owner’s son, Josh Kroenke, and adviser Bret Bearup: No one talking to the Nuggets is sure who’s in charge, who’s making the decision and who can get everyone in agreement.
Anthony arrived at Denver’s training camp for media day on Monday, but didn’t engage in much of the normal promotional shots for the team’s Al ude television network and game-night operations, a source told Yahoo! Sports’ Marc Spears.
The Nuggets star had hoped a deal would’ve been in place before he reported for the start of camp, a league source said, but decided against openly criticizing the organization in his media remarks. Instead, he was noncommittal about his future in Denver. He can become a free agent at the end of the season and so far has rejected a three-year, $65 million contract extension.
“There’s been a lot of speculation, a lot of rumors going on this summer about where I’m going to end up, the Nuggets want to trade me, I want to be traded,” Anthony said. “That’s for my team and front office to discuss. I’m here to focus on basketball and training camp.”
Meanwhile, the uncertainty that’s surrounding teams involved in the talks is starting to take a predictable toll on egos and emotions at training camps. Even if a deal for Anthony never materializes, New Jersey coach Avery Johnson has serious repairs to make with Nets point guard Devin Harris(notes), a league source told Yahoo! Sports on Monday.
Harris had been a huge advocate for Johnson with former Nets officials by endorsing the hiring of Johnson over the summer, and a source says Harris is feeling “a little put off” that the coach is so quickly looking to send him out of New Jersey as part of a trade for Anthony.
As part of the original four-team trade proposal, Harris was destined for Charlotte and wasn’t terribly enthusiastic about the move. And that was especially true after Johnson had spent the summer selling Harris so hard on how much he needed him to help sell the coach’s program in New Jersey.
Johnson and Harris had an up-and-down relationship in Dallas, but Harris believed the Nets desperately needed Johnson’s discipline and structure, and pushed hard with former president Rod Thorn for Johnson’s hiring. Harris, 27, came to the Nets in 2008 as part of the Jason Kidd(notes) trade with Dallas. He had his best season as a pro in 2008-09 when he averaged 21.3 points and 6.9 assists.
Yahoo! Sports’ NBA reporter Marc J. Spears contributed to this story.
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