What team has improved the most?

[cheguevara]

Out of the choices, New York. They're not le contenders this year and maybe won't be anytime soon. But they added the best player of any players moved mid-season (duly noting others might argue Deron Williams), they added a championship veteran PG as an underrated part of the deal, and now they have two bonafide superstar scorers. There defense will lack like it always has, but they made the most drastic improvement of any of the teams listed.

[TampaDude]

Clearly, it's the Thunder now. They had always been a good shooting team, but Perkins gives them that solid interior D they had been lacking.

[Keyser soze]

well well well

looks like I was spot on once again

The knicks have won 7 in a row and are one of the hottest teams in the league, having won their last two without Stoudemire. They are easily better than they were before the trade. How were you "spot on", again?

[Bito Corleone]

Keyser, the Knicks are sitting on a record of 42-28, and 14-12 (even with said 7-game win streak) with Melo. They were 28-26 without him. I wouldn't say that they are clearly better.

Of course the move is good for them in the long run, but they shouldn't have given up that much of their roster just to bump up their record by that small of a margin when they most likely would have gotten him this summer anyway.

[Axe Murderer]

Keyser, the Knicks are sitting on a record of 42-28, and 14-12 (even with said 7-game win streak) with Melo. They were 28-26 without him. I wouldn't say that they are clearly better.

Of course the move is good for them in the long run, but they shouldn't have given up that much of their roster just to bump up their record by that small of a margin when they most likely would have gotten him this summer anyway.

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[Hoops Czar]

Definitely NOT Atlanta.... They wreak.

[Keyser soze]

Keyser, the Knicks are sitting on a record of 42-28, and 14-12 (even with said 7-game win streak) with Melo. They were 28-26 without him. I wouldn't say that they are clearly better.

Of course the move is good for them in the long run, but they shouldn't have given up that much of their roster just to bump up their record by that small of a margin when they most likely would have gotten him this summer anyway.

There's no chance Melo would have waited until Free agency. He was signing that 65 million dollar extension with someone. He said recently (I think a few days ago) that he thought he was going to be a Net for most of the trade-rumor weeks/months. That tells you all you need to know.

Also, yes, the Knicks are only 14-12 since the Melo trade but they are 8-4 against winning/playoff teams. (before the trade they were well below .500 against winning teams) They had a horrible stretch where they went 1-9 (losing mostly to bad/losing/non-playoff teams during that span of games) and clearly lacked cohesion/unity. However, since then, Melo has been on fire, Billups has played quite well, and the Knicks have looked like a different team.

And Finally, the trade clearly made the Knicks better for the long run. They have two superstars to build around for the future . . . Denver has none. I'll make a bet with anyone on here that the Knicks get a lot closer to a championship over the next 3-5 years then the Nuggets ever do. I'd even go so far as to say that the Knicks will almost definitely win a playoff series before the Nuggets do.

[tlongII]

It's definitely the Blazers. Not close really.

[DMC]

Has to be Denver. They didn't gain from what they acquired as much as they did from what they shed. Not having that crybaby mother er Carmelo has really gotten the team galvanized. It's a tougher squad than I remember them being in the past, and Karl is a happy man. That's what counts.

Dallas did ok too, but injuries have softened the impact Chandler brought to the team.

OKC with Perkins... (forget Nate), that's huge for them too, but I still have to say Denver over all of them.

[Yorae]

Picked OKC but it sure is Denver now.