by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:04 pm
Also, he believe Carmelo Anthony is getting traded this summer:
I don't see him spending his entire career in Denver, much less next season, and there's a 98.7 percent chance he'll become the focal point of every trade rumor this summer. For instance, what if the Grizzlies get the No. 2 pick and decide they want to take hometown kid Derrick Rose even though they already have three point guards on their roster. If you're Denver, do you trade Melo for Mike Conley Jr., Hakim Warrick and Mike Miller, chop a few million off your payroll and hope Miller and Linas Kleiza can replace Melo's numbers (which, by the way, they would)? If you're Memphis, wouldn't you sell tickets with Melo, Rose and Rudy Gay? In other words, aren't those two teams a match? What if Minnesota got the No. 2 pick? If you're Denver, would you offer Melo to the T-Wolves for that pick (plus expiring contracts) and take Rose? See where I'm going here? If the Nuggets can turn Melo into a point guard, cap space and/or something else, don't they have to think about it?
I can say, quite categorically, that if Carmelo got traded for other people's shit, you might as well move the Nuggets and Avalanche out of town, because the Pepsi Center will be burned to the ground.
I don't have the exact stats, but the average Nuggets team before he came here was 9-102. Why are Nuggets fans not going apoplectic that they are losing in the first round each year? Because it is the WESTERN CONFERENCE. Christ, the Suns haven't even escaped into a finals yet, and their team is about a billion times better than Denver. The Nuggets would win 65 games each year in the east. It's all relative.
But my opinions about any baseball, hockey or basketball team except for the Blue Jays, Flyers and Nuggets are pretty bad as well, so no harm here.
Also, he believe Carmelo Anthony is getting traded this summer:
[quote]I don't see him spending his entire career in Denver, much less next season, and there's a 98.7 percent chance he'll become the focal point of every trade rumor this summer. For instance, what if the Grizzlies get the No. 2 pick and decide they want to take hometown kid Derrick Rose even though they already have three point guards on their roster. If you're Denver, do you trade Melo for Mike Conley Jr., Hakim Warrick and Mike Miller, chop a few million off your payroll and hope Miller and Linas Kleiza can replace Melo's numbers (which, by the way, they would)? If you're Memphis, wouldn't you sell tickets with Melo, Rose and Rudy Gay? In other words, aren't those two teams a match? What if Minnesota got the No. 2 pick? If you're Denver, would you offer Melo to the T-Wolves for that pick (plus expiring contracts) and take Rose? See where I'm going here? If the Nuggets can turn Melo into a point guard, cap space and/or something else, don't they have to think about it?[/quote]
I can say, quite categorically, that if Carmelo got traded for other people's shit, you might as well move the Nuggets and Avalanche out of town, because the Pepsi Center will be burned to the ground.
I don't have the exact stats, but the average Nuggets team before he came here was 9-102. Why are Nuggets fans not going apoplectic that they are losing in the first round each year? Because it is the WESTERN CONFERENCE. Christ, the Suns haven't even escaped into a finals yet, and their team is about a billion times better than Denver. The Nuggets would win 65 games each year in the east. It's all relative.
But my opinions about any baseball, hockey or basketball team except for the Blue Jays, Flyers and Nuggets are pretty bad as well, so no harm here.