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Should the Blazers puruse Carmelo Anthony?

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Boob-No-More said:
Does anyone else think opening his list up first to two more teams (HOU being the first) that can't offer the Knicks shit for Carmelo actually works in the Blazers favor?

The Knicks best offer from HOU was Ryan Anderson - too old, injury prone, plays same position as Porzingis, grotesquely overpaid with three more years left on his contract.

CLE won't give up that tasty draft pick they got from the Celtics because they know they will need it to start their rebuild when LeBron jumps ship. They have NOTHING else that a rebuild team wants. While Kevin Love is better than Ryan Anderson, he's also too old to for their timeline and also plays the same position as Porzingis.

OKC is the most pathetic of the three. The only hope they have of even matching salaries are Kanter and Adams - who play the same position as Porzingis and Hernangomez, the two cornerstones of NYK's rebuilding effort. OKC already lacks depth. So anything they give up further guts an already severely gutted team. Plus, it's fucking Cow Town USA.

Maybe this was the plan all all along. Carmelo is smart and wants to win. If it's obvious no one else can offer shit, it will give Neil more leverage to give up as little as possible. This may make it possible to include Meyers Leonard as part of the package (centered around Harkless) instead of other assets Neil would rather keep.

Who knows, but at the very least, seeing what the other three teams can (or more accurately cannot) offer only makes the Portland package look that much more attractive. Scott Perry isn't Kevin "Bitter" Pritchard. He will do everything possible to get the best package he can for his team, and he knows now, more than ever, that Portland can easily blow anything the others can offer completely out of the water.

I really think this is going to happen and it's going to happen soon. And when it does, I can't wait to hear the HOU fans cry and bitch about how little POR had to give up to get him (as if they ever even had a chance).

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theprunetang said:
I sense a fight coming up between you and @SwissBlazer .
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Natebishop3 said:
If I'm Dame and CJ, I'm having a hard time not taking this personally though.

Melo is basically saying that he'd rather play with Russ/PG13 or LeBron/Love/IT.
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Not surprising he'd rather play with LeBron. It almost guarantees to at least get him to the Finals.

As for him opening up the amount of teams, it's what I posted a few days ago. The people I spoke with indicated this was next for two reasons. One, more teams would hopefully get HOU (1st) and then CLE (2nd) to offer more so he could go to his first or second choices. Because of tax and repeater tax issues, some of those would be quite costly along with those teams really not having much to trade.

What is disheartening is that OKC is on the list before POR. If Portland does get on the list, look for something that is very similar salary wise even though because due to the size of the contract, you can be quite a way apart in salary and still make it work. Harkless would be almost certainly be included. POR would like Turner to be the other big salary piece and then someone like Pat which help them out Cap wise. Doubtful NY wants Turner much more than they want Ryan Anderson though. In that case, Harkless, Leonard, and expiring Davis and Connaughton would be very close in salary. Just some thoughts.
 
I’m guessing that Melo wants to be traded before training camp.
 
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