Last night the Carmelo Anthony drama finally ended after 7 months of frustration when the Nuggets star was traded to the Knicks after being unhappy with his situation in Denver.
Various amounts of moving pieces in this 3 team deal.
Knicks receive: Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Shelden Williams, Anthony Carter, and Renaldo Balkman from the Nuggets. As well as Corey Brewer from the T-wolves.
Nuggets receive: Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danillo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, and a 2014 1st round pick from the Knicks.
T-Wolves receive: Anthony Randolph and Eddy Curry.
Lots of analysts continue to complain about the boatload of talent the Knicks had to give up in order to land Melo and contest that the Knicks have hurt themselves. Most of those comments however are misguided in my eyes because of the following.
Felton vs Billups - Though Billups may be up in age he still averages about the same amount of points as Felton and has tremendous championship experience, While Felton was never part of the Knicks long term plans in the first place.
Gallinari and Chandler were very nice players for the Knicks organization, but Carmelo has more value than both if them, as he is a 30 point-a-night player. Renaldo Balkman was a former Knick who played excellent for his time at MSG, will fill out the bench with Williams, Brewer, and Carter. Mozgov was never any good besides a couple decent games, the Knicks won't miss him at all.
Bottomline: The Knicks added a major superstar to team up with Amare, despite giving up some talent to get him they replaced the gap pretty well. Also opening the door for Chris Paul, Deron Williams, or Dwight Howard to join the Knicks next year thus completing the master piece of the "Knicks Big 3" Hey, NY might even make some noise in the playoffs this year.
Melo Knick debut , tomorrow at 7 vs Milwaukee
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