The Melo trade is a "slam dunk homerun where the he#$ do I sign" sort of deal. Danny would throw in his 86' title ring, Scal, and his first-born to get that done.
Something like Green, Wallace, Sully and THREE firsts is more like it. I'll pass on Lance at any cost.
It's a good idea, and I see the argument for NYK (Melo is never going to be the best player on a winning team); and I think that Melo and Rondo would play very well together. ...but Melo means way more to NYK than Green, Sully Bradley and Olynyk. He's the face of their franchise - and there's no one even close to being that face.
No matter what, okay, Kelly Olynyk will not become the face of the New York Knicks. He does not play a NYC type of game at all. Green is inconsistent, and Sullinger (although probably the best part of this proposed trade) is just not at the point where he has proven he can handle Melo's workload.
I think NYK says no...
Stephenson is mercifully Charlotte's problem. May he stay that way. Or just not be our problem. (Someone once whispered that he was very annoying. In my ear. While I was playing basketball. His breath smelled.)