The title is a little misleading; a blog post from a homer, wannabe cblog qualifies as an "article" now? This is basically the equivalent of one of us proposing a trade idea in the forums, and this blog post is totally one-sided for the celtics.
It's like people take the Jared Dudley podcast and think Star players somehow want to buy into BS's team first-college ball system after being "the man" and playing me-first basketball their whole career's.
I'm not saying there isn't some reality where Melo gets disgruntled, sees the Celtics flourishing in his own conference, and would rather be a part of what we're doing over the current state of the Knicks, despite the fact that he would have to change the way he played his whole career; I'm saying that a lot of things have to fall into place for that to happen, and that even if that scenario played out perfectly for us, we would still need to give up more than what he proposed to outbid other fringe teams on the rise.
So let's collectively forget the "well if that's all we have to give up" stuff. That's the reason that the trade doesn't make sense: because we would have to give up more than that.
The one way I can see something of this nature happening is if Melo has a bad year (half season) and his value is further diminished, while Porzingis shows that he can play. As it is right now, Melo is their only star player and selling point to a massive market. Don't you think Phil would rather do the exact same thing we want to do and use Melo as their starting point to bring in other stars? I'm sure Phil would rather build for now than later, so a lot of this rides on the potential success of the euro kid in NYC, and even then, Melo would have to play poorly, feel threatened and replaced by Porzingis (not mesh with him), and not see him as the 1-A star that Phil may see him as moving forward.
Having said that, would you still make this trade if we had to give up someone you really like, Ala Mickey/R.J Hunter? Because if the Knicks are cleaning house and starting over, they're gonna want more than Bradley, Fatty, David Lee's corpse, and our mid-first round picks (that get worse as we improve).
Upon further review, i have to say that one area that I do agree with the author is the age factor. At 31, the Knicks may have to make a decision sooner than later, and if other teams don't want to take the risk of taking on a 31 yr old disgruntled vet, that is where we could pounce.
So essentially, Melo has to lose value to the point that we are the only team that- 1 wants Melo, 2- has assetts that NY would want, and 3- Melo wants to come to (no trade clause as others have said).
PS- sorry for the long post/rant
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