Carmelo to Oklahoma City confirmed.

[Hadoop]

Holy *******!

The West is gonna be fun this season.

 

[1976len]

5 Ways Melo’s Trade Makes Waves Throughout The NBA

1.The West is now officially a three-horse race
2.The San Antonio Spurs will do just enough to get to the 4 or 5 seed in the West
3. The Celtics and the Raptors just moved up a seed in the East
4. The MVP race just got even more interesting
5. LeBron will stay in the East

 

[le_sean]

How does anyone in the East move up a seed if the Knicks were one of the worst teams?

 

[Voight]

How does anyone in the East move up a seed if the Knicks were one of the worst teams?

Im guessing more wins since they are a one man team now with Porzee?

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Man the East is just a joke at this point

Its a two team battle for trip to finals at this point

 

[weastern bias]

5 Ways Melo’s Trade Makes Waves Throughout The NBA

1.The West is now officially a three-horse race
2.The San Antonio Spurs will do just enough to get to the 4 or 5 seed in the West

The Spurs are still the 2nd best team in the West, HOU and OKC will take time to figure themselves out and SAS sleepwalks to 60+ wins every year

 

[Aladyyn]

Man the East is just a joke at this point

Its a two team battle for trip to finals at this point

Cavs and Wizards?

 

[Blitzkrug]

Cavs/Wizards with the Celtics probably injecting themselves into the conversation. Though one of those teams really has a shot at contending for the championship.

Meanwhile out West you have the Warriors, Spurs, Rockets and Thunder all with legitimate claims at contending for a title. And then a nasty underbelly of the T-Wolves, Jazz, Clippers, Griz, Pelicans, Blazers and Nuggets are fighting for the remaining playoff spots.

Talk about a bloodbath.

 

[Cassano]

OKC will probably be 1st round exit again.

 

[Virtanen18]

OKC will probably be 1st round exit again.

Think they'll finish 1st and at least win a round.

 

[Aladyyn]

Cavs/Wizards with the Celtics probably injecting themselves into the conversation. Though one of those teams really has a shot at contending for the championship.

Meanwhile out West you have the Warriors, Spurs, Rockets and Thunder all with legitimate claims at contending for a title. And then a nasty underbelly of the T-Wolves, Jazz, Clippers, Griz, Pelicans, Blazers and Nuggets are fighting for the remaining playoff spots.

Talk about a bloodbath.

NBA needs 1-16 seeding in the worst way.

 

[Voight]

Cavs/Wizards with the Celtics probably injecting themselves into the conversation. Though one of those teams really has a shot at contending for the championship.

Meanwhile out West you have the Warriors, Spurs, Rockets and Thunder all with legitimate claims at contending for a title. And then a nasty underbelly of the T-Wolves, Jazz, Clippers, Griz, Pelicans, Blazers and Nuggets are fighting for the remaining playoff spots.

Talk about a bloodbath.

The sad thing is this Warriors core is guaranteed to stay together until at least 2019 when Klay can be a free agent, but who knows maybe Myers will find a way to keep him.

 

[Cassano]

$28 mil option will most likely be picked up.

He had 3 assists all series.

Benched towards the end of the series.

Missed open shot after open shot.

I'm absolutely stunned that a team with 3 ballhogs didn't work out.

 

[Avs_19]

Oh it's only going to get better from here.......

 

[Blitzkrug]

OKC is screwed beyond belief.

George is probably out the door already to Los Angeles (or Philly maybe?), they're stuck with that boat anchor of a contract with Melo.

Might honestly want to look at trading Russ before he starts to fall off since they have almost no chance of contending with that salary structure.

 

[GKJ]

OKC is screwed beyond belief.

George is probably out the door already to Los Angeles (or Philly maybe?), they're stuck with that boat anchor of a contract with Melo.

Might honestly want to look at trading Russ before he starts to fall off since they have almost no chance of contending with that salary structure.

They're trying to wait for Durant to come back. Don't want to go off the deep end like Cleveland did when LeBron left. But in the NBA, if you're treading water, you're better off being just dead.

 

[Voight]

OKC is screwed beyond belief.

George is probably out the door already to Los Angeles (or Philly maybe?), they're stuck with that boat anchor of a contract with Melo.

Might honestly want to look at trading Russ before he starts to fall off since they have almost no chance of contending with that salary structure.

PG is either staying in OKC or going to LA. Nowhere else.

They're trying to wait for Durant to come back. Don't want to go off the deep end like Cleveland did when LeBron left. But in the NBA, if you're treading water, you're better off being just dead.

Correct. I fully believe KD will be back within 2-3 years, especially when GS eventually loses Klay or Draymond.

 

[Reality Check]

Oh it's only going to get better from here.......

If Carmelo won't come off the bench now, I can't imagine how much of a malcontent he would have been if the Pistons drafted him in '03.

Darko flamed out in epic proportions. But at least he didn't hurt the team's chemistry.

 

[dahrougem2]

Lmao OKC gonna miss the playoffs next year and Melo gonna have the same excuse "there is no system" even though he can't play in any system not called ISO ball.

Dude is done. He can hardly score anymore, can't defend, can't run, he's finished. As soon as his contract expires with OKC I honestly can't see him getting anything other than maybe mid level exception contracts

 

[rent free]

shouldn't pick up his option

 

[DingDongCharlie]

shouldn't pick up his option

I think it's a player option. Melo isn't going to test free agency with 28 million sitting on the table already

 

[rent free]

I think it's a player option. Melo isn't going to test free agency with 28 million sitting on the table already

Oh then that makes sense.