Melo to the Wolves?

If we got him for assets we don’t need, we’d have to do it — assuming it is a sign & trade, of course, otherwise they tell the Nougats to walk.

If we deal for Melo, my guess is that it happens for two reasons in combination:

1. Rambis & Kahn have reservations about how Beasley would work with Love, and see a better combination with Love & Melo.

2. If they are in contact with Rubio & his agent (and it’s hard to imagine they are not), and if Ricky gets really happy with the prospect of Melo on the team, and if the front office is confident that a Melo presence would bring Ricky over here in 2011…

…then they would do the deal for Melo.

What would we have that Denver would want that we could afford to give up?

A combo of Beasley, Flynn and Brewer would not hurt us much, in fact would probably be a net positive. Maybe we give a pick too, and take another contract back, but I’m guessing we’d want to do those three straight up, or maybe substitute Webster for Brewer. But I’d roll with Beasley, Flynn & Brewer, and maybe a filler like Koufos. Of course, I’m pretty sure that others on the board are more astute and can come up with other interesting combinations.

My guess is he goes to the Nets, however, because he likes that New York vibe.

I think that there is a really good chance that any Melo deal could involve the Wolves since the Nuggets are roughly $25 mil over the cap and will be looking to shed some salary (not surprisingly, the Kings, Nets, & Wolves have the 3 lowest payrolls in the NBA). By taking back a big one year contract, we could continue to add assets.

he would definitely bail after the season, but if we can get him on a Gasol-like trade then why not.

From a pure competitive standpoint, It seems that either of these teams would be ideal for Anthony in the long run. Both have solid players still on their rookie contracts which would mean that even with giving Melo a maximum deal, there would still be flexibility to acquire more assets in building a contender.

If we could sign Melo and bring Rubio here, we could trade Flynn, Beasley, Brewer and our roster would still have a lot of talent. No one else could offer a package of similar quality to Denver. After Kobe, Dirk, Duncan, and Nash depart in a couple years, who in the West will really be able to compete witth a Rubio-Melo-Love triple threat, with Ridnour, Webster, Johnson, Pekovic and Darko as complimentary players.

If Melo goes east, then he has to contend with Miami and Chicago for the next 5 -7 years.

I like that the Wolves accumulated so many young assets now, but I hope at some point they try to move 3 or 4 of those pieces for one or two real diamonds. I think in part Kevin Pritchard lost his job in Portland because he could never convert all his multiple young talents (Outlaw, Oden, Rudy, Webster, Batum, Rodriguez, etc.) into a superstud, and now the Blazers are looking at Roy and Aldridge as their cornerstones. Now the Blazers are losing all those other young guys for nothing.

Your pole sucks. It’s missing the option Only if it’s a S&T with at least a 3 year extension.Rubio/Love/Melo is an exciting core.

Personnel needed to keep Melo from bolting, he wants to leave Denver because he knows they can’t win it all, I don’t know if we even make the playoffs with Melo on our squad, it sucks but it is what it is. On a side note Orlando has the potential to become very dangerous, I mean they have the pieces to get Paul, which could easily help them land Melo