OAO NBA Thread

Note to the Rookies and Sophmores playing tonight. Defense ISN'T ILLEGAL.

The Carmelo Anthony saga is over

Knicks gave up way too much considering he would have most likely signed with them as a free agent after the season

I am a Nets fan and they were offering too much also, though of course Anthony did not want to go there.


Denver will reportedly send Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Shelden Williams, Anthony Carter and Renaldo Balkman to New York.

The Nuggets get Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, Wilson Chandler, New York's 2014 first-round draft pick, Golden State's 2012 second-round pick and 2013 second-round pick along with $3 million in cash.

I realize the Knicks now have 2 of the Top 15 or Top 20 players in the NBA in Stoudemiere and Anthony. but they have nothing else. Billups is past his prime and the rest they got back was crap. They gave up 3 of their starters as well as a # 1 pick

Wow. So in retrospect, I'm guessing June 2009 was the Nuggets' chance to win the NBA title. They lost to the Lakers, but it seemed liked they'd be back. Nope.

And I guess THIS year's team had a chance to do something, but lost to San Antonio at home in early December on a controversial last second call. That was the official end of the "Do Something with Melo" era.

Had to laugh when, last week, Carmelo Anthony said: "my hat's off to me for the way I've handled this whole trade business".

Denver raped the Knicks in the ass with that trade. Is Isiah Thomas running things again or what?

It's not so much that Denver got the better of the deal.

It's that the Knicks would have most likely signed him as a free agent in the offseason. Why give up that much now?

If they had traded 2 of the 4 players they did now (plus the draft pick) then that would be fine, but not all that

Nets get Deron Williams the Jazz PG, arugably the best PG in the NBA

Gave up PG Devin Harris, Derrick Favors and a #1 pick

Fair trade for both teams, actually pretty even

Nets are much better off with this than what they were willing to give for Carmelo Anthony.

From what I've heard, he was willing to re-sign with Denver if the trade didn't go down because the next CBA may include pay scale cuts

Something that doesn't make sense.

It's the last day of regular season games for the NBA. The Kings are likely playing their last game in Sacaramento, against the Lakers. ESPN is carrying a game at 10:30 between the Clippers and Grizzlies. Why not, in the weeks leading up to this, change the schedule to put on a wothwhile game? I know everyone loves Blake Griffin, but the Grizzles aren't an attraction for ratings, and the Clippers stink. Who wouldn't love a possible riot from depressed Kings fans on national TV?

I am not a Knicks fan (nets are my team) but I don't hate them so figured I would watch (that and my dad was a big fan and he passed away 2 1/2 months ago so I was thinking of him)

Carmelo Anthony blew the game for them. In the last 90 seconds, he is stripped of the ball, then an offensive foul and then misses a 3 in the closing seconds when a 2 would have tied the game

Carmelo let a 12 point lead slip within 4 minutes of the 3rd quarter? Jermaine O'Neal rallied the Celtics. That's just sad. The whole team is to blame for this loss. The Knicks, as usual, fell apart in the 3rd Quarter, and the Celtics were good enough to make shots when they counted, and Ray Allen drained the game winner because of weak Knicks defense.

When you make 3 horrible plays on offense in the last minute and a half and you are arguably the best offensive player on the team (either he or Amare is) then to me it's on you

The Knicks defense played over it's heads the first 2 1/2 quarters. Turiaf was a defensive beast most of the game

The NBA finals have been great, all 5 games have been close

I am not a Mavs fan, but I hate Lebron James and the Heat

Not because he did not go to the Nets (my favorite team) or even the Knicks, but because he did not stay in Cleveland. But he was a free agent, so he had the right to go to Miami

but to have it announced on a 1 hour special called the Decision shows what an egotistical jackass he is

When he said he was taking his talents to South Beach, he should have said except in Crunch time

Agreed. The NBA finals (and NHL Finals too) have been spectacular.

Dan Gilbert is the happiest man on earth right now outside of the Mavs players and management

The choker Lebron does not get his ring

Awesome series MAVS win 4 games to 2 over the Heat

i think now is the perfect time for Jason Kidd to retire

He is 38 years old and while still a good player, he is on the downside of his career. He got his ring, it's time for him to go. He'll make the HOF