Hoops

Carmelo to depart Rockets

Why would anyone let him do that on their team though? The guy still thinks he's a superstar, he hates coming off the bench and even so he still shoots badly, plays poor defence and is too much of a liability to his team when on the court.

The Rockets even with a close friend of his on the roster have had enough of him after just 10 games and have banished him from the team. What NBA team is now going to be stupid enough to sign him? A contender won't touch him he's a cancer why would a crap team sign him when they would prefer to blood their youngsters?

What;s really odd about all this is the Rockets are refusing to waive Melo. They've said he won't play another game for them, they've banished him from the team, they haven't suspended him yet are refusing to release him despite him being a minimum wage player.

The guy always does well with his contracts he always gets every cent (still getting paid $27M by the Hawks this season) he had a no trade clause in his previous contract does he perhaps have a no cut clause in this one? I've never heard of no cut clauses before but the whole thing is very strange.

The talk seems to be he will stay on the Rockets roster but away from the team still getting paid and may ask to be released later in the season when teams might become more desperate for his services. Unlikely but as of right now his NBA career is practically over, the LA LeBron's have already ruled out signing him if he becomes available.

A lot of people are suggesting Philadelphia. Since Sixers gave up two key rotation players in the trade and only got one back. They do seem like they could use more depth.

Carmelo to be the man at mornington next year.
Seriously though regarding nbl I think the real melo (trimble) is more valuable in today's style of play than carmelo.

It's a pretty damn big fall.

I mean it's not even about the money now. Usually ex-superstars arent wanted because they're asking to much for what they're worth.

But with Melo; he can come cheap..its just the literal fact that he just cant contribute to a team/add value to a team. No team wants them on their team.

Normally I'd say no, but Melo is buddies with a bunch of guys... I wouldn't call the Lakers "contenders", but his friendship with LeBron might see something (disastrous) happen there.

Pretty sure hes going to Cairns or Wollongong.

I would guess none. But you try to low ball him and CP3 would likely spite-leave similar to Wade a few years back. I would assume this deal was in place when he first arrived.

CP3 didnt have to go for it. Also he so calledfight for increased max salary, was in part for older players bracket which just ends up hurting teams in the final years when a clearing declining player willbe on the books for 40mil.

Morey has blown the story up you dolts. Melo is staying

CP3 dug his heels in for the max. Should've discounted himself to retain Ariza. Another superstar fool who will end up with no ring.

They had to 'hand' CP3 that amount or he would have gone elsewhere. If Morey had his way he would have retained Ariza and MaB, but ultimately players like CP3 wont make the sacrafice for the chance to win it all and then make that money up on the back end.

For Ariza ^^

If the Rockets matched the $15mil from Phoenix, it would have actually cost them around $60mil after the taxes considering how far over the cap they are, he's good but that's absurd.

The guys a joke. I reckon China would be a good option, at least he'd get to shoot 30 shots a night

Will probably go the Iverson route and basically be forced out of league due to being too ball reliant.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he plays for Team USA though, always seems to play better in International tournaments

As noted above he came cheap so no big loss.

Where the Rockets really fudged up bigtime and I mean bigtime is not getting Ariza back. He was a huge for them last year.

I think the Rockets tried too aggressively to get better over the offseason and it might have made them worse.

With that being said they didnt have it easy trying to allocate the spend and fit everyone in with CP3 and Capella asking for money.

D'Antoni was happy to get Melo, you can read why between the lines in a couple of podcasts, not because he likes him but for revenge. In New York when the two of them had their differences management took Melo's side as he was the superstar and was worth $$ to the organization, this time around Mike knew what he says goes, and now he gets the joy of saying I told you so and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Chris Paul and Melo are good friends Paul was a FA this off-season maybe part of the deal of him re-signing was figuring out a way to land Melo. Now that Paul's locked up Melo becomes expendable.

A lot of deals get done like this in the NBA look at Tyson Chandler being released early by the Suns to sign with the Lakers. James Jones owed LeBron a favour for extending his playing career as long as he did and the Suns didn't intend to buyout Chandler until around the February trade deadline but LeBron called in the favour and Jones obliged.

I wouldn't also discount the likelihood Melo and D'Antoni probably had a barney again like they did at the Knicks. I'm sure D'Antoni wouldn't have been overly thrilled about Melo joining the team.

Houston paid nothing for him, now he'll go and at worst it might have cost them a win or two, big deal. I can't stand Melo but it was worth a shot for Houston. Turns out all the people who say defense doesn't matter in the NBA anymore were wrong, he can't guard a chair anymore and it showed.

I can just picture all the NBL marketing build up to his opening game, where he would knock down 4 of 20 long range 2s.

You watch houston go on a winning streak when he is given the boot.
Whoever made the decision to get him in the first place should also get the chop.
Every basketball fan can see that anthony is disruptive and doesn't fit into the way the game is played now. Sad thing is for him he still thinks he's a superstar.
How sad

If they have brains then no. Cancerous player. So that rules out everyone except JvG.

We spoke to Homicide last night and he told us about how he wants to return to the NBL and when we asked him about which teams he would play for he said "I wouldn't mind going down and shaking up Adelaide"

Its on the website and iTunes

Also check out the trailer of the documentary he is in DOIN' IT IN THE PARK: PICK-UP BASKETBALL, NYC

That thing looks awesome