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Jazz Rank 20th In Destination For Free Agents

MeloTheJazzKiller

MeloTheJazzKiller

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Our NY papers ranked in order how the teams are regarded for alluring draft picks to their teams.
30 being worst, 1 being best.

#30 was the Pelicans, #1 was Dallas (supportive owner, elite coach, young Luke and Porzingis...)

The Jazz clocked in as the 20th worst place for the players to go. Here's what is said about the Jazz:

"Talented core, very good coach countered by snow and the Church of Latter
Day Saints more prominent than the arena. Players who get there like it."

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Out of 30 teams, the Jazz is 20th place free agents would consider going.
By the way the Knicks were ranked 4th.
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Wes Mantooth said:
Not one of the 30 has interest in signing Melo.
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If teams were allowed to sign players for end of season runs like they do in baseball, I guarantee you the Jazz would take Melo in an instant. The guy won an NCAA championship and Olympic championship. Only a very small handful of human beings have done that. Even LeBron couldn't pull off that incredible feat.
 
MeloTheJazzKiller said:
If teams were allowed to sign players for end of season runs like they do in baseball, I guarantee you the Jazz would take Melo in an instant. The guy won an NCAA championship and Olympic championship. Only a very small handful of human beings have done that. Even LeBron couldn't pull off that incredible feat.
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Melo was the reason the Jazz beat the Thunder last year. They have no interest, I assure you.
 
Also, who was the last big free agent who went to the Knicks? Was that Amare Stoudemire with a micro-fracture, no insurance policy and a $100MM contract?

And Dallas? They couldn't put a worthwhile free agent next to Dirk Nowitzki for like 6 years after they won a championship.

Free agency is tough for everyone. Winning and money matter more than market for the vast majority of players.
 
MeloTheJazzKiller said:
So you would have no interest in a guy who averages 24 a game. Got it. That's why the Jazz have never won a Championship.
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Have you happened to notice that not a single team in the league has shown interest in signing Carmelo? He's a mid-range scorer with limited efficiency and is a complete defensive liability. His best days are long behind him.
 
I lived in New York for a year. I get the appeal of it. It's a tough market to be an athlete though, and the ownership and front office there have been a complete debacle for the past decade. The most notable thing the Knicks have done in the last 20 years was get in fisticuffs with the Miami Heat in the playoffs. The Knicks have a long way to go. There's a reason that Porzingis asked out.
 
Catchall said:
Have you happened to notice that not a single team in the league has shown interest in signing Carmelo?
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There are a number of reasons why Melo isn't getting a look lately:
1. his wife La La is a known diva. No organization wants to deal with her.
2. there's a strong hint of racism here with Carmelo not being signed. Kevin Love goes anywhere he wants but Carmelo can't? You tell me what's behind that.
3. team's don't want to disappoint Melo's high standards. The guy has won both an NCAA championship and gold in the Olympics. Teams know they can't live up to Melo's high standards and goals.
 
MeloTheJazzKiller said:
There are a number of reasons why Melo isn't getting a look lately:
1. his wife La La is a known diva. No organization wants to deal with her.
2. there's a strong hint of racism here with Carmelo not being signed. Kevin Love goes anywhere he wants but Carmelo can't? You tell me what's behind that.
3. team's don't want to disappoint Melo's high standards. The guy has won both an NCAA championship and gold in the Olympics. Teams know they can't live up to Melo's high standards and goals.
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Yeah, keep telling yourself that. A team like Houston that needs all the offensive options they can get to help James Harden and whose best friend in the league Chris Paul happens to play there wouldn't give him minutes. It's been crickets for Melo ever since.
 
MeloTheJazzKiller said:
Uhh, clearly you have not heard of Jason Kidd. Uhh, the guy had two stints with Dallas.
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Okay, fair enough, though Jason Kidd was 36 when he signed back in Dallas. It was the end of his career. Kind of like the Jazz signing Joe Johnson.

Dallas also signed Lamar Odom at the end of Odom's career too.
 
Catchall said:
New York ...It's a tough market to be an athlete though, .
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I agree it is an incredibly difficult place to play. The darn place recently ate up and spit out Odell Beckham, for God's sake. And, yes, the Knick organization is a lunatic asylum with the patients running the place.

But things are different this coming off season. We have room for TWO max free agents and we are guaranteed a top draft pick. Put on the Duke/UCF game right now. We literally have the pick of the litter. Any guy out there we can have. Even that nine foot monster on UCF. Free agents definitely would come here due to our current advantageous situation.
 
The Knicks have had a high lottery pick for as long as I can remember. NY's odds of getting Zion Williamson are what--1 out of 5, or 1 out of 6? The only other franchise-changing player in this draft is Morant, and that's not a given. He needs talent around him.

If NY can sign KD and/or Kyrie, then that's a coup, but even that doesn't put NY ahead of Milwaukee or Philadelphia.
 
Catchall said:
If NY can sign KD and/or Kyrie, then that's a coup, but even that doesn't put NY ahead of Milwaukee or Philadelphia.
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Uhh, next year when we field Durant, Kyrie, Zion, Mitchell Robinson, and Dennis Smith Jr, the poets and songwriters will be writing glorious odes to that team for the next two thousand years.
 
The forum isn’t under any legal code with regard to conduct. I do not understand for the life of me why idiots like this haven’t yet been banned.

I invite punishment for this post as this is somehow more against the rules than everything this ******** says.
 
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