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The Knicks rep for being a dumbass organization is truly deserved, and that move was a big reason why. If we never pick up the option for Billups and just amnesty Amare, we still get Chandler and we get Chris Paul the next year(iirc he would've been available). We would've made a finals or 2 with that team. Despite bungling the whole amnesty situation, we still manage to have some playoff success, in spite of our second best player being useless for years.... then we make the Bargnani trade. More dumb shyt right after our best playoff run in over a decade. Bargnani was a net negative who was on the verge of being cut, and we trade a first for him (iirc correctly our boy Leon Rose convinced Dolan to make the trade). A first that could've been used in a trade for Kyle Lowry a fee years later smh 
Billups was CAA too: a lot of the Knicks stupidity can be traced to Leon Rose wanting to make a deal and the connection between CAA, Chase Bank, and MSG.3 players and 2 picks for a top 10 player in his prime is not bad at all in hindsight. I'd make that trade all day too. Picking up Billups option then using an amnesty on him was peak stupidity. Amare was got injured proving that his knees were indeed a ticking time bomb, and it was looking like we'd be stuck and handicapped with his massive contract.... Then the Knicks were given a gift by God, an amnesty to keep in our back pocket in case Amare couldn't get back on the court, and they wasted it immediately like the dumbasses they truly were
I really could go on, but the point is the Melo trade didn't really fukk us up, everything we did after accomplished that. We wasted that mans prime by doing dumb shyt, firing coach after coach, yet the only time fans had smoke for any of the moves the FO made during that time is when Lin got replaced by Raymond Felton- a man who did more than a adequate job of replacing him- because they thought Melo was jealous of Lin ( not us on this board though for the most part). Truly disgusting, we didnt deserve Melo on god.
Fournier fits perfect on that team and Randle will actually play every game unlike some of their front court players.
Waste the end of Lebron’s career and a healthy AD year because Russ is an expiring contract…
I’m assuming they’d buy him out.It was a bad trade…. By the time they were done they had no cap room, no trade assets, and they ended up wasting Melo's prime
So the knicks are going to go into the season with Brunson, Mitchell, and Westbrook?
They need to get something for Westbrook and they can’t get anything. It wouldn’t just be Randle cause the money doesn’t work. It would likely be Randle, Fournier and Rose. All three players who would help the lakers more than Westbrook and are each infinitely more tradeable .Why, why, why would the Lakers do this though? Trade an expiring contract for an even worse one?
Like it makes no sense
Doesn't AD want to play the 4? So where does Randle even fit?
The Melo deal fukking sucked. (I refuse to have any back and forth with the Melo apologists
On a side note, it's amazing how D-Will has gotten a complete free pass in New York despite accomplishing way less and performing worse in the playoffs than Carmelo has just because he plays for the Nets.
It was Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, and Ray Felton
Didn't Melo complain about the Knicks giving up too much for him because it left them with no young players to help him.
