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Originally Posted by G-spec
and you guys are looking at this thing with Carmelo going to the Nets the wrong way. Ok the Nets were horrible last season true...
but look at it the right way.... new city, new arena, and the biggest factor is the new owner that happens to have the deepest pockets in the league right now, that's the key right there. Owner Mikhail Prokhorov has serious money to blow and is willing to basically buy an NBA championship.
Some sports writers are projecting the Nets to win a championship within 5 years.
My own opinion is this year they will win around 40 games probably make it to the playoffs as a 6th or 7th seed, doubt they will go deep in the playoffs but going to the playoffs after a season like last is a huge improvement.
Year after they will add more pieces to the puzzle fix the problems of the upcoming season and it's only gonna get better.
I absolutely understand Melo going to the Nets, as I've been looking at the Nuggets last few seasons as a thorn in the side of the western conference, not a powerhouse like all the sports writers been labeling them, but just a solid team that will always consistently make it deep in the playoffs but always fall short.
I've played on basketball teams with all good players before that never made it anywhere I know how frustrating that is. Something fresh and new is on the menu for Melo, and his boss is baaaaaallin !
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While I don't know where this "sports writers predict they will win the champ in 5 years" is from, nor do I agree that the deep pockets of Prokhorov has that much incremental value to them winning, I DO agree that he needs to go, and the Nets are a better choice than people think.
They're moving to Brooklyn
They have an owner who cares, and he seems to know what hes doing (example: saying "meh" guys for reasonable contracts, and not overpaying just to spend the cap)
The Knicks are still gonna suck for a while
Add to the current Denver situation, you know, playing with a bonehead like JR Smith, and playing with an aging star who thinks he's still Mr Big shot and bricking horrible 3s in crunch time, Melo's got to be feeling really annoyed. Seeing how his contemporaries are doing must be adding fuel to the flame. His reasoning for moving to big cities so his wife can develop her career is a little ludacris to me thou, she's a freakin MTV VJ at best and I think its overblown.