The latest development in the Carmelo Anthony trade rumors has nothing at all to do with a trade involving Carmelo Anthony. Instead, it’s about what might happen in the wake of that trade between Anthony’s Denver Nuggets and the team that won’t end up trading for him, the New Jersey Nets.
Carmelo Anthony Trade To Knicks Could Be Followed By Nuggets Swap With Nets
ESPN’s Chris Broussard has the latest information in a tweet:
Sources say NJ in talks w/Den to send 2 1st round picks to Den for Mozgov & either Gallinari, Chandler or Felton, if Melo traded to NYKShould Broussard’s report come true, it might be one of the savvier moves the Nets have made since owner Mikhail Prokhorov purchased the team; forcing the Knicks to pay through the nose for Anthony by bidding against them with the Nuggets is smart, but taking advantage of the Nuggets’ sudden surplus of young talent and swapping draft picks to Denver for players the Nets might want — Timofey Mozgov is apparently a blue-chip prospect? — could be smarter.
And if the Knicks want to send a third of their roster to the Nuggets for Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups, and bench players, why shouldn’t the Nets benefit from the swap meet?
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