I still think NY was in the drivers seat with Melo I don't think this was necessarily Melo picking OKC over PDX I think NY management saw our offer of ex-scrap heap players and felt the OKC offer was better Maybe Noah injury played a role I think NO would not offer up what NYC deemed to be better then the OKC trade I do think Kantor and McDermott are better then Meyers, Harkless, Noah, etc... So without one of our
draftees from this year or a
high draft pick NY took the best offer I trust that NO is a good judge of talent and felt giving up anything more then what he offered was not worth an aging but talented Melo