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NETS PULL OUT OF 4 TEAM TRADE FOR MELO
The proposed four-team deal that would send Carmelo Anthony to New Jersey is no longer being actively pursued by the Nets, according to NBA front-office sources.
Although it’s possible that the trade could be revived or that the Nets will construct another multiteam offer for Anthony that the Nuggets find more enticing, sources close to the situation said Tuesday that the Nets were no longer prepared to wait on Denver’s indecision, which has left several players in limbo since ESPN.com reported Friday that the framework was in place on a blockbuster deal that also involved Charlotte and Utah.
The Bergen Record reported that Nets general manager Billy King had issued a Tuesday deadline to the Nuggets to finally accept or reject the original proposal, which would have brought Nets rookie Derrick Favors, Jazz veteran Andrei Kirilenko and two future first-round picks to Denver. Nets guard Devin Harris would have gone to Charlotte and Bobcats forward Boris Diaw would have headed to Utah.
Yet it became clear after a stagnant weekend — during which Denver held talks with other teams about Anthony — that the Nets, Bobcats and Jazz were losing patience. Another issue is the constant questions players such as Harris and Kirilenko have been fielding daily about their futures because the near trade has been so highly publicized.
Sources say that the Nets, by backing away now, hope to ease some of the tension in training camp under first-year coach Avery Johnson after four days of practices gripped by anticipation of the trade.
ESPN.com reported as early as last week that the Nuggets, even as they advanced deep into trade talks with the other three teams, have been clinging to hope that Anthony — who has had virtually no contact with the organization all summer — could be convinced to reconsider his desire to be traded once he reported to training camp and started hearing pro-Nuggets voices again.
That process has begun, but sources close to the situation continue to say that the Nuggets’ approach is futile, insisting that Anthony remains determined to leave in free agency in July.
And sources with knowledge of Denver’s thinking have maintained for weeks that the Nuggets will not keep him beyond the February trading deadline if they believe he’s headed for free agency, after watching Cleveland and Toronto lose LeBron James and Chris Bosh, respectively.
After Tuesday’s first practice of the season with the Nuggets, speaking to local reporters, Anthony said: “As far as that [trade] stuff goes, I’m here right now. Whatever happens is going to happen. Like I said [Monday at media day], I’ll let the front office handle that.”
ESPN The Magazine’s Chris Broussard reported Monday that a major reason Denver would not sign off on the original four-team proposal is because the trade as constructed would have saddled the Nuggets with nearly $10 million in additional salary and luxury-tax costs this season.
A source with knowledge of Denver’s thinking told Broussard: “[Nuggets owner] Stan Kroenke is not going to pay that much money to take a step backwards. They’ll have to find a way for Denver to take on less money for that deal to happen.”
Although the proposed deal would have furnished Denver with two future first-rounders and Favors — satisfying many of the prerequisites it established when it began fielding offers for Anthony earlier this month — Kroenke’s 2010-11 payroll would have increased by $4.8 million, which would force the Nuggets to spend an extra $9.6 million (including luxury-tax penalties) to become a worse team.
Broussard reported Monday that the financial implications made the deal very unlikely to happen in its current form, despite that fact that Nuggets adviser Bret Bearup — longtime consultant to Kroenke and son Josh, who serves as Denver’s president — has wanted to trade Anthony for quite some time.
The New York Knicks, who are Anthony’s team of choice, have continued to pursue Anthony, but Denver has generally been cold to conversations with the Knicks. Sources told Broussard that the Nuggets are not only lukewarm on the players available from the Knicks but also believe that New York might have done some back-channel recruiting of Anthony over the summer.
The Nuggets, sources said, are thus determined not to work with the Knicks except as a last resort.
But the expectation around the league remains that Anthony, because he still possesses the ability to walk away in free agency in July, will not be a Nugget past February. That perception was fueled by media reports that Anthony did not participate in several of the promotional activites players typically perform on media day, with the Denver Post noting that Anthony’s picture was removed Monday from a highly visible advertisement on the Nuggets’ website and replaced by second-year guard Ty Lawson.
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CARMELO ANTHONY TRADE TALKS HEATS UP NUGGETS CLOSE TO 4 TEAM DEAL WITH NETS BOBCATS & JAZZ
The Denver Nuggets went into weekend on the brink of completing a four-team megatrade that would land All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony with the New Jersey Nets, according to sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
The proposed deal, as ESPN.com reported earlier Friday, would also involve Utah and Charlotte and is poised to deliver prized Nets rookie Derrick Favors, Jazz veteran Andrei Kirilenko and multiple future first-round picks to Denver in exchange for their franchise player.
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Sources told ESPN.com that the deal, which has yet to be finalized, would send former All-Star point guard Devin Harris to Charlotte, with Bobcats forward Boris Diaw moving to Utah. The Bergen Record reported Friday afternoon that the Nets would also receive Bobcats guard D.J. Augustin, with New Jersey's Jarvis Hayes accompanying Harris to Charlotte in a sign-and-trade. Nets swingman Quinton Ross would go to Utah and Denver would get a 1-to-7 protected first-round pick in 2012 that New Jersey received from Golden State.
The four teams are "seriously engaged" after negotiations progressed well Thursday and Friday, according to two sources close to the talks. If final hurdles are cleared, Anthony's uncertain future -- which has dominated discussion throughout the league since mid-August -- could be unexpectedly resolved before the Nuggets hold their first practice of the new season.
The trade's completion, though, hinges on Anthony's willingness to sign an extension with the Nets as part of the deal, as Kevin Garnett did to clinch the blockbuster trade that sent him from Minnesota to Boston in July 2007. One source with knowledge of New Jersey's thinking told ESPN.com that the Nets will not part with assets such as Favors (selected No. 3 overall in the June draft) and Harris (an All-Star in 2009) and go through with the trade unless Anthony commits to the extension, no matter how ready Denver is to pull the trigger.
One source close to the talks told ESPN.com on Friday night that the Nets expect to learn by Saturday whether Anthony will sign the extension. The New York Daily News, quoting a "reliable source," reported Friday night that Anthony has already approved the deal.
One source close to Anthony had told ESPN.com on Friday afternoon that the 26-year-old -- whose top two preferred destinations are New York and Chicago -- was warming to the idea of joining the Nets, whose planned move to Brooklyn in two years under Russian billionaire owner Mikhail Prokhorov is a strong lure, in addition the presence of center Brook Lopez, one of the league's top young big men.
Yet the source said Anthony was also hoping that the Knicks or the Bulls, realizing Anthony is on the brink of going elsewhere, make a last-ditch attempt over the weekend to join the bidding.
New York's lack of future draft picks to offer and Chicago's blanket refusal to make Joakim Noah available to the Nuggets in trade talks established the Nets as the front-runner to win the Anthony Sweepstakes. ESPN.com reported last Sunday that the Nuggets had begun telling teams for the first time that they were willing to make a deal before the start of the season.
Anthony has the ability to become a free agent at season's end, which is the hammer that has enabled his agent, Leon Rose, to apply such pressure to the Nuggets in hopes of forcing a trade before camps open Monday. The tension has been building since June, when the Nuggets believed that Anthony was on the verge of signing a three-year, $65 million contract extension, only for Anthony to pass.
Nuggets coach George Karl had been hoping that it was still possible to convince Anthony to reconsider his determination to be traded once he arrived in training camp and started hearing some pro-Denver voices after weeks of isolation from the organization. Sources said that the Nuggets were planning to mount one last campaign to get Anthony to sign the extension, with the promise that they would trade him closer to the February trading deadline if he continued to be unhappy.
But the Nuggets have signed off on the proposed deal and now await word from New Jersey about its ability to sell Anthony on the extension, which does hold significant appeal because it would enable Anthony to sign one more contract under the league's current collective bargaining agreement.
Word of the trade talks surfaced on Friday, hours after new coach Avery Johnson and players reported to camp and talked to the media about the upcoming season. The team's first practice is Saturday.
There have been talks about trades involving the Nets and Anthony in recent weeks and Johnson was asked about the rumors.
"All year you are going to hear stuff about not only our situation but every team. That's the way it goes," he said. "Every general manager, and you have 30 of them, they are always out looking to improve the ballclub and that's what they should do. If Billy was sitting up in his office looking at some political talk on television, because I heard he was a politics guy, I would be very disappointed. He is going to be always looking to improve our ball club."
Johnson said that he wants Harris to be the engine that runs the team and he noted that Favors shows the potential at 19-years-old that Tim Duncan and Garnett showed at the same age.
Johnson was concerned that trade talks might be a distraction for the players.
"They understand that is part of the game," he said. "It's a part of the business. There may be some things said about coach this year that is really inaccurate. That is a part of what we deal with. When you sign you name on contracts to be an NBA player or coach that's kind of the unwritten rule, the fine print you don't see. Your name is going to come up and something is going to be said. You have to deal with it."
Johnson refused to speculate on how many games the new-look Nets would win after winning only 12 last season.
"We're not making any promises except to say we're going to play hard and we'll see what happens on nights when our talent level is not as high as other teams."
New owner Mikhail Prokhorov has said the Nets will challenge for a playoff berth this season.
Johnson noted that statement was made before the free-agency period.
"You have to look at the context of when the statement was made," Johnson said. "Mikhail and I are on the same page. This is not going to blow up in smoke if that doesn't happen the first year."
UPDATE: CARMELO ANTHONY HAS AGREED TO A CONTRACT EXTENSION WITH THE NETS HOWEVER NO FURTHER DETAILS WILL DEVELOP UNTIL TOMMORROW CARMELO ANTHONY SCHEDULED TO SIT DOWN WITH NETS MANAGEMENT.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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NFL NEWS: MICHAEL VICK WILL START FOR THE PHILADLEPHIA EAGLES THIS SUNDAY
One day after calling his quarterback quandary "a beautiful situation," Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid made a surprising reversal: Michael Vick, not Kevin Kolb, will be the starting quarterback, the team announced Tuesday.
Reid, who said Monday that Kolb was the starter, was scheduled to explain his reason for the switch during a 6:30 p.m. ET Tuesday conference call with reporters. However, a league source told NFL Network insider Michael Lombardi that the decision to go with Vick wasn't related to Kolb's health. Kolb has missed the last six quarters because of a concussion.
Lombardi reported that Kolb is cleared to play, but Vick has performed too well. Vick's second start will come Sunday on the road against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Vick threw for 175 yards and one touchdown and ran for 103 yards in relief of Kolb during a 27-20 season-opening loss to the Green Bay Packers. Vick had 284 passing yards and two TDs in his first start, a 35-32 victory at Detroit on Sunday.
Kolb started two games in his first three seasons before he became the Eagles' No. 1 quarterback after Donovan McNabb was traded to the Washington Redskins. Kolb struggled in the first half against Green Bay
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NEWS: T.I . COULD BE HEADING BACK TO PRISON
If a statement released by Atlanta U.S. Attorney Sally Yates yesterday is to be believed, superstar rapper T.I. could be heading back to jail.
“We are very disappointed in Mr. Harris’ recent conduct," U.S. Attorney Sally Yates told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a statement released Friday (September 17th). "We will make our sentencing recommendation at the revocation hearing.”
The rapper and his wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle could face up to a year in California state prison, after they were caught being in possession of ecstasy in Hollywood, California on September 1st.
To make matters worse, T.I. failed a drug test when traces of codeine were found in his system when he was drug tested shortly after the arrest and he was traveling with a convicted felon named Cortez "C-Rod" Thomas.
All infractions are violations of the terms of T.I.'s three-year probation for attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers just before the BET Awards in October of 2007.
In an unusual deal, U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. allowed the rapper to remain free and travel the country, to encourage at-risk youth to stay away from drugs, gangs and violence, as part of his sentence.
The rapper, born Clifford Harris Jr., criss-crossed the country and clocked in 1,000 hours of probation time with at-risk youth, before serving a year in prison for gun violations.
T.I. was released in March of 2010 and appeared to be heading for Hollywood stardom, before his latest brush with the law.
Judge Pannell ordered T.I. to stand before him and explain the latest charges, but a date for the hearing has not been set as of press time.
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