'Melo is great for the Knicks

The thing about basketball is that you can only play 5 players at a time if you have 2 of the 10 best players in the league you can hang with and you will probably beat anybody. Some people out there are saying that the players the Knicks traded to get 'Melo were too much of a price to pay.

ESPN reports, "As a part of the deal, the Knicks will send Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov and a 2014 first-round draft pick to the Nuggets, who would get additional picks and cash, the sources said. Along with Anthony, New York would acquire Chauncey Billups, Shelden Williams, Anthony Carter and Renaldo Balkman. New York will send Anthony Randolph and Eddy Curry to Minnesota as part of the deal in exchange for Corey Brewer".

People are trying to tell me that Gallinari, Felton and Mozgov are irreplaceable.I say get out of town with that crap and go back to Jersey. The fact is, there are 10 or 12 of these players in every draft and there are hundreds of them in the B league and the European league.

Let me take Rondo for example; the world loves Rondo and considers him to be a premier point guard in the league. I say the only reason we even know Rondo's name is because he is surrounded by the leagues best players every time he steps on the court. You could grab any point guard from Rucker Park today and put him on the Celtics and he would look like an elite Point Guard in the NBA because he's surrounded by that level of talent.

Now you want to tell me that Gallinari or Mozgov are too much to lose to get 'Melo... come on man. Any role player at the league's minimum pay will look like a stud, even I would look like a stud if I played for the Knicks today. Do you remember when Pippen went to play for Portland after his career along side Michael Jordan? It only showed us how great Michael Jordan was. When Pippen left Chicago the world realized he was an average Joe. It was Mike that made him look like a stud.

As far as I'm concerned the Knicks could have given every player they had except Stoudemire and replaced them with B leaguer's and we would say "wow, the Knicks are brilliant judges of talent, where did they find these guys?" But it could be me playing at the Garden and I suck, but 'Melo and Amare are that good.