Report: Nets real close to trading for Carmelo Anthony
Nets ‘real close’ to landing Anthony
The New Jersey Nets are nearing agreement on a three-team trade to acquire Denver Nuggets All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
“It’s real close,” one source with knowledge of the talks said.
The Nets are close to completing the component of the trade that exchanges Troy Murphy for Detroit Pistons guard Richard Hamilton, sources said. The teams are still negotiating whether Nets center Johan Petro, who has two years and $6.75 million left on his contract after this season, will be included, but that isn’t expected to unravel the overall deal. The Pistons are too motivated to unload the remaining two years and $25 million on Hamilton’s contract for Murphy’s $12 million expiring deal.
The proposed trade will send Anthony, Hamilton, Chauncey Billups, Nuggets guard Anthony Carter and forward Shelden Williams to the Nets. The Nuggets will receive two first-round picks from the Nets, point guard Devin Harris, rookie forward Derrick Favors, guards Anthony Morrow, Ben Uzoh, Stephen Graham and Quinton Ross. The Pistons will get Murphy and Petro.
If completed, the proposed trade would match the 13-player deal that sent Antoine Walker from the Boston Celtics to the Miami Heat on Aug. 2, 2005, as the largest in NBA history.
One front-office executive said Anthony is “on board” with signing a three-year, $65 million extension with the Nets - provided New Jersey completes the Detroit part of the deal.
“He wants to play with Rip,” the source said.
Billups would prefer to stay in Denver, but to make him more comfortable about the trade, the Nets are expected to commit to paying him the full $14.2 million he’s due next season in the final year of his contract rather than buying him out for just $3.7 million this summer, league sources said. Billups’ agent, Andy Miller, had said Saturday that his client would immediately seek a buyout if he wasn’t happy with the trade.
The New York Knicks remain Anthony’s preferred destination, but Nuggets general manager Masai Ujiri has told Knicks president Donnie Walsh that his team doesn’t have the assets Denver wants. When Walsh has asked Ujiri to provide him with a list of the Nuggets’ desires, whether it be draft picks or specific players from other teams, sources said Ujiri has been unresponsive.
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The New Jersey Nets are nearing agreement on a three-team trade to acquire Denver Nuggets All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
“It’s real close,” one source with knowledge of the talks said.
The Nets are close to completing the component of the trade that exchanges Troy Murphy for Detroit Pistons guard Richard Hamilton, sources said. The teams are still negotiating whether Nets center Johan Petro, who has two years and $6.75 million left on his contract after this season, will be included, but that isn’t expected to unravel the overall deal. The Pistons are too motivated to unload the remaining two years and $25 million on Hamilton’s contract for Murphy’s $12 million expiring deal.
The proposed trade will send Anthony, Hamilton, Chauncey Billups, Nuggets guard Anthony Carter and forward Shelden Williams to the Nets. The Nuggets will receive two first-round picks from the Nets, point guard Devin Harris, rookie forward Derrick Favors, guards Anthony Morrow, Ben Uzoh, Stephen Graham and Quinton Ross. The Pistons will get Murphy and Petro.
If completed, the proposed trade would match the 13-player deal that sent Antoine Walker from the Boston Celtics to the Miami Heat on Aug. 2, 2005, as the largest in NBA history.
One front-office executive said Anthony is “on board” with signing a three-year, $65 million extension with the Nets - provided New Jersey completes the Detroit part of the deal.
“He wants to play with Rip,” the source said.
Billups would prefer to stay in Denver, but to make him more comfortable about the trade, the Nets are expected to commit to paying him the full $14.2 million he’s due next season in the final year of his contract rather than buying him out for just $3.7 million this summer, league sources said. Billups’ agent, Andy Miller, had said Saturday that his client would immediately seek a buyout if he wasn’t happy with the trade.
The New York Knicks remain Anthony’s preferred destination, but Nuggets general manager Masai Ujiri has told Knicks president Donnie Walsh that his team doesn’t have the assets Denver wants. When Walsh has asked Ujiri to provide him with a list of the Nuggets’ desires, whether it be draft picks or specific players from other teams, sources said Ujiri has been unresponsive.
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