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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 2585945, member: 874"] Actually he didn't. He left his first team. And he did it in a manner that made it more difficult to put pieces around him with his new team but that allowed him to make the max available. Then, when he resigned, he again took the max available. Did he do anything wrong? Nope, and I never said he did. Could he have put himself in a better position to win by taking less money? Yep. He could have chosen a team with a more established coach and/or gm. He could've taken less money to lure other good players. Last year Kevin Durant took $10 million less than he could have to allow his team to resign two important pieces. Other guys have done it too. Melo has been a HOF player throughout his career and is one of the great scorers ever, but the people that claim he was put in these horrible situations where he was surrounded with scrubs, ignore the power he had to influence his situation when he was at his peak. [/QUOTE]