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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 1180565, member: 874"] I don't believe any athlete when they take as much money as possible (I know he only took 96% of it) to go to a currently inferior team and say it's not about the money. It's called public relations. When was the last time any athlete said, "I took the most money I could get. That was the most important thing in my mind?" No athlete has said it, because they and their public relations people are smarter than that. Do you believe everything celebrities state to the public through the media? I can believe he stayed because he believes in Phil Jackson. However, and I'm not sure how many times I have to state this, if winning is the number #1 priority, he could've taken less money. Even if the Knicks offered the $124 million, it was within his power to say, "Listen, I want a championship and I know we need to draw guys here. I've made well over $100 million so far in my career, so I'll take significantly less to get me my ring." If you think NY was/is his second best shot, fine. I disagree. I think he's taking a chance on an organization with a reputation of flawed decisions. Phil Jackson is a HOF coach but we have no clue how he'll be in the front office and we don't know how much James Dolan will meddle with what he tries to do. We don't know how good Derek Fisher will be as a coach either. Maybe all of them will prove me wrong. Maybe Phil will pull a Danny Ainge and surround Melo with 2 pieces to make a big three. My opinion is that Chicago is only missing one thing, even without Rose, and that's a lights out scorer. I think if Melo went there, they would've been among the favorites in the east without Rose and THE favorite with Rose. For what it's worth, I thought he should've allowed himself to be a free agent when he left Denver and gone to Chicago then. He would've been on the 2012 team that was tied for the best record in the NBA and had the first seed in the east that year. [/QUOTE]

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