Welcome back, everyone! Are you tired of these Carmelo Anthony trade speculation pieces yet?
Too bad! I promised a mailbag version, and damn it, I’m going to deliver!
In the interest of getting to as many as possible here, I’m going to try to contain my analyses to about a paragraph. My basic guidelines are: 1) all trades are passed through ESPN’s Trade Machine; 2) I assume Melo would waive his 15 percent trade kicker to facilitate a trade; 3) draft pick allocations are here; 4) these trades don’t all satisfy the “every team in a trade must send something to every other team” rule, but that’s easily remedied with heavily-protected second-round picks; and 5) draft pick protections are implied…
