I have been working on variations of this article for a while now. Coming up with a headline proved especially difficult — I wanted so badly to write something to the effect of “No, the Knicks aren’t trading Carmelo Anthony to the Clippers, because they have no assets,” but then I realized we’re talking about the league’s pettiest franchise and pettiest team president.
In a world governed by logic, there’s no way the Clippers could be involved in a straight-up Melo trade. Doc Rivers won’t part with Blake Griffin (who would have to agree to a sign-and-trade anyway, as he will be a free agent this summer), and they have nothing else to offer other than Austin Rivers and a first-round pick in (at earliest) 2021.