The summer leading up to the 2010-11 NBA season has easily been one of the most controversial, contentious, and downright interesting spectacles in all of sports for quite some time.
While this has been a goldmine for scribes and fans to feast on, it has been nothing but a headache for the owners around the league.
Unless new mandates are placed in the new collective bargaining agreement (C.B.A.), front offices will become nervous wrecks anytime their star player enters the final year of their contract. If they can’t get a commitment from their franchise player, teams will have no choice but to entertain trade offers in hopes of avoiding the disastrous summer that befell the Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors.
After watching LeBron James and Chris Bosh leave their teams high and dry, the Nuggets are faced with a similar situation. Denver offered Carmelo Anthony a three-year, $65 million contract extension in hopes of securing his services. However, after watching his draft classmates form a three-headed dragon down on South Beach, he left the offer on the table.
Rumor has it that Carmelo has his sights set on the New York K ...
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