NEW YORK - The Knicks have a trade with the Denver Nuggets Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups former Piston, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press agreed Monday night.
The agreement that the season would be a long saga leading trade with Denver's All-Star does not end until Tuesday at a conference call with the NBA office to be completed.
Assuming it passes through, it brings along with Anthony Amare Stoudemire in the frontcourt potentially explosive - a high price for the Knicks.
The person who provided no further details of WHO in the company which was reported Monday by the Denver Post. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to publish on trade.
The Post, citing a league source said the Knicks Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgova and a choice of 2014 first-round send the Nuggets, the peaks and get pocket money.
With Anthony, New York would be Billups, Shelden Williams, Renaldo Balkman Anthony Carter and the purchase, according to the Post.
The Nuggets trade Anthony explored since it extended three-year contract worth nearly $ 65 million he offered last summer dismissed shield.
They appeared on the verge of sending it to the Nets in New Jersey on several occasions, but the Knicks have increased their offer enough for Anthony, who believed in New York all the time, it was prefer country.
The Knicks hope he could be in uniform on Wednesday when they host the Milwaukee Bucks.
Denver coach George Karl said there was "some sadness" in the company, refer not only Anthony but Billups, Denver's popular locally. But he added it was "time to move, to reinvent."
Anthony led the Nuggets in the playoffs in each of his first seven seasons in Denver after winning a national title at Syracuse as a freshman and placed for another playoff run this year. But Denver at the end of the first round only once in that time.
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He stood on the headliner of the class 2011 is now a free agent, but did not know the free will that could open a new agreement wage cost him millions risk. But when he refused the extension with the Nuggets - Denver mansion more on the market last year - the Nuggets' new front office team of Masai Ujiri CEO and team president Josh Kroenke has had trade talks start so you do not have to risk anything, the Cavaliers have LeBron James and with the Toronto Raptors Chris Bosh with last year.
There were persistent rumors Anthony would not hold if the expansion of commercial networks, which was a prerequisite for agreeing to trade. He will get found instead of joining a team, the Knicks into sixth place in the Eastern Conference and in this position for the first playoff berth since 2004.
But they made their late season run without the core team. Felton, Gallinari, Chandler and Mozgova has four top-six New York players, and it is for some, the Knicks were too Anthony, a sensational striker headed a team to get the not necessarily mean more scoring.
However, the Knicks felt they could do no opportunity to move to another country superstar, after it became available.
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