rsgoldfastcom: Mike Malone is likely not terribly safe with the Denver

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Mike Malone is likely not terribly safe with the Denver Nuggets, though a playoff berth would go a long way. We might also see the end of the NBA Live Mobile Coins Brett Brown experience with the Philadelphia 76ers. So while it appears a streak of in-season coach replacements almost five decades long will die, coaches aren’t out of the woods yet.

On Friday, Knicks president Phil Jackson bluntly expressed that he feels Carmelo Anthony should play somewhere else next season. After a season’s worth of battles in the media (social and otherwise), Jackson jabbed at Melo by saying the team hasn’t won with him (which isn’t entirely true) and that the team would attempt to trade the star this summer.Jackson’s problem, of course, is that Carmelo has a no-trade clause. How did Carmelo Anthony get a no-trade clause?

Phil Jackson gave it to him in contract negotiations in 2014. Whoops!So while Jackson blusters about what needs to happen, we all know Anthony is the one with the power here. He controls his own future, and by extension, that of Jackson’s Knicks. Melo is under contract for the next two years, though he can opt out in the 2018 offseason and become a free agent. 

Jackson and the Knicks recently mutually agreed to pick up options to keep the president under contract until 2019. Melo and Jackson’s contracts expire the same summer. They are in this together, unless one bends.Should Melo bend? What should he do?Here are his options.

Option 1: The Peace-OutMelo could NBALive reddit realize that his career is too short to risk wasting another year fighting with a 71-year-old man and waive his no-trade clause outright.