Chris Paul Wants to Form ‘Big Three’ in New York?

Newsday‘s spies at Melo’s wedding this past weekend say Chris Paul made a rather interesting speech (and pitch) during the ceremony: “Could Broadway get its own Big Three? While addressing guests at Carmelo Anthony ‘s wedding in Manhattan on Saturday, Chris Paul made it known that he is open to the idea. According to multiple sources who attended the wedding, which was held at Cipriani on 42nd Street, there was a common theme among the best wishes to Anthony and his new bride, television personality LaLa Vazquez: that they should consider taking up permanent residence in New York and that Anthony should take the challenge LeBron James passed on with the Knicks. And with less-than-pleased Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke in attendance, Paul – during his address to the happy couple – said he wants to get Anthony to come with him and join Amar’e Stoudemire with the Knicks ‘and form our own Big Three’ to challenge the newly formed Miami triumvirate of James , Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. Stoudemire, who also attended the wedding, loved what he heard. When he first arrived in New York the previous Saturday night, he reportedly said, ‘I’ve talked to Carmelo Anthony that he needs to come out here.’”

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Tags: Amare Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Denver Nuggets, Free Agency, New Orleans Hornets, New York Knicks

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http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

snapping dooley. this is getting out of hand.
Snapping Dooley

Somebody called me?
James

With all due respect, a trio including Bron,Wade and Bosh is better than a Melo, Amare, CP3 trio.
Fat Lever

Stop Snitchin’
nicko

all these people are just giving up on their teams already haha
Hedo Turkeyglu

This is quickly becoming a two- or three-tier NBA. First tier with Big 3 type players on each of a handful of teams (Miami-Bos-NYC-Chi-LA) and the rest of the franchises forming the equivalent of the D-League in the NBA. How can this possibly become more blatant? In inmates running the insane asylum.
http://www.slamonline.com J

of all people i never thought chris would say anything like that.. wow, if that happens, its gonna be a very sad league.. no more competition, its gonna shrunk into 20 teams.. very sad.
http://www.slamonline.com/ niQ

Is David Stern on vacation? How is it that the players can openly talk about getting players to join a team with them when everyone else gets fined for even mentioning their name?
http://www.slamonline.com Eboy

So is Chris going to be suspended now?
cp3fan

How many big threes are we going to have? There is about to be three or four teams with 12 of the best players on them. I don’t think that’s good for the league. I like seeing players spread out on different teams.
Epsilon Nupe

agreed, i wasnt mad at the move in mia, but it appears that everyone will to get an allstar team leaving(this point was already reffered to above) a league with maybe 4 or 5 great teams. Really the east will be stacked, and kill each other, and the lakers will still have an easy path to the finals. (i say that assuming paul and melo leave the west for ny, and the spurs somehow trade parker)
Will

Melo is staying in DENVER
http://www.twitter.com/notebooknick NotebookNick

Amar’e doesn’t play defense and needs a point guard. He’d get one of those two things with Paul.
http://www.kb24.com The Seed

I would take Paul, Melo and Amare over Wade, James and Bosh anyday, also Knicks have better role players to. HA HA, Miami big three better win this year or its over. BOOK IT!!!
Hedo Turkeyglu

Eboy, I suspect you fully realize that this goes far beyond just Chris piping up. Up until the MIA 3 Egos, the Heat were just another of the middle market also-rans. It is quickly turning to the a handful of Globetrotter teams and the rest are the Generals, without requisite talent to compete.
http://aspov.blogspot.com Cheryl

Baseball has the same issues. It’ll be interesting how David Stern and the owners will attempt to regain control of their product. The players are finally realizing the power they have and are wielding it. Welcome to the 21st century.
http://albayanos.com LeoneL

I bet he’s kidding.
riggs

the heat already have a recent championship cant the knicks catch a break for once
BostonBaller

I totally agree with Cheryl. I also have no problem w/ players trying to stack their teams in this manner since owners used to do the same thing way back in the day when they could. Back room deals are now done in on street cafe’s. This breed of athlete will always push the envelope…
Sam

Maybe Paul was having too many drinks at the wedding. Did Melo have an open bar????
m3kw

Give me a break. LOL Amare(sp) and Melo is NOT big, they are all stars, but not at that scale.

I wouldn’t say Bosh is big but he is in Pierce’s class.

James and Wade is BIG. Kobe is big.
Aristotle

It’s starting to become like European football…. a handful of clubs with the dollars or the history to bring in players which are excited by the dollars or the history, and the rest of the teams all suffer, and so do the fans. At least in European football (Soccer as you know it) the fans turn up every week, even if your the worst teams and getting relegated. I guess it gives them hope.
leeper

haha DECISION 2011 – it’s becoming annual!
ron

how to put it…
it won’t be exciting if you get to see team USA play every night…
w-8ben

if the miami 3 dont get a ring this coming year, they will be the laughing stock of the nba.
even the boston big 3 full of old ppl got the ring right off the bat. cp3 stoud & melo seem to have much better possible chemistry too
Robb

Now, that’s a big three to be afraid of. They could work as a team so much better. Agreed Seed.
http://theurbangriot.com The Nupe

Players deciding where they want to play – now that’s a concept. The lack of parity in the NBA is nothing new and something that I’m sure continues to concern Stern and others interested in the long-term success of the L. Now with players asserting themseleves, it makes it an even more difficult challenge and likely a direct area to be addressed in the upcoming negotiations (and lock-out). Lettign players choose where they want to play will certainly benefit big markets and good weather locations – and cause even more damage to small and/or ‘bad weather’ markets. What’s good for the NBA is not necessarily what the players would ideally like, but without significant changes to free agency rules (more limitations on who can go where) how do they make it more competitive and interesting across the L?
Chris

As a NY fan, this would be amazing. Unfortunately, I still don’t know if that team beats the Super 3 in Miami.
ampd

can we please stop with the use of the term ‘big 3′? duke had a big 3, miami has a big 3, now paul wants one in nyc….. the only big 3 is the legend, chief, and mchale, done deal
http://moko.cc/gdpkq KQ

I think Chris, Amare and Carmelo is actually a combination that works better. Amare played a pretty solid pick-n-roll game with Nash back in Phoenix and he could do the same with Paul. While Nash had only some B-list shooters to dish to, Chris would have Carmelo helping him chalk up assists if the NYC-Big-3 becomes a reality.

Having said that, I do look forward to the possibility of Lebron morphing into the Incredible-Hulk version of Magic, and become a great orchestra conductor, with Wade and Bosh playing to his dimes.
Joe

This is how you end up with Michael Redd as a “max” player. The other teams will have to pay someone.
http://gmail dirty frank

If you tell people they can’t talk – they will do so quietly. I think the rule should be dropped. Let players talk to each other – they have always and will always do it anyway.
rainman10

People always sayin Amare can’t be good without a good point guard (Steve Nash). But in his 2nd yr out of high school, with a rookie Barbosa and terrible Howard Eisley runnin’ the point, Amare averaged 20 and 9. Dude can play.
http://gmail dirty frank

There have always been only a handful of NBA teams capable of winning a championship at any given time.
D12FSU

chris paul is still in new orleans, right? or did i miss a trade, how is this not tampering?!
WangChung

c’mon Melo…you know what you have to do now. MSG vs. Pepsi Center? Nuff said.
Jake

I think the L might as well just split up every superstar onto 2 teams,one in the west and one in the east and let them duke it out every year.
LA Huey

So the lack of parity in the league is a problem because its the players that are dictating what the good teams are as opposed to the organizations themselves? I haven’t heard people complaining so much in past years. I mean, the Larry O’Brien has gone to all but 7 teams in the past 3 decades. Only once, 1994 Rockets has a team done it with just a single current/former All-Star. It seems like people are only noticing because usually it’s just your “regular” All-Stars and not the types with “celebrity” status getting together.
http://screwjams.tumblr.com cramzy

will somebody please tell Stat to stop snitchin on himself. I could have sworn what these guys are doing is called tampering. Why everybody wanna broadcast these things these days?
http://theurbangriot.com The Nupe

Stern is right for not trying to ‘punish’ players for talking to each other. Frankly I don’t think it’s that big of a deal as I’m sure behind the scenes teams are talking to players all the time. At the end of the day IF players have the options and teams have the money then who talks to whom (where ever and whenever) doesn’t really matter. I don’t think ‘controlling’ talks with players/agents/GM’s etc makes a difference or is an effective way of accomplishing anything besides behind the scenes conversations and/or speculation about behind the scenes conversations.
http://double-technical.blogspot.com Zee!

Damn, as if New Orleans wasn’t already going through it….
JTaylor21

You old a*s so called basketball fans weren’t crying about wanting parity in the past. How bout the 60s when the celtics won i’m guessing 9 out of 10 chips or the 80s when the celts and lakers won 8 out of 10 chips or the 90s when the bulls/rockets/spurs won all ten. Only the 70s were there any parity. Stop complaing and let this new school players do only what has been done since day one.
JTaylor21

Congrats!! the seed with the stupidest statement of the day. Who in their right mind would pick paul/melo/stat over bron/wade/bosh, only a kobe ball devourer would say something that foolish. for one wade would abuse paul on D, melo also will get abused on D and bosh at least pretends to try on D unlike amare who acts like the player he’s guarding has swine flu. Also they will be playing for NO D-antonio we know what that means. A buffet line to the basket.
LA Huey

@JTaylor21, you’re selling Melo short on D. He plays solid D but it’s not recognized because he doesn’t make any highlight steals/blocks.
Javy

I guess Kobe can talk to Durant and maybe get him to cancel his contract and come play with him.
This league is becoming a joke!!!
No more competitiveness out there…..
I will start watching Volleyball from now on!
JD

That would be awesome
bnets

they should just go to miami for less money hahah
Chris

I think the success of the Heat depends on how well LBJ can suit himself to a Magic Johnson type of role.

If him and Wade start jockeying for ball time, then the team won’t work.

No doubt, individually, Bron, Wade, and Bosh will be unmatched by any other team, but it is collectively that they need to worry about. They may be able to bring it all together, but Melo, Paul, and Amar’e do seem like they would fit more naturally together.
O

Until it actually happens, i’m not getting my hopes up. That team would definitely get the NYK back into relevancy and make them a Championship team. I heard Spike Lee almost fainted when Paul said that. He probably nutted on himself.
O

Sidenote: Any money bet says that LeBron will be BEGGING CP3 to join the Heat when the time comes…

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