Pointless Trade Idea

Pelicans get Carmelo Anthony ($24.6 next year); Suns get Tyreke Evans (1yr/$11.6m), the #6 pick; Knicks get Eric Bledsoe ($14m next year), Jrue Holiday (1yr/$11.2m), the #13 pick

With the emergence of Devin Booker at the end of last year, the Suns are back in the PG logjam they had with Dragic and Isiah, which means they're gonna trade either Bledsoe or Knight. Packaging him with the #13 pick gives them a chance to move up in the draft and take a flyer on the last year of Tyreke's contract. If Tyreke works, bonus, but realistically they're just trying to move on from Bledsoe's big contract. They already have #4, #28 and #34 in this draft, they're invested, might as well try to redeem Bledsoe for the #6, as well. This would give them a lineup of Knight, Booker, Tucker, Warren and Chandler with Evans, Len, Goodwin, #4 and #6 off the bench. That team is likely to scuffle but by next summer they'd be able to move on from Tucker, Goodwin, perhaps Chandler's deal becomes more trade-able and they'd be able to make moves in free agency. (Moving #28 for a 2017 1st rounder is something that might consider as well)

The Knicks move on from their biggest contract and most famous player, it'd be a media maelstrom. But with the hiring of Jeff Hornacek, Bledsoe and Holiday would give them two guards to try their new two-guard offense. If it works, it could be electric and if Porzingas continues to grow, the insufferable Knick fans will at least have something to cheer about. Bledsoe is signed and becomes their guy of the future to go with Porzingas, while Holiday is in a contract year and should be looking to have a career year. Throwing in the #13 pick gets them back in the draft (last year's #13 was Devin Booker, so good things can happen). They'd have a starting five of Holiday, Bledsoe, Williams, Porzingas and Lopez with Grant, Wroten, O'Quinn, and #13 off the bench. Yeah, they still need to make moves this summer but bringing back Bledsoe, Holiday and #13 for Melo re-shapes the team for the next coupla years.

The Pelicans would buy in long term with the Melo-AD tandem. Can they play together? Yeah, I think they'd be just fine. This move would give them each the best player they've ever played with, that's got to be exciting, right? Getting rid of Evans is worth losing the #6 pick and they'd be looking to build around free agency rather than the draft anyway. Salary wise they'd be bringing back a coupla million but they'd still have plenty to go forth into the free agency market (hey, Mike Conley, wanna play with Davis and Melo?). As of now their guard situation is simply untenable, so projecting a starting five for the Pelicans is an unnecessary task--if they bring back what they've got now, then poor Anthony Davis ain't ever making the playoffs again! Giving Evans is a gift, giving up Holiday and #6 for three more years of Carmelo is an exciting prospect.