Big Balls Prokhorov FTW

"Yo Mikhail, how big are your balls?"

In a press conference today, Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of the New Jersey Nets, came out and told the media that any proposed trade for Carmelo Anthony was officially dead.  He stated that the talks had gone on too long and that the toll had been too much on the team, and that the Nets were officially walking away.

That takes some serious cojones, and I applaud Prokhorov for doing it.  All along, New Jersey has had the best offer for Carmelo on the table, but they kept getting dragged around by Denver's Front Office, who simply wanted to see how much they could get.  Their thinking was obviously that New Jersey wanted Melo more than anything, so they were going to try to squeeze as much out of them as possible.

But now with Prokhorov putting his foot down (and wisely not mortgaging his team's future in the process), the Nuggets will have to settle for a lesser offer.  They'll still get something for Anthony, maybe even a lot of something, but it won't be nearly the same value that New Jersey could have offered.

Greed isn't always good.