Melo is overrated player for me. No offense for his fans. He can't even carry a team even now or distributed much after bringing Denver Nuggets last 2009-2010 season into their first conference finals. That's the highlight of his career and follow up season is kinda not that interesting.
For me, New York Knicks must retained this player if Melo will agree. Revamp their bench as this squad doesn't have a second team. Don't just acquired injury prone player to saved salary cap. They must do what Boston Celtics after their decision to recruit young players and disband their championship lineup. It's a risk worth trying for.
Melo gets a lot of bad reputation but let's face it, he's not on the same level and never was compared to Lebron James or Wade, from his generation. Now the guy played great at Denver and he also got an awful NYK team deep into the Playoffs. But he's not a loser in my mind, he just never had the luck to play in a great team, those Denver and NY teams were completely lacking in the talent deparment, let's be real here.
Either way, now he's older and more injury prone, I still think he can be a great piece to a well established team, he still is an awesome scorer and got more mature with age.