New Jersey Nets Talking About a Threesome With Carmelo and Detroit

The New Jersey Nets' latest attempt to acquire Denver's Carmelo Anthony involves the Detroit Pistons. Sources with knowledge of the talks confirmed the Nets and Nuggets have discussed a three-way trade proposal that would land Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups and Pistons guard Rip Hamilton alongside Anthony in New Jersey. But a source close to the situation subsequently told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard that the three-way deal in its proposed form -- which would require the Pistons to take Nets center Johan Petro and surrender a first-round pick in addition to absorbing the expiring contract of Troy Murphy to the Pistons -- is not amenable to Detroit.

Gross. I'm gonna quote the young black man when he delivered my sister's bed a couple months ago and the first talk of Melo to New Jersey was starting to heat up. "The Nets?!?!" That was it.