Melo didn’t have help because he required a max contract and we traded away every asset for him, which is common. Brunson took less to have a winning team around him.
The whole “is Brunson a better Knick than Melo” debate is stupid to me. We were all there for the Melo era. Melo was a great player Hall of Famer & deservedly so but he never had enough help in New York to truly become a top Knick ever. We appreciate everything he did for our franchise but this is prob why he won’t end up in the rafters & why it’s already easy for a lot of people to say Brunson is a better Knick than Melo already.