According to Alan Hahn, a top priority for the Nuggets in any Carmelo Anthony trade is to shed enough salary to avoid paying the luxury tax this season.
Denver projects to be over the tax threshold by season's end.
"Bottom line is the Knicks have to find a way to work out a deal that results in Denver coming out of this with immediate financial savings (read: they get under the luxury tax threshold)," Hahn wrote in a Web chat. "That I know for a fact is a top priority for the Nugs."