Not trying to start a fight but this response strikes me as awfully insensitive. Not that you were expected to know she was dead, but once you found out it might have been more appropriate to issue some semi-apologetic statement or at least not say something as contrarian and stubborn as
Doesn't change the opinion the person had
I think the issue is more about showing some respect for the dead by not blasting one small meaningless comment they made years ago shortly before their death. Even if her opinion was blatantly wrong (and I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people more qualified to talk about basketball than you or me who would at least partially agree with her), the feeling is you don't call out a dead person who can't defend themselves. Especially over something as trivial as this, and tbh Melo has not been doing anything to invalidate her sentiment for the past several seasons in NY, so I don't know why you pick now to berate a year-old post from a deceased poster?