Carmelo Anthony

Carmelo Anthony Need Not Heed Our Desires

... town and win a title with the Celtics. Anthony Davis has made the playoffs just once in four seasons with the Pelicans. What’s unusual about Carmelo Anthony is that he seems more or less happily marooned. He gets frustrated with these unremarkable Knicks on a game-to-game basis, and he sulks whenever he perceives the media forgetting him to fixate on Kristaps Porzingis, but Melo has repeatedly made clear that he doesn’t want to leave New York. Last week, after Phil Jackson used his friend Charley Rosen to float the idea that Melo has outlived his usefulness to the Knicks, Melo sat down with Phil and told him he’s staying put. He could theoretically join the Clippers, or the Rockets, or the Raptors, but he’s not going to. He has a no-trade clause; he’s in full control. It’s not curious, if you think of Melo not as a professional athlete but instead a celebrity who lives and works in New York, why he wouldn’t want to leave. If you’re going ...

Dwyane Wade Doubts Carmelo Would Waive Knicks No-trade Clause

... friend Carmelo Anthony wants to stay in New York win, lose or draw. (JUSTIN LANE/EPA). At this point, the franchise is still trending downward. Hope is fleeting, and Anthony’s prime years are behind him. Nonetheless, Wade said he, James and Paul never try to tell Anthony he should consider leaving the Knicks. Knicks post another unfortunate Derrick Rose tweet. “That’s not our role or our job. A man makes a decision,” Wade said. “If he gets to that point in his career where he can’t do it here and he wants to do that, then that’s on him. That’s a decision that he’ll make. … We support him in whatever decision he wants to make for his career. And like I said, right now, his goal is eventually to do it here. But whatever happens, happens.”. Wade knows the losing seasons may have taken a toll on Melo. “You want your friends to have success, and it’s been a little rough from that standpoint,” Wade said. “It’s cool for me and CP and Bron that we all try to stay connected and keep each other uplifted, because it’s tough going through losing seasons and injury-plagued seasons and ...

Trade Drama Around Carmelo Anthony Hides Knicks’ Many Warts

... “We’ll see (if something changes),” Brandon Jennings said. “You hear a lot of rumors, so I guess we’ll see.”. Carmelo Anthony is playing well, and could be playing his way out of New York. (Tony Gutierrez/AP). Jennings, playing in a contract year, can’t be happy watching defeats unfold from the bench in the fourth quarter while undrafted rookie Ron Baker is on the floor. That happened  Wednesday , and it was a mistake by Hornacek, whose team needed offense to recover from a deficit and couldn't score down the stretch. “There’s still a chance,” Rose said. “But it takes everybody being on the same page, everybody putting in the work and dedicating themselves to the team.”. Is that happening now? “I mean, we lost 14 of the last 18. The record speaks for itself.”. Phil Jackson officially has no use for Carmelo Anthony. Phil Jackson has taken the brunt of the ...

Carmelo Anthony Reveals He's Dealing With Shoulder Injury

... Dec. 11 game against the Lakers. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images). It’s a huge month for the Knicks, whose recent six-game slide has them on the outside of the playoff picture nearly halfway through the season. There are more games in January (17) than any month, and even coach Jeff Hornacek has dubbed it a season-defining stretch. On a personal level for Anthony, there’s also a streak of seven straight All-Star appearances that is in jeopardy based on the first returns of the fan voting. “The only thing that’s going to help (the shoulder) is rest,” Anthony said. “But we’re playing every other day. It’s a tough month.”. Carmelo Anthony fights through the shoulder pain to lead the Knicks to win in Milwaukee. (TANNEN MAURY/EPA). So has he thought about sitting out a game, like Saturday against the Pacers in the second game of a back-to-back. “Not yet. Not yet,” Anthony told the News. “Especially now when we’re in the grind and in the thick of things and we kind of have a chance to get back above.500. And we have some teams that we feel that are some winnable games. So that decision is. they’re going to have to tell me to take a couple off. ...

End Appears Near For Phil Jackson-carmelo Anthony Relationship, And That's Sad

... which measures a player's impact on team defense. New York also is seven points better defensively when Anthony’s off the court, compared to when he’s on it, per __link__. Still, he deserves better treatment than he has received. He has been the public face of the Knicks for nearly six years and has represented the organization with class. His loyalty, as he said Monday, shouldn’t be questioned. He hasn’t gotten in trouble off the court and has handled all of the drama surrounding his tenure in New York with great composure. Sure, some in the organization believe the best course of action for Anthony and the Knicks is to part ways, per sources. But if you asked enough people around the Knicks and caught them in an honest moment, some would probably say the same thing about Jackson. And it’s worth noting that the Knicks’ options in any Anthony trade are limited; there aren’t an abundance of teams that are close to winning and can obtain Anthony without gutting their roster. Perhaps potential trade partners in a Melo swap became ...

Carmelo Anthony’s Traditional Fourth-quarter Fade Sinks Knicks

... to beat teams like this.’. With 30 seconds left, Anthony drove and had a pass to Ron Baker deflected. Baker raced to catch it on the baseline but was ruled to have stepped out of bounds, keeping the Knicks down four points. “It was a bad pass,’ Anthony said. Carmelo Anthony drives to the basket during the Knicks’ loss. AP. Off their big win in Indiana, the Knicks fell to 20-27, failing to muster a two-game winning streak in 2017. “Definitely frustrating because we got the talent we were just 14-10 and now we’re fighting to not be last in the East,’ Brandon Jennings said. “We haven’t been consistent.’. In a strange risk, Hornacek inserted Baker at shooting guard early in the fourth quarter for defensive purposes, but he missed two straight open shots. When Rose returned, Jennings was removed with 6:05 left instead of Baker. Jennings looked perturbed. “Just the flow of the game, if there’s five that’s rolling out there, regardless of who it is, they should stay out there and finish or keep it going,’ Jennings said. Rose let the offense get stagnant in the fourth and the Mavericks pulled ...

A Note On Carmelo Anthony’s Trade Kicker

... read the site regularly, or are following the Carmelo Anthony story, you may have seen my piece from earlier in the week addressing the cap math of getting Anthony to the Los Angeles Clippers. As I always seem to do, I went on for hours (totaling almost 2,000 words) about the ins and outs of salary matching, Melo’s contract, and the Clippers’ hard cap situation. There was also a nice tangent about negotiating to remove protections on the future picks the Clippers owe in order to create flexibility to trade future draft assets—just the type of technically-legal-but-unlikely-to-ever-happen idea that I like to waste time on. But as with any long, in-depth article (especially when the topic is the NBA salary cap), there are going to be omissions and errors. There have been times in the past where I simply made mistakes—mis-reading rules, math errors, etc. This time, I made an editorial omission for the sake of keeping my ...

Clippers Have Strong Interest In Adding Carmelo Anthony To Big Three

... one among the infamous group of best friends who seems content at work these days. Yet make no mistake, both he and Anthony would be a whole lot happier if this Clippers deal eventually goes down. According to a person with knowledge of the situation, who spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, the Clippers have a strong interest in adding Anthony so long as they don’t have to give up one of their Big Three of Paul, Griffin or De Andre Jordan. Considering they have made this clear to the Knicks, the illuminating part is that the conversation didn’t die right there. With the Knicks known to think very favorably of 24-year-old Clippers guard Austin Rivers (career-high 11.9 points per game this season), and with various combinations of trade scenarios known to include other players like veteran shooting guard J. J. Redick (who will ...

Carmelo Anthony Is Beating Phil Jackson At His Own Mind Games

... at MSG, the fact remains that he’s the president, not the head coach. And when has it ever been productive for an executive to take pot shots at his best player? That method doesn’t resonate in a locker room. It only divides. In fact, a case could be made that Phil’s ill-timed comments have helped to undermine the team. Since Phil’s Dec. 6 interview with CBS Sports Network when he said that Carmelo stalls the offense, the Knicks have gone 5-14, including Saturday’s loss to Phoenix. That’s not the only factor, of course. Injuries, poor defensive habits and game plan, Derrick Rose’s unexcused absence and bad luck have all contributed to the Knicks’ season taking a dramatic turn. Another defensive lapse from Rose on Devin Booker’s go-ahead three with 31 seconds left was the difference on Saturday. Carmelo Anthony breaks Knicks record with 25 points in quarter. “As far as (this week being) emotionally draining I try not to think about it,” said Anthony, who was consoled by his teammates and a young fan as he sat on the scorer’s table. “I try to deal with it day ...

Carmelo Anthony’s Knee Injury Won’t Keep Him Off Court For Long

... he said. “I think it’s just the fact that it happened (Friday night), and I tried to go out there and play on (Saturday). I don’t think it’ll be an issue.”. Harden's historic triple double fuels Rockets past thin Knicks. Porzingis also said his injury was minor, and the fact that the Knicks were playing the second game of a back-to-back probably contributed to his decision to log a DNP for the first time all season. In today’s NBA, stars usually don’t play all 82 games — even when they’re 21 years old, even when they set a goal to disprove those who think a skinny European can’t be durable. “It is (frustrating). But at the same time I have to be smart,” Porzingis said. “It’s not like I’m going to win a medal for playing 82 games. I want to help my team every game. But if things like this happen, I think it’s better for me to get ready for the next game for example rather than try to go all-82 and not be able to play 100 percent.”. Kristaps Porzingis said his Achilles heel pain began after the Christmas game ...

The One Trade That Would Fix Two Teams

... Blake has missed time before; the Clippers know how to keep their head above water without him. But losing Paul is an insurmountable blow—one that could force the Clippers to go on the road in the first round of the playoffs and have to knock off a potential 60-win team like the Rockets just to advance. EDITOR’S PICK. Carmelo Anthony’s Boss NBA Style. The Knicks and Clippers are two franchises at desperate crossroads. One is plummeting despite its best efforts to retool. The other is a perennial bridesmaid that seems headed for another inward collapse. Melo is the lynchpin of the Knicks, indispensable for the moment but never quite cut out to carry a team (or blessed with the right one to carry). He’s been more than willing to cooperate with Kristaps Porzingis—but the Knicks offense still runs ...

When We Win, It's Us; When We Lose, It's Me

... The clip went viral. After the crushing loss to the Bucks, Anthony opted not to liken this losing streak to others New York has had in the past couple of years, and he painted himself as an easy scapegoat when things go wrong, via The Record's Steve Popper. "We're not going to let anything seep into this locker room as far as negativity," Anthony said. "I don't even want to think about last year or the year before, those situations. I know right now we're not going to allow ourselves to get down, especially with the guys on this team. We know how to react to situations like this. So it's just a matter of sometimes when things are not going your way they're not going your way. We've got to figure out a way to get out of that.". "It is what it is," Anthony told reporters Thursday. "Regardless of what happens when we win, it's us. When we lose, it's me.". Carmelo Anthony's Knicks have lost six in a row. USATSI. A few ...