Carmelo Anthony

Melo Keeps The Faith Amid Familiar Losing Skid

... look at things we’re [21⁄2] games out of the playoffs right now with still almost half the season to go. That’s the upside of things and that’s the way I look at it.”. The Knicks looked even more dysfunctional after Derrick Rose flew to Chicago on a game night Monday for “a family issue” and refused to pick up his phone when Knicks executives, coaches and players tried contacting him. Anthony said he was concerned about Rose, but he stays out of family situations, and he’s glad his teammate is OK. The Knicks’ on-court problems stem from a lack of defense, low-energy performances and too much one-on-one play on offense. Anthony can be accused of all of the above sometimes. He acknowledged he has to lift his game. Knicks videos. “I always feel like I should be doing more, I want to do more,” Anthony said. “I’m always asking the coaches what else they want me to do, what else they need me to do? I’ll take that responsibility on myself.”. Anthony is averaging a team-high 21.9 points, but he’s shooting a career-low 42.1 percent. He was thrown out of Monday’s loss to the Pelicans. Anthony ...

Carmelo Anthony Reveals He's Dealing With Shoulder Injury

... “It’s bad,” Anthony told the News after Friday’s victory over the Bucks, when the forward nearly put up a triple-double and hit the go-ahead basket in the final minute. “You know what it is, it’s an adjustment that you have to make on the fly. Like some days it feels good, some days it’s tight. Throughout the course of the game, certain shots, certain moves, you feel like the strength isn’t there. So it’s just a matter of figuring out how to play through it. What’s working? What’s not. “It feels good during the game. And then you irritate it. And then you kind of have to work backwards again to get it back stronger. But I’m constant around-the-clock treatment.”. Carmelo Anthony first roughed up his shoulder in a 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. ...

Dwyane Wade Doubts Carmelo Would Waive Knicks No-trade Clause

... (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 ...

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

... 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 ...

Clippers Have Strong Interest In Adding Carmelo Anthony To Big Three

... saga in New York that looks likely to lead to his Knicks exit, and the fact that Dwayne Wade’s Chicago Bulls are mired in mediocrity, Paul is the only 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 be a free agent ...

A Note On Carmelo Anthony’s Trade Kicker

... so I’ll attempt to fill in that gap here. I’ve been asked a few times about Carmelo Anthony’s trade kicker this week. A lot of my first article is based around the idea that the Clippers don’t just have to take back Carmelo’s $24.5 million salary, but rather roughly $29.5 million as a result of Melo’s trade bonus. Here are the basics. First of all, Anthony has a trade kicker worth 15% of his remaining contract. For 41 more games this year and 82 games each of the next two years, Anthony is scheduled to make $66,451,590. 15% of that salary is $9,967,739, and because the final year of Anthony’s deal is following an early termination option, that bonus must be split between the two guaranteed years of his contract. That extra $4,983,869 this year moves his salary up to $29,543,249. In order to match that salary, they’d have to send out about $23,554,600. That one isn’t too rough—what’s rougher is the Clippers’ hard cap situation. The Clippers are hard-capped at $117,287,000 because they used their full non-taxpayer mid-level exception this summer to sign ...

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

... and struggling through Saturday night’s 129-122 defeat to the Rockets. Anthony, who finished with seven points on 3-of-11 shooting, had originally hurt the knee while colliding with Dante Cunningham in Friday’s loss to New Orleans. He had considered sitting out Saturday’s game like Kristaps Porzingis, but insisted on being in the lineup against James Harden and Mike D’Antoni. It turned out to be a mistake, as Anthony’s 19 minutes were defined by bad shots, bad fouls and a limp. Carmelo Anthony never returned from the locker room on Saturday night. (Erik Williams/USA Today Sports). “I was contemplating if I was going to give it a go, give it a shot,” Anthony said. “Then the more that I played, the sorer it got.”. Anthony wasn’t concerned about missing Monday’s home game against Magic. “No, I don’t think it’s that serious,” 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 ...

How To Win With Carmelo Anthony

... you can put around him, the more deadly an offense can be. That construction is a higher priority for a player like Anthony than it is for one like James because 1. James is better and 2. James is more multidimensional player, so he can make his teammates better in more ways than Anthony can. For Anthony, this dynamic between his own scoring and his teammates’ floor spacing is one of the only ways he can use his skill set to power a great offense. Anthony also needs plenty of defense-and-rebounding types around him. For perhaps the platonic ideal of that kind of team, see the roster that Philadelphia 76 ers GM Billy King assembled around Allen Iverson in 2001: Under defense-minded coach Larry Brown, the Sixers rolled out a starting lineup that surrounded A. I. with two great wing defenders (George Lynch and Eric Snow), a great rebounder (Tyrone Hill) and a center (Dikembe Mutombo) who was great at both. ...

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

... 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 thoughts. That first quote is an example of good leadership. New York is obviously in a rough stretch, but the players have to remain optimistic. For Anthony and the others who were on the team for the 17-win season two years ago and the midseason breakdown last year, it must be difficult not to start thinking, "Here we go again." If they do that, though, the Knicks will crumble. As it stands, their 16-19 ...

Carmelo Anthony Is Beating Phil Jackson At His Own Mind Games

... 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 by day. It came down to one play. That shot was in. That shot goes in we’re singing a different tune.”. Phil Jackson's public and cryptic criticism of Carmelo Anthony this season has created a circus-type atmosphere at Madison Square Garden. (Frank Franklin II/AP). But in a year where Jackson desperately wants to get into the playoffs – hence, the deals for Rose and Joakim Noah – it was counterproduct ive for Jackson to be picking a public fight with Carmelo. Unless Jackson’s ultimate goal is to get Carmelo to waive his no-trade clause, which remains a long-shot but is not out of the question. Carmelo left that door open this week when he told Newsday that he would consider a trade if the Knicks decided to rebuild. That makes sense. It was also a stroke of genius because it put the ball back in Jackson’s court. ...

The One Trade That Would Fix Two Teams

... the Clippers! Again! After a promising start to the season, Los Angeles has fallen into disarray. They looked like an elite team for a minute there, blowing the doors off Le Bron and the Cavaliers, bitching a bit less at refs… But then the regression to the mean set in and their liabilities and limitations started haunting them again. And then came Blake Griffin’s knee injury putting him on the shelf for at least two months. And then came Chris Paul’s thumb injury, putting him of the shelf for at least six weeks. 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 ...

Carmelo Anthony’s Traditional Fourth-quarter Fade Sinks Knicks

... 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 back ahead 97-88. With 3:09 left, a Rose turnover was converted into a fast-break bucket for Dallas. Rose stuck to his mantra that offense had nothing to do with the defeat. “Defense — that was the entire game, lack of defense,’ Rose said. “Turning the ball over is one ...