Carmelo Anthony believes in the New York Knicks. Do you? Doesn’t matter if you do, truthfully. It won’t be to the extent that he apparently believes in them. Speaking with reporters, New York’s lone superstar, the one who, per various offseason reports, doubted their immediate direction at some point or another, refused to buy into [...]
October 1, 2015
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Of the many, many, many, many things Carmelo Anthony is criticized for, his apparent shortfalls as a leader remain most unsettling. After being traded from the New York Knicks to the Cleveland Cavaliers, J.R. Smith, a known friend of Anthony’s, essentially came out and explained the differences between Melo’s and LeBron James’ leadership qualities. He [...]
September 17, 2015
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Carmelo Anthony doesn’t seem as if he’s in the good graces of Colin Cowherd. On Tuesday’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd, Fox Sports’ newest talking head had something unflattering to say about the New York Knicks superst—er, I mean, the New York Knicks forward, because Cowherd clearly isn’t OK with calling Melo a superstar: "He's [...]
September 16, 2015
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New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis is in Carmelo Anthony’s good graces. That is, so long as being allowed to play five-on-five with Melo at Melo’s gym constitutes as being in Melo’s good graces. We’re going to assume it does. Anyway, here’s the brief low-down from the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Porzingis said he’s [...]
September 8, 2015
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So much for Carmelo Anthony not being committed, or particularly keen on, the New York Knicks’ future. Perhaps he’s still not feeling great and struggling to sustain an optimistic slant in the face of an extensive rebuild that became all too real as soon as the Knicks drafted long-term project Kristaps Porzingis. But, at the [...]
September 7, 2015
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Social media can be fun. It can also suck. This is one of those times when it sucks. Ken Berger of CBS Sports posted an interested question-and-answer piece with many of the stars that attended Team USA’s mini-camp in Las Vegas. It’s an interesting read, one worth more than a cursory glance. One of the [...]
August 21, 2015
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This is so going to happen. Team USA held its usual scrimmage on Thursday night, which went off without a hitch. No one was injured. Every participant walked away healthy, proving, once again, that Paul George’s broken leg in 2014, while tragic, was a freak anomaly. But that’s not why we’re here. Nor are we [...]
August 14, 2015
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Carmelo Anthony, the basketball player, has come under a great deal of fire since the New York Knicks’ offseason kicked off. Naturally, that means Carmelo Anthony, the social-media caper, will have to take over from time to time. Melo has already hit the Instagram comment sections once this summer to refute reports that he was [...]
August 11, 2015
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Carmelo Anthony just isn’t that into you. But he’s definitely into the triangle offense. Part seven of Charlie Rosen’s Phil Files dropped for ESPN.com, and in this edition, New York Knicks president Phil Jackson talked shop on the team’s individual players. And when it came time to rap about Melo, he not only compared him [...]
August 11, 2015
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The New York Knicks have spent a bulk of the NBA offseason acting like an actual team, which, naturally, has brought the future of Carmelo Anthony into question. Kristaps Porzingis and Jerian Grant won’t help the Knicks win now. Robin Lopez and Kyle O’Quinn are not Marc Gasol and LaMarcus Aldridge. Phil Jackson actually gave [...]
August 6, 2015
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