Retired from the NBA courts, Carmelo Anthony now has all the time in the world to look back in detail on his rich career. For his friend Dwyane Wade’s podcast, the All-Star winger looked back on his departure from the Knicks in 2017. Obviously, the pill has still not passed.
If Carmelo Anthony never won anything with the New York Knicks, the winger nonetheless remains a player who left his mark on the Gotham side. 7 seasons, more than 10,000 points with the Knicks and fan favorite status at Madison Square Garden. If the love story between Melo and New York started very well, it did not end very well, mainly due to a conflict between the superstar and the New York president at the time, Phil Jackson.
Between short sentences in the press and internal tensions, the relationship between the two men had reached the point of no return. This notably cost Phil Jackson his job, who was dismissed in June 2017 after a particularly disappointing mandate as sports director. Carmelo Anthony will not even have time to savor the departure of his boss since he will in turn be traded to the Thunder in September of the same year.
At the microphone of his great friend Dwyane Wade’s podcast, Melo returned to his departure from the franchise and he still has a bitter taste but above all a stubborn resentment towards Jackson.
“When I left New York, I didn’t leave New York. I was pushed out of New York, Phil [Jackson] pushed me out of New York. “I had a hard time leaving New York.”
We can understand the guy since the departure of Carmelo Anthony from the Knicks in 2017 (where he notably won his tenth and final All-Star) marks the beginning of the decline of the player’s career, with an increasingly reduced role and experiences at the Thunder, then at the Rockets, at the Blazers and finally at the Lakers with his great friend LeBron James.
We also learn in the video that the winger did not like the Rockets’ way of doing things, who cut him after ten games under the pretext that the fit was not good. After this episode, the winger remained away from the field for several months before being offered a new chance in Portland alongside Damian Lillard.
Source texte : The Why
2024-02-16 13:03:00
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