Carmelo Anthony Rumors
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Position: F
Born: 05/29/84
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:235 lbs. / 106.6 kg.
Salary: $27,928,140
Born: 05/29/84
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:235 lbs. / 106.6 kg.
Salary: $27,928,140
“It really is mostly on me honestly,” Morey said. “I saw the fit there and really didn’t go the way I thought it would. “He can still really help a team. I think just how things evolved in terms of how we were… using him. We thought, we really thought that was gonna work and to be fair to Carmelo, I do really think he can help a team and I think a team is gonna nab him here pretty shortly, is my guess.”
Over this past summer, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, James Harden and a bevy of NBA players made their way to New York to play pickup basketball at the popular event run by trainer Chris Brickley. Anthony invited Antetokounmpo but he decided not to attend. “They wanted me to come, show up, and play and I was like, ‘No. I’m good. Thank you,’ ” Antetokounmpo said. The forward opted to just do his normal routine: “do what I get paid for and get it done.” The choice to turn down the opportunity may not have been particularly notable, but the players he turned down certainly might be.
LeBron wants 'Melo in Los Angeles?
LeBron James would like to get Carmelo Anthony to Los Angeles with him on the Lakers, a league source told The Athletic. Anthony, 34, is estranged from the Houston Rockets – still on their payroll for the league-minimum $2.4 million but gone from the team after the two sides decided he was not a fit after just 10 games. He can’t be traded until at least Dec. 15, and sources said there had been no request made by James to Lakers president Magic Johnson or general manager Rob Pelinka to make a deal for his friend. Nor would there be.
But James and his camp still believe Anthony can play, that there could be a place for him as a contributor on a Lakers’ team that is young and continues to battle injuries. Brandon Ingram is the latest casualty. His sprained left ankle will keep him for at least the next two games.
