Reports are circulating that the Rockets will be releasing Melo pretty soon.
Rockets fans, please tell me more how he'll be a better fit in Houston than he was in OKC.
I don't know where this dude goes next. He's a bright lights who loves the big city so I'm assuming he tries to catch on with one of the LA teams or possibly Miami. If he just wants to start and/or receive consistent "starter's" minutes, Chicago could be an option.
It really is weird to see this guy be so stubborn about his career at this point in time.
Even if he initially believed last season that he was better than people thought, shouldn't reality hit you when you look on the stat sheet and see how you are hitting career lows across the board for the second straight season?
I know that athletes are typically the last ones to realize that they don't have it anymore, but even Dwyane Wade was willing to accept that he was getting older and began the transition mentally from being an All-Star caliber starter to an off the bench spark type player.
Carmelo Anthony, on the other hand, seems completely oblivious to the fact that he is a declining player and doesn't appear to be willing to give up any ground whatsoever or accept a lesser role.....to the point that he could find himself out of the NBA altogether.
I don't recall ever seeing anything quite like this before.
Yes, there are guys who hang around forever because they refused to give it up, but they are also willing to accept lesser roles and just be on a roster somehow.
This guy really thinks that he is a elite scorer still and should be playing 35 to 40 minutes a night and nothing less.