Carmelo Anthony's trade update: Destination unknown
Time is running out, the trade deadline is on Thursday, 24 February, but Carmelo Anthony has still not made to the team he would finally set in. It’s the All-Star Weekend now and all the stars from NBA have gathered at Los Angeles. So, the New York Knicks finally have a confrontation with Anthony. No doubt he is a player who everyone loves, it’s just the drama surrounding him that they don’t prefer. Every player gathered at the All-Stars Weekend is aware of the Melodrama but they are trying their best to avoid it.
The NBA trade deadline to be held on 24 February, the day is coming closer and closer, but Anthony has still not found a better place to fit in to. The player himself is so fed up of all this trade issue that he said, “My mind’s boggled right now about this whole situation. I wish I could get this thing over with right now and I wish there was just something that was just on the table that the Nuggets could just say, ‘OK, let’s get it done.”’ But, Anthony, this trade does come with a price and the price here is patience. Although the All-Star forward has put up a very strong front to the trade talks and has been showing a lot of patience lately but there is a limit to everything. Tough though he may be, but the player is still human being.
The trade talks once again flared up when the Nuggets started a deal with the New Jersey Nets for the third time this season. Every person following the trade-talk, sat waiting for the news to arrive. Even Mikhail Prokhorov was in hopes of meeting Anthony over the weekend, but once again things changed their course. The star himself rejected the proposition that there was “no meeting at all” and mirrored the opinion later when asked about the same question. The player still seems unsure and said that he doesn’t know what he would say even if the meeting was held between both the parties.
Nets and Knicks are the two contenders who are in hot pursuit of Anthony. Although the Knicks are preferable to the star, but the Nets have been struggling to get him ever since he refused to sign a three-year contract extension with Denver in summers of 2010.
The Denver Nuggets have now time until Thursday, before they finally make a decision about the “final destination” of the player. Anthony unwilling as he seem to stay with the Nuggets, even talked about the current team in past tense. So they are already history to him.
The player has lost sleep and the all these trade-thoughts occupy him all the time. He wants to settle with one team that can offer him a suitable price. The player made it clear when he said, “I would love to have a legit offer on the table where they can sit down with me and say, ‘Melo, this is what we have. Let’s try to figure it out.”’
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