Shoulder tear brings end to Carmelo Anthony's season, and maybe time as Knick

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:NYDailyNews.com
 

If Carmelo Anthony indeed has played his final game as a Knick, this is a doubly painful way for his time in New York to end.
The pending free agent was shut down by the going-home Knicks after an MRI on Tuesday revealed he has a small labrum tear in his right shoulder.
 
Anthony bypassed surgery after he was diagnosed with a torn labrum and rotator cuff in his left shoulder one year ago. The Knicks said he’s also not expected to require surgery for this injury and will be reevaluated in a month.
 
“Obviously, he knew it was bothering him when he hurt it a few weeks ago,” Mike Woodson said. “But he hung in there with us and tried to make this last push to get in the playoffs.”
 
Anthony, who has stated plans to opt out of his contract this summer and test free agency, arrived at Barclays Center just before 7 p.m. But he did not address reporters before the Knicks’ penultimate game of the season against the Nets.
 
"It's hard. Really hard,” Anthony told TNT before the game. “I have a lot to think about."
 
Earlier in the day, when it was unclear whether Anthony would try to play against the Nets or Wednesday against Toronto, Woodson had stressed that he “would probably shut him down” regardless of the diagnosis.

“He don’t need to play,” Woodson added. “I’m (going to) tell him, ‘you’re not gonna play.’ That’s what I’m gonna do.”
Anthony completed his third full year with the Knicks with 27.4 points per game – second in the NBA to Kevin Durant – and a career-high 8.1 rebounds in 77 appearances, but he will not participate in the playoffs for the first time in his 11-year NBA career.
 
“We’ve chatted a little bit and I feel for him more than anybody because of the kind of season that he had,” said Woodson, who is not expected to return as the Knicks’ coach next season. “He deserves to be in the playoffs and I feel bad about that, I do.”
 
Anthony initially injured his shoulder April 2 against the Nets. He’d played the previous four games, including Sunday’s loss to Chicago after the Knicks had been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention.
 
The late-season injury only adds more intrigue for when the 29-year-old perennial All-Star heads into a career-defining decision this summer.
 
The Knicks can pay Anthony $33 million more – a max of $129.1 million over five years -- than another NBA team can offer him in free agency. On Sunday, he called the hiring of Jackson “definitely a big play for our organization, for the Knicks and for me.”
 
Amar’e Stoudemire was in the lineup against the Nets but will sit out Wednesday’s finale for the Knicks, who are playing out the string after missing the playoffs for the first time since 2010.

“It never felt right. In all honestly it never felt right throughout the season,” Tyson Chandler said. “We had some bright spots, but never where we were on the level that we should have been.
 
“It was definitely something we didn’t expect. We all came in with high expectations, high hopes and then we found ourselves in this situation. So it was definitely disappointing.”
 
Chandler, who missed six weeks early in the season with a broken leg, has one year remaining on his contract. The former NBA Defensive Player of the Year indicated he wants to remain with the Knicks rather than be included in a trade to clear salary-cap space.
 
“Of course, I’m signed up to be part of this program,” Chandler said. “I think the future can definitely be bright. I think we have some positive pieces. We just have to understand how to put them together.
 
“I definitely don’t want to waste any seasons. I didn’t want to waste this season. I’m not into wasting seasons. Your time is too short in this league, and I want to win a championship, another one.”

 

 

 

[buzzy]

He's gone imo.

 

[hat-94]

now the knicks are going to lose.

 

[Pugz]

hes out.

 

[Thomas-Panda-Saxby]

#OneMoreYear

 

[Mexi]

If he stays hes not serious about winning

 

[dez]

With Phil Jackson running the show staying in NY, mexi I wouldn't say that..

 

[Pugz]

you have some untradable assets.

 

[buzzy]

Everybody's tradable.

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

 

Carmelo More Concerned About Winning Than Money
Apr 17, 2014 2:09 PM EDT

Carmelo Anthony will enter free agency after not reaching the playoffs for the first time in his NBA career. Anthony has been with the New York Knicks since February of 2011.
 
"I want to come back. I want to come back. But I also want to win," said Anthony.
 
"At this point in my career, I'm not concerned about the money," said Anthony.
 
The Knicks can offer five seasons and $129 million to Anthony.
"I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild."

 

[dez]

All the expirings we have coming off the books can be considered assests, the way Shump/JR played in the 2nd half if the season could play a part

I think he wants to stay, but wants a different team culture.