This week, the basketball world has been hijacked by news and rumors about Carmelo Anthony. ESPN, CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo Sports and others are all reporting the "news" that Carmelo Anthony will not re-sign with the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets, after watching the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors lost their stars for nothing, are exploring trade options for their own star Carmelo Anthony. The only thing that is slowing down the process is that the Nuggets currently do not have a GM ...
Personally, I found it quite sick when I read about these so-called "news" this week. Carmelo Anthony made it clear last month that he will never ever re-sign with the Denver Nuggets. Even I have blogged here 2 weeks ago that Carmelo has already put his Denver home for sale. If he were to stay with the Nuggets, why is he selling his house? And why would he not sign the 3-year, $65 million contract extension if he knows he might only get half as much when he hits the open market next summer?
These so-called NBA insiders are known to throw out rumors the second they hear about them so that they get credit / paid for these "breaking news". But this time they didn't report the news when they first had it because they simply didn't believe it. They didn't believe Carmelo Anthony, who is a New York native, will give up money for the chance to play for the New York Knicks. Then a month later when they finally believe it, they are all reporting this one-month-old "news" as headline on the same day. This is just crazy ...
This summer has not been kind to NBA teams as many players have decided to play overseas instead. I know this has been a trend for quite some time, but in the past 2 weeks alone we have already lost ...
Last season's NBA players:
Rob Kurz (CHI)
Oleksiy Pecherov (MIN)
Gabe Pruitt (NYK)
Kyle Weaver (OKC)
Robert Swift (OKC)
Taylor Griffin (PHO)
Pops Mensah-Bonsu (TOR)
Rasho Nesterovic (TOR)
This year's draft choices:
James White (DEN)
Jarvis Varnado (MIA)
Keith Gallon (MIL)
Nemanja Bjelica (MIN)
Dwayne Collins (PHO)
Scottie Reynolds (PHO)
And a lot of players are said to be considering playing overseas if they cannot secure a contract within the next 2 weeks ...
This is just an update to the previous blog entry. The 2010 Team USA roster was trimmed down to 13 after cutting Jeff Green and JaVale McGee. And Stephen Curry might have hurt his chance of making the final-12 after spraining his left ankle in today's scrimmage as we are only 10 days away from the 2010 FIBA World Championship in Turkey ...
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