Carmelo On If He's Thought About Future With Bulls: 'Not At All'
The Bulls need offense. Carmelo can score. Is there any connection?
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The Bulls need offense. Carmelo can score. Is there any connection?
Local cable providers love to remind us that we have nine - yes, nine - professional sports clubs, a way of persuading us to click on this package or that so we can view the screen-in-screen horror we call baseball, football, and basketball.
Carmelo Anthony had 30 points and 10 rebounds, and the New York Knicks pulled out an 83-78 victory over the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night after blowing a 23-point lead.
Anthony first hurt his left shoulder on April 14 against the Pacers. Now it seems he played the entire playoff run -- 12 games -- with a partially torn labrum.
With the game, series, or season on the line, would you rather have Carmelo Anthony or Kevin Durant on your squad?
The Celtics need a pick-me-up after losing the opening two games of their first-round playoff series against the Knicks. The city of Boston could use one, too, after a traumatic two weeks of bombings and manhunts and grieving.
With more than 50 wins for the New York Knicks and more than 27 points per game for himself, the numbers back Melo up. The Knicks won a division title, and Anthony will add the scoring title after the regular season ends Wednesday.
The Knicks should have their size back in time for their playoff opener, with Tyson Chandler and Kenyon Martin both on the mend.
No Tebow, no Paterno, no "Linsanity."
As Team USA gears up for the biggest sporting events of their lives in London, they need some motivation to push themselves in ways they never have before. Our Olympians use music to push their training to the next level in every workout and warmup. Get into the minds of our mightiest athletes by taking a peek at their Pregame Playlists.
Check out the video below of Carmelo Anthony scaring people by pretending to be a wax figure.
Knicks coach Mike Woodson has confirmed that point guard Jeremy Lin will not play in the first round of the NBA playoffs. If the Knicks manage to advance, however, it is undetermined whether the 23-year-old will be able to suit up and take the floor.
J.R. Smith scored 22 points for the Knicks, who pulled away in the second half to clinch the Eastern Conference's No. 7 seed and a first-round playoff matchup against No. 2 Miami beginning Saturday.
The biggest question for Knicks fans: do you want your team to face the Chicago Bulls or Miami Heat?
When you're the biggest off-season addition for a team that led the NBA in wins a season ago, expectations are high.
No need to be too concerned about the outcome, really, since one made free-throw at the end of regulation flips the script.
Carmelo Anthony called it a statement game, and the message should be clear for the Chicago Bulls. If they do meet in the playoffs, the Bulls better finish off Anthony and the Knicks when they have the chance.
Some players get named to the All-Star roster based on name recognition alone, while others—even when they are putting up "career numbers"—won't even sniff the game.
Joined by superstars such as Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony, player representatives from NBA teams are meeting to discuss the league's proposal for a new labor deal.
As it seems more and more likely the players will not take the owners' recent 50-50 revenue split, the likelihood of there being a season will continue to drop, but that doesn't mean the ball will stop bouncing for LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, and others.
David Stern and Billy Hunter are still hard at work trying to save the NBA season but it appears that many of the league's top stars are getting ready to hit the road for a two-week world tour that will consist of six games spanning across four continents.
Several NBA coaches have turned in stellar performances this season, but Tom Thibodeau and George Karl have risen above the rest
The Chicago Bulls defeated the New York Knicks on Tuesday night to bring their regular season record to 61-20.
The Chicago Bulls have had a great season so far, they've reached the 60-win mark, clinched the Eastern Conference's No. 1 seed and have the frontrunner for the league's MVP award.
