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Will Carmelo Anthony join the Los Angeles Lakers?
“Carmelo Anthony would’ve been the Lakers top buyout target had they depleted their roster in an Anthony Davis trade,” a league source shared this weekend.
Carmelo Anthony would've been the Lakers top buyout target had they depleted their roster in an Anthony Davis trade. Now that the Lakers brought in Bullock & Muscala, Melo isn't as much of a top priority as before, I’m hearing. pic.twitter.com/3SSr5QAfVy
— Brandon Robinson (@ScoopB) February 9, 2019
“Now that the Lakers brought in Bullock & Muscala, Melo isn’t as much of a top priority as before.”
So what’s next?
“When the time is right he will speak out,” a source close to Carmelo Anthony told me via e-mail last month.
Well, he did.
In an interview with Taryn Finley of the Huffington Post on Friday, Melo suggested he is at peace with the fact he may not play much longer:
“I’m sure [retirement is] coming soon. I’d be sitting lying to you if I said it’s not coming soon. I think I want it to come soon. I don’t think I want to do this forever, but because you love it so much, it’s hard to give it up. At the end of the day, at anything you do, when it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go. But as long as you feel good with that.”
A 10-time NBA All-Star, Anthony signed with the Houston Rockets this summer after clearing waivers in a trade that shipped him from the Oklahoma City Thunder the Atlanta Hawks.
The third overall pick in the 2003 draft, Anthony’s last appearance with the Houston Rockets came in a blowout loss to Oklahoma City on Nov. 8 when he had two points and five rebounds.
NBA analyst Chris Sheridan chatted with me on the Scoop B Radio Podcast in December and said something happened between the team that “they don’t want out yet.”
“Still trying to figure that out,” Sheridan said via Scoop B Radio.
I was in the arena at San Antonio the night he disappeared. They were saying he’s out with the flu. And it actually was a flu bug going around the team. The coach stated that James Harden was sniffling and Chris Paul was too. So there really was a flu bug going around during that game.”
