"It hasn't sunk in, the fact that I'm a New York Knick. I feel like I'm still dreaming right now. It was a dream come true for myself." Those words were from Carmelo Anthony's introductory press conference on February 23, 2011, a day after being traded from the Denver Nuggets. This weekend, Anthony's dream has come to an acrimonious end. On Saturday, two days before the start of training camp, Anthony was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder. According to league officials, the Thunder will send Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott and a 2018 second-round pick (via the Chicago Bulls) to New York. Anthony will waive his no-trade clause and his $8 million trade kicker to complete the deal. Anthony won't have to wait long to get his revenge; …show more content…
The Knicks missed the playoffs in Anthony's final four seasons, with a dismal record of 117-211. There were far too many occasions where he would disregard the play and revert to isolation basketball, especially during crunch time. He was never a willing defender; and displayed the same poor defensive habits he's always had since coming to the league. He didn't always fight over screens, lost sight of his man too often and consistently failed to contest shooters. Remember this? Last season, Anthony finished 66 out of 70 qualified small forwards in ESPN's defensive real plus-minus. He has always opted to do what was best for him financially, including demanding a trade to the Knicks in the middle of the season (instead of waiting to sign with the Knicks in Summer), which gutted them all of their assets, in order to sign a three-year, $65 million extension. In 2015, he waited until after the all-star break before deciding to have season ending knee surgery, which slowed him down the next two seasons. Some may point to the constant turnover during Anthony's tenure. During his seven seasons; Anthony played under five different coaches and 72 different players. Seventy-two!!! He and Phil Jackson had one of the most dysfunctional relationships in sports history. To his credit, Anthony handled Phil Jackson's public criticism
“Obviously I had a lot of success last year at the Cowboys but I felt it was the right move for me and my family.”
The most striking improvements are to his eFG%, or effective field-goal percentage, which adjusts field-goal percentage by giving more value to 3-pointers, and PER, or player efficiency rating, which measures a player's overall production. Curry's 36.2 PER is 6.2 better than any other player's. The league average is 15.
None of that carried over to 2014-15, though, with the Raptors dropping all the way to 23rd (104.8). It became clear that a majority of players on the team were incapable of executing on the defensive end, which was surprising considering a large percentage of the roster returned from the year before.
Surprisingly, it was the Mavericks that met the injured players monetary demands and agreed to a four year, $70 million contract in July. This is a risky move for a player that just suffered such a serious injury, but the Maverick's feel that Matthew's upside and history of toughness makes the deal worth the risk.
overconfident of himself and started being really cocky with his actions. The influences that I
"He's obviously the MVP of his conference, the OVC. So he's a really good player."
The 5-foot-9, 207-pound Cold Spring native did not make the squad’s active roster last year and was relegated to the practice team all season. He passed up chances to move to another team for which Dallas recompensed him with a two-year, $1.5 million contract.
Ikonte tried to play with four fouls but him sitting out for so long showed as he didn’t have the same consistency as he did in the first half.
The Bulls once again made the playoffs, for the second consecutive season in the 2009–10 season,while finishing off with a 41–41 record sitting right at .500. In the playoffs Rose averaged 26.8 points and 7.2 assists, but the Bulls lost in five games to the Might Cleveland Cavaliers led by the Bulls worst memory...Lebron James.
When the time came that he can play basketball again, he became afraid of physical contacts that might hurt him again. Then it lowered his performance. In addition, his rival teammate had transferred to another school. It maybe because he felt wrong, or maybe because other students bullied him because of the
great athlete but some things that happened in his youth were tell-tale signs of what
The Lithuania native played all four years at Evansville. He was at his most productive as a junior and senior, when he was selected to the first team of the Missouri Valley Conference. In his final season with the Purple Aces, he was named the conference's Defensive Player of the Year. He led the entire NCAA in rebounds, and his per-40 numbers paint a vivid picture of just how dominant he was at that level. During his four years at Evansville, he averaged 11.1 PPG, 9.3 RPG and 2.2 BPG. Somewhat surprisingly, he went undrafted at the 2016 NBA draft.
The second one is from Larry Bird: “He is a person who can make me feel that he eventually would be able to transcend our all in the alliance”- Larry bird
The Rockets decided to take what they could get, as opposed to beating the Spurs solely off the three point line. When Spurs players closed out, the Rockets penetrated, leading to 72 points scored inside the arc and in the paint in a crucial series tying game 4 win. Last night, the Spurs and Rockets met each others' match in Game 5. Having exposed each other's' weaknesses and made their own respective changes, the game went into overtime, where, you guessed it, coaching played a major role in the outcome. Late in the fourth quarter, Pop pulled Kawhi Leonard from the game due to an ailment. He proceeded to run a post-entry, screen away offense, dumping the ball into Lamarcus Aldridge to attract the double team and set up shooters on the wing. On the other side of the ball however, D'Antoni committed perhaps a coaching dud. Playing only 7 players showed lack of confidence in his bench, especially with the injury to Nene. Also, taking Ryan Anderson out of the starting lineup had adverse effects on the boards, losing that battle as a team (52 to 47
The Nets got off to a really shaky start to the season, and things weren’t looking good. Coach Hollins was not pleased with the team, and was especially upset with his star center Brook Lopez. It got to a point to where he even benched Lopez for a while.