Looking forward to seeing Melo in the All-Star game this weekend?! Well it may not happen. Carmelo Anthony said a “deep” right arm contusion he suffered last night may sideline him for Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game. Details after the jump…
According to Ian Begley at ESPN:
The New York Knicks forward suffered the injury early in the first quarter of the Knicks’ 92-88 loss to Toronto when DeMar DeRozan elbowed him in the arm on a drive.
Anthony said he felt numbness throughout the game and called the contusion “kind of deep.”
If he feels discomfort leading up to Sunday evening’s game, Anthony said he would sit out rather than risk further injury.
“I’m not going to force it, definitely not going to force it,” Anthony said. “As bad as I would want to play in the All-Star Game, participate, if I can’t go, I can’t go. Nothing I can do about that.”
“It was kind of like a dead arm out there,” he said. “Just a matter of trying to get through it, trying to get some feeling back into it.”
