I totally feel Carmelo on this because even as a fan I second guessed myself numerous times this season as to why do I keep watching the Knicks. So I can only imagine the stress and frustration a player on the team would feel. When Carmelo re-signed with the Knicks last summer the last thing he expected was to be part of the worst team in franchise history and one of the worst teams in the league period. Can you imagine where Chicago would be right now if Melo went there? It sounds like Melo has thought about that too.
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It was a rough season for Carmelo Anthony. He played in just 40 games this season and watched as the New York Knicks earned just 17 wins after he signed a five-year, $124 million contract to remain with the team last offseason.
I try to keep myself from thinking like that. But as a human being, those thoughts definitely come into play. You sit down at night and you’re thinking, ‘Did I really make the right decision?’ and just things like that. Not often did I think about that. There was one point in time this season where it was just cloudy and I didn’t really have any clarity; I was second-guessing what I did and the decision I made. But after that, I was smooth sailing.
But Anthony is also looking forward and putting his trust in team president Phil Jackson to turn things around this offseason:
That was one of the reasons I decided to come back. For me to have faith in [Jackson] and believe in his capabilities. [This is] kind of like a clean slate for us and for him. Now we really get a chance and he really gets a chance to put a stamp on what we want this organization to be about, what he wants this team to be about, what players he wants in here.
It is scary to think how good the Bulls would be right now with Melo. They finished third in the east while having multiple players miss many games due to injury. The Bulls problem is usually scoring and obviously Melo would easily have fixed that, but thankfully for Knicks fans he stayed because if he was gone AND this past season turned out the way it did you might have seen Knicks fans converting to Nets fans or just jumping off the George Washington bridge.
