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New York Knicks: We Shouldn’t Feel Bad For Carmelo Anthony

By Mohamed Abdirahman

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With the team’s 60th loss of the season coming over the weekend, the New York Knicks made history

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With a loss to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night, the New York Knicks made history. It’ll be the kind of history that will be remembered, but not in a good way.

The Knicks lost their 60th game Saturday night, the most losses in a single season in their franchise history. That’s crazy when you think about the fact that not even the late 2000’s Knicks teams lost that many games in a season (the 07-08 team lost 59 games). After a 37 win season and missing the playoffs, the culture in NYC was expected to change. After all, the Knicks did win 54 games just two years ago. Based on their current winning percentage, the Knicks are only expected to win 15 games, easily the lowest in franchise history.

Now, I’m not going to get into a frenzy about the 60 losses. After all, 96 teams including this year’s Knicks have lost 60 or more games in a season. But it’s been how bad they’ve been on both sides of the ball.

I mean, seriously, they’ve been horrendous.

Which brings me to my main point: you shouldn’t feel sorry for the star of the team Carmelo Anthony. He wasn’t forced into this situation. He had an opportunity to leave this past summer for Chicago — and chose not to. He saw that this team not only wasn’t getting better but was also getting worse, but he chose to stay.

I can understand feeling bad for him last season. Forget about the fact that he forced his way out of Denver in the middle of the season, when he could’ve just waited until free agency to go to the Knicks, forcing New York to give up a ton of assets they could never get back in the process.

He was hurt and the New York Knicks didn’t do anything to help him. We all thought Melo was good as gone when the end of last season. Houston was recruiting him. The Lakers were recruiting him. And as we all know, the Bulls wanted him. But, of course, the temptation of money, lucrative business opportunities and a chance to “expand his brand” were able to convince Melo to stay.

And now we’re at this point. Anthony has complained about knee pain all season, and waited until after the all-star game to get knee surgery. They were rumors swirling around over two months before the AS game that Melo would shut it down when he participated in the contest.

And as we just saw, he did.

The estimated recovery time from surgery for Melo was 4-6 months. That had a lot of people baffled. You waited until you participated in a meaningless all-star game to get surgery, when you could’ve easily got it at the beginning of the season? That put a bad taste in a lot of peoples mouths and made it seem like he cared about himself more than the team.

The New York Knicks season has been over since it began. Knicks fans can’t wait to see what their team will do in free agency. Will they get Rajon Rondo? LaMacrus Aldridge? Marc Gasol? Who knows, but this Knicks season is certainly one to forget.

Not just by Knicks fans, but basketball fans alike.

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