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After playing the first seven and a half years of his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets, superstar forward Carmelo Anthony was traded to the New York Knicks, which was a move that had been rumored for some time before it actually came to fruition.
Although Anthony ended his career in the league bouncing from team to team in the final five years of his playing days, he did make an impression in New York as the face of the Knicks before playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers.
Anthony didn’t win an NBA title during his time in the league, which is something that puts him in the same category as Charles Barkley, but he definitely made a lot of money over the course of two decades that will make retirement quite comfortable for the future Hall of Famer.
Rising star Jalen Brunson has become the new face of the Knicks and recently took a massive pay cut to keep the team flexible, which Anthony admits he wouldn’t have done on Podcast P with Paul George via NBA Central.
“I’m not doing it,” Anthony said. “I don’t know the logic and the thinking behind why he did it because there has to be a reason. There has to be something very specific.”
Carmelo Anthony says he wouldn’t have taken the $113M pay cut that Jalen Brunson took with the Knicks
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Brunson did something that isn’t seen done by superstars in the NBA today, which is why it was so shocking and admirable, as players don’t want to leave any money on the table.
It’ll be interesting to see whether Brunson’s move helps the Knicks in the future and whether New York can contend from here on out.
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