Carmelo Anthony Is Too Unselfish To Tell You He’s Leaving The Laughingstock Knicks, Which He Is Definitely Going To Do

In October the New York Giants were 1-6 and had replaced the Jets in the Big Apple’s football basement—if only temporarily. Yet safety Antrel Rolle remained surprisingly optimistic about the season, saying confidently, “We have to win out.”

It wasn’t just lip service either. In laying out the case for the G-Men, Rolle was extremely convincing in his assertion that one win was all they needed to build on moving forward. You could say Knicks‘ superstar Carmelo Anthony’s approach is the exact opposite of that.

The Knicks have struggled mightily in the first month of the season and are currently the bottom of the barrel in the Atlantic Division at 4-13. No small accomplishment given the rebuilding Celtics are in first place at 8-12. That’s one mighty sucky barrel.

After such an abysmal start everyone is asking: What’s wrong with the Knicks? Why do the Knicks suck so bad? Why can’t the Knicks ever seem to get it together? Why don’t the Knicks just kill themselves and finally put us out of their misery? Same questions, different year.

Everyone, that is, except for Anthony. In October he expressed his desire to be fawned over in free agency, though he denied that equated to a desire to leave New York. Six weeks later Melo is still parroting the same vague denials, but there’s nothing to suggest he’s invested in the longterm future of this team.

Anthony isn’t the least bit concerned with figuring out what’s wrong with the Knicks anymore, let alone trying to fix it. The only thing he seems interesting in doing is pointing out how bad they are and publicly distancing himself from the slow motion train wreck their season has been thus far.

And as the Knicks get worse, so does Anthony’s rhetoric. In mid-November he said, “We’re not playing worth a shit right now.” In late November he said, “We are in a dark place.” A week later he called the Knicks the “laughingstock” of the NBA, expressing shock that TNT was giving them a national audience.

LOOOOOLZ, H8ers

Anthony thinks the veteran leadership-impaired Knicks—his words, not mine—are “playing to lose rather than playing to win right now.” Perhaps he’d have enough time to provide some much needed veteran leadership if he wasn’t so busy laughing at all his commenting haters on Instagram.

But ya know…priorities.

This week ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith said he’s heard from multiple sources that Anthony had already made up his mind to leave. The Knicks star again denied that any definitive decision has been made. Saying that it would be “selfish” to “even have that thought coming across [his] mind.”

Which was literally the least he could do.

He could’ve said he’s probably staying and given the people what they want. But that would’ve been a lie. He could’ve said he was probably leaving and given the people some time to adjust an unavoidable reality. But that would’ve just been too damn honest.

Instead Anthony gave the people some self-serving platitudes, which are always best espoused from atop one’s high horse on the highest point of the moral high ground. You see it would be selfish for Melo to tell you he’s already made up his mind and Melo doesn’t want you to think he’s selfish. 

Even though you already know he is.

So Melo is going to wait till the end of the season to tell you the thing that he already knows, but doesn’t want you to know that he already knows. Because that is obviously going to make this all so much better for everyone in the end.

Carmelo Anthony…the dude is a saint.