Carmelo Anthony is in the final year of his contract with the Denver Nuggets, and as most of us know by now he will not be with the team past this year. This is normally not an uncommon situation in the NBA, where players leave teams via trade and free agency every year. So what makes this instance so different? It's Carmelo Anthony that what makes it so different. He is widely considered one of the top 5 scorers in the entire league. He is so good that he has become too expensive for the Denver Nuggets. Everyone knows all of this, the real question is where will he go next.
Carmelo is easily one of the top 5 scorers in the league as well as one of the top 10 players in the NBA, and at the age of only 26 he is someone that many teams would love to have on their roster. After a stellar high school career at Oak Hill Academy, one of the most prominent basketball high schools around the country, he had a short but unbelievable college career at Syracuse. In 2003, his freshman year, he led Syracuse to their first National Championship, and he was awarded the Most Outstanding Player in the tournament. He was then drafted number 3 overall by the Denver Nuggets in 2003 and he has been the leader of the team ever since.
Carmelo is wanted by many, but the New Jersey Nets and the New York Knicks are the teams pursuing him most heavily right now. The Nuggets have to trade him by the late February deadline or they will receive no compensation for him. They team he wants to go to the Knicks, doesn't have the players that the Nuggets want in exchange for him. The team that does, the Nets, has recently pulled out of the Carmelo sweepstakes, saying it has become too expensive for them. Will he be traded by the deadline, or will we have to wait till the off-season to find out where Carmelo, will be headed.
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