Elias Bureau: Among players to average at least 20 points in their regular season career, Carmelo Anthony has the lowest postseason win percentage in NBA history (minimum 10 postseason games played). Anthony has gone 17-37 overall, including 1-8 with the Knicks. Ten of Anthony’s 17 wins came in 2009, when he helped lead the Nuggets to the Western Conference Finals before losing to the Lakers in six games.
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The power of NBA TV and International League Pass. 4 play off like games at the same time. And the Knicks won a huge game against Milwaukee. This day started so well.
Go Knicks!
Ps. And I still dislike Melo.
As feared, The Melo Effect has spoiled Linsanity. D’Antoni has allowed the offense to revert to Anthony’s liking, where he controlled the flow in San Antonio with 24 shot attempts. Point guard Jeremy Lin did not make an impact as Anthony became chief decision-maker. Anthony’s lack of defensive instincts is also contributing to the losing as the club plays with less spirit on that end. With the trade deadline Thursday, the Knicks don’t need to add another player to their overcrowded rotation, but they could use a chemistry kit for D’Antoni. If the Anthony/Lin combo doesn’t click into victories, owner James Dolan will have to sort out the Lin-Anthony-D’Antoni triangle this summer. Dolan will have to decide whether to seek trade offers for Melo or just get rid of D’Antoni while figuring out if Lin, a free agent, is the starting point guard of the future or a product of D’Antoni’s speedball offense. It has become clear Anthony doesn’t agree with D’Antoni’s system and it’s become clearer D’Antoni is afraid of criticizing Anthony.
Mark Berman z NY Post to stara dziennikarska szmata, ale pisze cos co kazdy fan Knicksow widzi i krwawi serce. Dla mnie Melo jest zbywalny do 15.03, pozostawic zespol bez niego i od razu lepiej. Melo = wrzod.
Carmelo Anthony dragging down the New York Knicks and not working well with Jeremy Lin - NYPOST.com
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Lin’s record in his six games at Harvard against Cornell: 1-5.
Lin’s record in his first six games as a starting point guard in the NBA: 6-0.
Points scored by Lin in his first five starts — the most by any player since the NBA and ABA merger in 1976: 136.
Number of Twitter followers Lin had on Feb. 1: 28,505.
Number of Twitter followers he has now: nearly 600,000.
The value of Lin’s name as a brand: $14 million.
Amount in salary Lin makes per game: $9,620.
Amount in salary Knicks teammate Carmelo Anthony makes:$225,836.
Average Knicks ticket price at Madison Square Garden before “Linsanity”: $229.72.
Average Knicks ticket price two weeks later: $313.54.
Average ticket price for the Knicks’ game against the Heat Feb. 23 in Miami: $612.23.
Median weekly household income in America: $962.42.
Linsanity in numbers
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This is one of the underrated Linsanity subplots — here’s Carmelo Anthony, one of the league’s best scorers and someone who desperately wanted to play in New York2 … only it didn’t go well from Day 1 … only now, he’s been given this mulligan (in every respect) because of Lin’s ascent … only every Knicks fan is terrified that Carmelo is going to screw this up … and by the way, if he messes it up even for one game, they’re going to turn on him faster than women turned on Angelina after she broke up Brad and Jen. Can you remember an NBA star dealing with more pressure from his own fans in the regular season than Melo playing his first MSG/Linsanity game? They will turn on him immediately if he screws it up. Repeat: immediately. But here’s the fun part: Carmelo is really, really good. We saw him rise to the occasion during the 2008 Olympics: Give him good teammates, a great crowd and a little pressure and he will NOT shrink from the moment (…) We also haven’t seen Melo play with a point guard who can get him open jumpers or fast-break layups since he left Denver. So on paper, this partnership should work. But if New Yorkers turn on him and make him feel like it’s a no-win situation from Game 1? He’ll take it personally, he’ll get a little sulky … and this will spiral toward a bad place… (But) I have enough faith in Carmelo’s basketball DNA to say this with complete confidence: He will rise to the occasion. He will. You watch
Bill Simmons on Melo & Lin
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The slide is up to six games now after a 119-114 double-overtime loss that completed an 0-4 homestand. This one was a bit different, with Anthony hearing boos after some poor shot selection and the Knicks being done in by Danilo Gallinari, part of the oversized package that was sent to Denver for an overrated player who could land the Knicks back in the salary cap hell they were stuck in for a decade.
Nie rozumiem jak Amare moze oddawac 9 rzutow w meczu a Melo rzucac majac w pewnym momencie skutecznosc 3/16. Po prostu zart ci moi Knicks w tym sezonie
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I enjoy going against Melo, because I always win.
Kobe Bryant following the Lakers win against the Knicks (via Associate Press) -
I hate you Kobe.
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Fuck you Kobe
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