[Undefeated] Pissed Off Melo has a message for you: ‘I know how to play this game of basketball’

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Pissed Off Melo has a message for you: ‘I know how to play this game of basketball’
He has never entered an NBA season with this many people writing him off

By Jemele Hill @jemelehill July 26, 2018

Last month, Carmelo Anthony posted a picture of himself on Instagram sipping a glass of red wine, looking as if he was living his best life. The caption read: “MOOD. All critics can DUCK SICK.”

Not exactly subtle.

“Yes, duck sick,” he said, laughing. “And there’s more of that coming.”

Anthony has spent a considerable portion of his career in a vortex of criticism, but in this next stage, Melo could potentially undo some of the damage that’s been done in the past year to his already complicated legacy.

Hours after a three-team trade that sent Anthony to the Atlanta Hawks became official, he sounded like someone who had gone through the multiple stages of grief and had finally landed at acceptance.

“To get bought out, to get waived, you were looked at like you’re done,” said Anthony, who was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to attend a private Nike event. “Now, it’s just almost like the norm. If something doesn’t work, go ahead and get a buyout or go ahead and get traded. That’s the new norm in our society in basketball. I had to get over that. I had a conversation with my wife and family. I said to them, ‘I’m not taking no buyout, I’m not getting waived.’ And they said, ‘At the end of the day, nobody is going to know that. You have to do what you have to do. It’s going to be a blip on your radar. It’s on to the next chapter.’ It took me a while to get to that point where I’m like, OK, I’m going to accept it.”

The Hawks won’t even be a sentence in Anthony’s biography. The team is expected to waive him, and once he clears waivers he’ll be an unrestricted free agent.

All signs point toward Anthony signing with the Houston Rockets, which presents Anthony with one of the most intriguing opportunities of his career.

“Obviously we’re just trying to figure it out,” Anthony said. “Everybody knows about the trade to Atlanta. I think everything is trying to get cleared right now. I’ll let the people do what they do. I just sit back, and when the time comes and the call gets made, we’ll make that move.”

Melo is at a fascinating crossroads. He is 34 years old and coming off arguably his worst season, with career lows in overall field goal percentage and 3-point shooting.

Now the player who has had a reputation for only caring about his money and his touches could be playing for a team that will be considered a championship contender. And for the veteran’s minimum.

Make no mistake, Melo will still get the $27.9 million the Oklahoma City Thunder owe him — if you’ve learned anything from his career, then you know he doesn’t leave money on the table — but Melo has never entered an NBA season with this many people writing him off. Forget about Hoodie Melo or Olympic Melo. We might meet Pissed Off Melo, should he go to Houston.
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