Carmelo Anthony won’t lack offers this summer if the Los Angeles Lakers decide not to bring him back for the 2022-23 season. According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, the first in line to sign the veteran might be the New York Knicks.
Berman reports that the Knicks brass is having a discussion about Anthony and that the team is thinking about making him an offer in free agency. The Brooklyn native is a fan favorite in Madison Square Garden but has also been effective in recent years as a bench player and could lift the Knicks’ second unit with his scoring ability.
Anthony is coming off a solid season despite the Lakers’ disastrous campaign in 2021-22. The 38-year-old played 69 games and averaged 13.3 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 1.0 assists per contest.
Carmelo Anthony previously spent seven seasons with the Knicks before being traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder ahead of the 2017-18 season. He made the NBA All-Star team in every year he spent in New York while also receiving All-NBA Second Team honors and taking the NBA scoring title in 2012–13. Anthony led the Knicks to Eastern Conference Semifinals in the same year, which remains the franchise’s biggest success since Conference Finals in 1999-00.
