Carmelo Anthony has been getting quite a few recruiting calls from Joakim
Noah over the past week, but according to people close to the Knicks star, he
hasn’t returned one of them.
We’re guessing Anthony might call Noah back after he officially opts out of
his contract with the Knicks, no later than Monday. Maybe he leaks it out
that he was talking to Noah, too. It’s easy to see why. Anthony wants to be
recruited by the Bulls on July 1 so that he can get Jim Dolan to intercede on
his behalf and tell Phil Jackson he needs to bring Anthony back, at any cost.
That’s our theory and we’re sticking to it. Anthony doesn’t really want to
leave New York, any more than LeBron James wants to leave the Heat. Melo has
it too good here and isn’t ready to abdicate his throne when he’s only
turned 30.
He hasn’t liked some of Jackson’s comments regarding his plans to opt out
and Jackson saying that Anthony should take less money to re-sign. Phil does
talk as if he’s won 11 titles. But those comments are not considered to be
deal-breakers by someone who loves playing on the NBA’s biggest stage and isn
’t ready to walk away from the Garden.
Noah will be disappointed if it turns out that Anthony uses the Bulls merely
to get Dolan to up the Knicks’ offer. But one of his teammates won’t be
crushed. Derrick Rose hasn’t called Anthony once and isn’t expected to do
any recruiting when the Bulls make their run at the Knicks’ top scorer in
free agency.
According to sources close to Kevin Love, Rose’s preference is for the Bulls
to work out a deal as soon as possible for Minnesota’s All-Star forward
because he sees Love as more of a team player than Anthony. Chicago is in the
mix with Golden State for Love, with Boston and Denver considered long shots.
If it makes any difference to Melo, Rose has no plans to recruit Love, who is
free next summer, either. But the Bulls already know whom he’d really prefer
to play with in the future.
Noah最近頻頻打電話向瓜瓜發出招募邀請，但親近瓜瓜的消息人士透露，瓜瓜一直都沒回
Noah的電話。《紐約每日新聞》的記者Mitch Lawrence認為其實瓜瓜的內心並沒打算離開
尼克，他只是想等尼克老闆Jim Dolan親自出馬，要求禪師不惜一切代價將他留下，藉此
來避免續約遭降薪的結果。
Mitch Lawrence還說：「事實上，瓜瓜內心根本就沒打算過離開紐約，他轉隊的機率比
LBJ還要小很多，他還不到30歲，顯然不想早早就失去自己的王權和領袖地位。」
還有消息說公牛的Rose對聯手瓜瓜興趣並不是很大，他更想要和Love做隊友，因為他認為
Love是一個比瓜瓜更好的團隊型球員。
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公牛和火箭變成幫瓜瓜抬轎的?