Gone are the days when a team drafted a superstar and they stayed with that team through their prime career.
Michael Jordan on the Chicago Bulls. Magic Johnson as a Los Angeles Laker. Patrick Ewing as a member of the New York Knicks (remember when he wore a Seattle Supersonics uniform well past his prime? That was as awkward as a 40-year-old watching MTV’s Skins). Larry Bird on the Boston Celtics.
Heck, they even came up with the Bird exception just so they could keep him in Boston. How things have changed.
Now we have superstars holding teams for ransom, and there’s really nothing the teams can do about it. Carmelo Anthony is the latest player that has grown tired of the team that he has played for his whole career, and now he wants out.
He is even giving up potentially millions and millions of dollars depending on what transpires this summer in Denver. Now it’s up to the teams to recruit Carmelo to come to their city and away from New York. What else can the Nuggets do but give him permission to talk to other teams so they don’t lose him for nothing and become the Cleveland Cavaliers of the West.
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