New York Knicks star forward Carmelo Anthony will have an opportunity to play alongside newest Golden State Warrior Kevin Durant on Team USA in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But that's as close as he'll get to having him as a teammate after Durant's free-agent drama saw him go to the defending Western Conference champions after taking meetings in the Hamptons with numerous teams out on Long Island, New York.
On Tuesday, Anthony spoke with Marc Berman of the New York Post about his recruitment of Durant for the Knicks in June, who did not have a meeting with him and stressed that the former Oklahoma City Thunder man shouldn't receive any backlash for his decision:
I don’t think you guys know the backstory. I don’t want to get into all of that as far as not meeting with us or meeting with us. I don’t want to get into all those details. We talked. Me and him talked. We were in constant communication. We were together. And he made his decision. Anybody to judge that is wrong. He made a decision based on what he felt was good for himself at this time of his career and he made that.
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Carmelo Anthony Discusses Recruitment of Kevin Durant
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