Previewing What New York Knicks Fans Should Expect Without Carmelo Anthony

February 10th, 2015 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »

After weeks of delaying the inevitable, the New York Knicks are about to find out how drastically different life without Carmelo Anthony will be.

Sitting Anthony has snowballed into an unavoidable fact. Left knee soreness has been dogging him all season, reaching fever pitch in January, when he missed the Knicks' first six games and admitted surgery would be his "only option" at some point, per the New York Daily News' Frank Isola.

Rest days have been sprinkled in over the last few weeks as the Knicks try to preserve Anthony's body. The goal, while seldom acknowledged, has become clear: Survive until the All-Star break, and then go from there.

If at any point the Knicks or Anthony were thinking, hoping or banking on the superstar remaining available beyond then, they were delivered another dose of truth in Monday's loss to the Miami Heat. Anthony left the game during the fourth quarter and never returned.

Familiar pessimism then polluted the locker room afterward, per Bleacher Report's Ethan Skolnick:



As for when Anthony will actually shut it down, well, that remains a mystery ...

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