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Should Carmelo Anthony waive his no-trade clause?
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Maybe we were always going to wind up here.
Maybe there was no other way than for the Knicks to wind up wrapped in a power play between their two icons, Phil Jackson and Carmelo Anthony, while the team toils in sub-.500 miserable mediocrity. This isn't a sudden rupture, but instead a slow build-up that has inevitably resulted in this week's volcano. The starting point guard of the Knicks vanished before a game, without making any contact with anyone, and was reportedly considering walking away from the game for a time, and that isn't even the biggest controversy the team is dealing with.