Carmelo Anthony's return to the NBA is barely two weeks old, and he''s turning back the clock

Things are looking up Carmelo Anthony is turning back the clock, and the Trailblazers  are looking as good as they have all season.The crowd in Portland have been on their feet chanting "Melo, Melo, Melo" as Carmelo Anthony checks out of the game.

Seeing Carmelo Anthony play this well for 3 straight games (all POR wins) makes most more perplexed about what went down in HOU - & why he was unemployed for so long. Goes to show you how teams can latch on to an unfair/inaccurate narrative & not let go to their own detriment.

In the span of just two seasons, Anthony had went from a 20 point per game scorer, a feature on the Knicks squad, and having the potential to be one of the best players on a championship team to being a salary cap filler for a trade

Anthony’s career hit controversy almost right away, when he signed a five-year, $80 million deal to stay with the Denver Nuggets after his rookie contract had expired.

Many NBA players were upset that Carmelo Anthony has not been signed..Kawhi Leonard didn’t like how Carmelo Anthony was out of the NBA: “I'm just happy for him that he was able to get back in the NBA. It is well-deserved. I don't think he was treated the right way, how they left him out there being a future Hall of Famer.”

“I think I would be at peace. Right now, I’m in limbo … but if I know that this was it, I would have to be at peace with that. I wouldn’t have to be in limbo anymore.

“Right now I don’t know that so it’s hard for me to focus on anything other than keeping my body right and keeping my mind right.”

In that struggle, Anthony is showing everyone that there isn’t any setback too big to work back from. He’s a player that deserves another chance, but instead of sitting around and whining about his situation.

Anthony arrived in the NBA seeming like as sure a Hall of Fame bet as they come. Now he’s being brushed out of it as unceremoniously as a player possibly could be. Shortly after the New York Knicks traded for Carmelo Anthony in February 2011.

Anthony wasn’t a free agent for a month before the Rockets signed him...Anthony signed with the Houston Rockets after clearing waivers in a trade that shipped him from the Thunder to the Atlanta Hawks.

The string of bad luck continued for Carmelo in the 2018-19 season. He played only 10 games with the Rockets. Still, in that short run Carmelo seemed to prove he can still play, recording season highs of 28 points, 10 rebounds, and two assists in his first game in November.

One problem that arose while on the Rockets was the idea of Anthony starting the game on the bench. Of his 10 games, he only started two and according to Anthony, that came as a bit of a surprise.

After signing with the Rockets he was later dealt to the Chicago Bulls before the NBA trade deadline. He’s played on three teams over the last three years and more recently, has been downgraded from a bona fide starter to a rotation player.

He played just one season with the Thunder, starting in all 78 games that he played. ..Carmelo Anthony, once the savior of the Knicks franchise, is now just a broken-down old basketball player no one wants anymore. Just a season after flaming out in a complementary role in Oklahoma City

They brought him on for one year on a veteran’s minimum contract. In one season, he went from being paid $26 million to just $2.4 million.

He’s played on three teams over the last three years and more recently, has been downgraded from a bona fide starter to a rotation player coming off the bench to now not being on an NBA team since the Houston Rockets sent him home in November 2018.

Anthony’s career hit controversy almost right away, when he signed a five-year, $80 million deal to stay with the Denver Nuggets after his rookie contract had expired.

The deal raised some questions at the time, because Anthony’s friends LeBron James and Dwyane Wade both encouraged him to take a shorter three-year deal with a player option for a fourth year.

In New York, Anthony flourished, and he had his sights set on winning a championship when his contract came up in the summer of 2014, and he hoped to do it with the Chicago Bulls.

“I was going to Chicago. Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, I was off to Chicago. Then I started getting rumors that this guy is going and that guy is going.”

Carmelo’s problems began shortly before the 2017-18 season. In September 2017, the Knicks traded Anthony to the Oklahoma City Thunder, in a deal that saw Enes Kanter and Doug McDermott go to New York.

He played just one season with the Thunder, starting in all 78 games that he played. However, while there, Anthony’s stats hit a dramatic decline.

He went from averaging 22.4 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 2.9 assists per game on 43.3 percent field goal shooting in 2016-17, to just 16.2 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game on 40.4 percent shooting.

After that season, the Thunder sent him to the Atlanta Hawks, where just five days later he was waived.

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