Carmelo Anthony is one of the best scorers in NBA history and will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Like Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant, Anthony deserves a farewell tour since he's given his blood, sweat and tears to the game of basketball.

However, it doesn't appear Anthony is going to go out like Wade and Bryant. Melo hasn't played in an NBA game since November of 2018 and there haven't been any teams interested in signing the 10-time All-Star since he became a free agent in February after getting released by the Chicago Bulls.

One of Anthony's former teammates, who remained anonymous, says Melo doesn't want his NBA career to end like this.

Via Baxter Holmes of ESPN:

And while Anthony believes — or so he said on ESPN — that he'd be “at peace” if he never plays in the league again, he knows that this ending will haunt him, a former teammate over multiple seasons says: “He doesn't want to go out like this.” Wade and Kobe Bryant received a farewell tour, both of them Anthony's close friends. LeBron James, another longtime friend, will likely receive one too. “[Anthony] wants to go out like that,” his former teammate says.

Carmelo Anthony played in just 10 games with the Houston Rockets last season before the franchise exiled and traded him to the Bulls in January.

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Melo averaged 13.4 points and 5.4 rebounds with the Rockets while shooting 40.5 percent from the field, 32.8 percent from beyond the arc and 68.2 percent from the free-throw line.

The 2019-20 season starts next week and Carmelo Anthony is still a free agent. There is a chance we may have seen the last of Anthony in the NBA.

If that's the case, it would be a sad way to see one of the greatest players of all time head out.