Former NBA All-Star guard Gilbert Arenas knew Carmelo Anthony playing for the Houston Rockets was going to be a “disaster.”
Anthony played in just 10 games with the Rockets last season before the franchise exiled and traded him.
“I remember the reports named Houston as a possible destination for him to land. I said, ‘Hell no,' don’t go there, it is going be a disaster and it is not going to work,” Arenas told Landon Buford. “You just for the first time in your career played with two ball-dominant players (Russell Westbrook and Paul George in OKC) and it made you the third option. So, to go right back to a team that is going to make you again the third option is a disaster.”
Carmelo Anthony 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. Houston exiled Anthony after its game against the Thunder on Nov. 8, 2018. The Rockets traded Melo to the Chicago Bulls on Jan. 22, 2019.
The Bulls waived Anthony on Feb. 1, 2019. He's been on the open market ever since, but hasn't received interest from any team.
Carmelo Anthony’s future in the NBA is very uncertain, as we are in August and Melo is still an unrestricted free agent.
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