Carmelo Anthony, whose ties to the Bulls run deep, officially retired from the NBA.
The Bulls rolled out the red carpet for Anthony's anticipated free-agent visit on a gorgeous summer day in 2014. Banners with pictures of Anthony in a Bulls' No. 7 uniform lined Madison Street. Derrick Rose even joined in a brief recruiting pitch for Anthony, an atypical move for the loyal and mild-mannered Rose. And Anthony donned a hard hat alongside then-coach Tom Thibodeau to tour the unfinished, but soon-to-be-gleaming Advocate Center.
"I was going to Chicago. Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, I was there, right? I was there," Anthony said."And then I started getting whispers behind the scenes. 'Yo, look, this person ain't gonna be there. It ain't really right.' This and that. It was all of that started to come up in the midst of my decision making. I wasn't gonna let anything cloud that," Anthony told Smith."I met with New York last.
Anthony, who spent the 2017-18 season with Billy Donovan in Oklahoma City, retires as the ninth-leading scorer in NBA history. He's also one of the most decorated players in USA Basketball history, winning three gold and one bronze medal at four Olympics ranging from 2004 in Athens to 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
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