Carmelo Anthony is done for the year. (USATSI)
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The Knicks announed on Tuesday that forward Carmelo Anthony is done for the remaining two games of the season with a torn labrum.
An MRI to Carmelo Anthony's right shoulder revealed a small tear to his labrum. No surgery is required at this time. (cont)
— NY_KnicksPR (@NY_KnicksPR) April 15, 2014
(cont) Anthony will be re-evaluated in about a month. He will miss the remaining two games.
— NY_KnicksPR (@NY_KnicksPR) April 15, 2014This is the second torn labrum for him in two seasons. Last year he suffered a tear in his left shoulder. He didn't have surgery last year, either. He managed to come back and have a brilliant season this year despite the Knicks' troubles. Anthony has an opt out to become a free agent this summer and that has to factor into the decision.
But overall, there's just no point in Anthony playing. The season is over for the Knicks. Big changes are coming, and one way or another, he and the Knicks need him healthy so they can make decisions about their future together.
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Joe Johnson says he shouldn’t have been laughing on bench during blowout loss to Knicks earlier in season
The last time the Knicks played the Nets, they dealt Brooklyn a 29-point loss back on April 2 that was decided well before halftime.
New York led by more than 30 points at times in the second half, leading to extended garbage time that apparently went on too long for two of the Nets’ veteran players.
Paul Pierce and Joe Johnson were shown during the nationally televised contest having some laughs while on the bench late in the game, and Jeff Van Gundy called them out for their less than professional behavior during the broadcast.
In advance of the final meeting between the two teams this season, Johnson said that Van Gundy was right.
From Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News:
“(Van Gundy’s) probably right. We shouldn’t have been laughing,” said Johnson, who was spotted on television smiling and laughing with teammate Paul Pierce multiple times over the course of 3½ minutes in garbage time of a 29-point defeat at the Garden two weeks ago. “I can’t remember honestly what Paul said, but it had to be super funny for me to laughing and for us to losing the way we were losing.”
The scene on ESPN prompted Van Gundy, a television analyst, to declare on the air, “I don’t think it’s too much to ask that you’re taking it seriously.”He later said it was insulting to Nets fans and was “a horrible look for the league.”
Van Gundy wasn’t appalled or anything, and was merely pointing out that if any die-hard Nets fans were still watching, the reactions of Pierce and Johnson were less than desirable. While it was really just a minor transgression, it’s still nice to see that Johnson recognizes it.
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