A few weeks into the 2014-15 season, a handwritten message appeared on the whiteboard in the New York Knicks' locker room.
"The pain that you have been feeling can't compare to the joy that's coming .... Romans 8:18."
The message was designed to give hope to a Knicks team in the opening stages of a freefall, but the words take on a new meaning now for Carmelo Anthony as he heads to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott and a 2018 second-rounder.
It's a transaction that shakes up the NBA and makes a Western Conference power even more dangerous.