When your player ranking almost matches your team’s 2014-15 win total (17, that is, at the Knicks’ worst)? Most NBA players might be happy with that.
Not Knicks star Carmelo Anthony, who lashed out at SLAM Magazine Wednesday for listing him at No. 15 on their NBA Top 50 rankings.
“@slamonline lost all credibility in my (eyes emoji),” Anthony commented on SLAM’s tweet with a link to the story. “don’t play yaself,” he added in a separate post.
In their defense of Anthony’s placement, SLAM explained that, while the nine-time All-Star is no doubt an elite player, he slips below the league’s best because he has proven himself a “frustrating underachiever” to a Knicks fanbase that anointed him its savior in 2010.