The head of the NBA players’ union, Michele Roberts, believes Knicks president Phil Jackson is trying “to shame” Carmelo Anthony into waiving his no-trade clause.
Jackson said in his end-of-season news conference on April 14 that Anthony “would be better off somewhere else and using his talents somewhere where he can win or chase that championship.”
Those words didn’t sit well with Roberts when Jackson uttered them and still don’t.
“I think Phil was deliberately trying to shame Melo out of the city,” Roberts, the executive direction of the NBA Players Association, said in an interview with The Vertical that was posted on its website Wednesday.