The Carmelo Anthony era is officially over. The New York Knicks played their first preseason game without him as their franchise player in more than five years and Anthony played his first game as a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder on the same night.
The ten-time All-Star scored 19 points on 7-of-13 shooting in a loss to the Houston Rockets as Russell Westbrook sat. It is preseason after all. While the Anthony era got underway in OKC, the Kristaps Porzingis–Frank Ntilikina era kicked off in New York.
Knicks fans have been waiting for Frank’s big debut—he missed summer league due to a knee injury—and on Tuesday night they finally got it.