The New York Knicks are a raging, rancid dumpster fire of a franchise. All the fire departments in Manhattan could rush down to 34th Street, and that fire would still rage well into the night without end. Now, we have another story about Carmelo Anthony, the team’s only superstar, that makes the fire burn a little hotter.
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Anthony reached out to rookie Kristaps Porzingis when he was drafted in June, welcoming him to the Knicks (it should have been a tearful apology, but I digress). When Porzingis, who didn’t have Anthony’s phone number, replied by asking who the text came from, he got a response that boggles the mind, according to Bleacher Report.
“Me7o”
That’s right, a grown man worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a man constantly in the spotlight, apparently substitutes the “L” in his first name with a “7”. After seeing this, there are unconfirmed reports that general manager Phil Jackson began frantically trying to trade him before word got out, only to end up dealing every viable asset the Knicks have for a pair of future second-round picks and a deflated basketball without an air pump.
It’s the type of thing that needs to have the Knicks involved, because why wouldn’t they be? You could never imagine a player like LeBron James, Kevin Durant or Stephen Curry texting someone with a number put into the middle of their name. They would simply know that it not only comes off insanely self-absorbed, but is also more embarrassing than going to grade school in shorts and high white socks.
Good times.