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Carmelo Anthony has no problem with New York Knicks owner James Dolan recording his conversations on the basketball court.

The Lakers' season is already being sized for a casket. Should they risk losing Howard for nothing? Or trade him just five months after he arrived? Do you feel another Dwight-mare coming on?

It was a phone call between friends. On one end of the line: Five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant. On the other end: Carmelo Anthony, frustrated and a bit overwhelmed in the fishbowl of New York. Bryant sensed something was amiss with Anthony...

It was a year that provided plenty of personalities, story lines, and moments, but the question is, which of those moments got their due and which did not? Could LeBron James actually be underrated? Could the Olympics? They just might be. Underrated...

The past year-and-a-half didn't flow as well as Carmelo Anthony would've hoped. He was traded to the Knicks halfway through the 2010-11 season and had to adjust on the fly, and then faced a shortened schedule in 2011-12, which featured ups and downs ...

If there's one thing Carmelo Anthony will take away from playing under Mike D'Antoni, it's this: He realized how good he could be as a 3-point shooter. From Anthony's trade to New York in February 2011 until the end of the regular season, he shot ...

Recently, Raymond Felton said the last time he was on a close-knit team like this season's Knicks was in 2005, when his North Carolina Tar Heels won the national championship. As John Starks told ESPNNewYork.com recently, the players have accepted...

GREENBURGH -- Carmelo Anthony's widely known as one of the best scorers in basketball. But Mike Woodson doesn't like that label. "I'm trying to get Melo to do everything," Woodson said on Thursday. "I don't want him to be perceived as just a s...

Carmelo Anthony's plan coming into the season was to score less and get his teammates involved more. "I'm done trying to score 30, 35, 40 points for us to win a basketball game," Anthony said in the preseason. "I don't want that role anymore. ......

In ESPN The Magazine's NBA Preview, Tim Keown writes that Knicks star Carmelo Anthony is a master at getting exactly what he wants. But entering his 10th season, does he understand what he needs?

GREENBURGH N.Y. -- Did the London Olympics change Carmelo Anthony? Through one week of training camp, it certainly seems like they did. We won't know anything for sure until they roll the balls out on Nov. 1, but, so far, it sounds as if Anth...

Hakeem Olajuwon, one of the greatest players in NBA history and architect of the legendary "Dream Shake" post move, will visit the Knicks next week to train some of the team's players for several days.

London 2012 was a spectacularly social Olympics, with fans in attendance, fans overseas, athletes on site and individual nations and teams joining in. Naturally, Team USA -- and its prolific medal count -- was right there, sharing not only news bu...

In North America, international basketball is often regarded as a novelty act -- a sideshow with funny rules, bizarre dimensions and lots of guys who look like rockers. Teams run sprawling offensive schemes that often look like something out of an in...

The headlines on Sunday belong to Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant -- and deservedly so. But Carmelo Anthony's role in Team USA winning its second consecutive gold medal shouldn't be ignored. Even with an uneven performance against S...

Kevin Durant scored 30 points, LeBron James added 19 and the U.S. men's basketball team defended its Olympic title, holding off stubborn Spain 107-100 on Sunday for the gold medal -- just as the Americans did in 2008.