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Carmelo Anthony finally got the record straight as to why he decided not to join the Miami Heat at the height of the Big 3 era of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh, saying he wasn’t mentally prepared to be the fourth option on that star-studded team.
During a podcast episode with Paul George issued on July 22, Anthony confirmed that he and fellow stars James and Wade had talked about joining forces on the same team a few years before the landscape-changing events in the 2010 NBA free agency went down, though he admitted he was uncertain which team they would end up together.
Anthony added that they were looking at the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks as the possible destinations where they would like to team up since these are big market teams.
However, Anthony put himself out of the equation from the Super Team plans when he signed a five-year rookie contract extension with the Denver Nuggets instead of the three-year deals inked by his fellow 2003 Draft classmates. James, Wade, and LeBron would hit the free-agency market three years later, leading up to their highly-publicized union with the Heat.
Anthony said he lauded the sacrifices of his batchmates to take a significant salary cut in order for the Heat to accommodate them into their payroll at that time. LeBron, Wade and Bosh agreed to deals shades below the max salary ranging between $14M.
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