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http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...ltimatum-forced-mike-antoni-article-1.3150485
Mike D'Antoni says he quit Knicks after Carmelo Anthony's ultimatum
Carmelo Anthony and former Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni didn’t see eye-to-eye during their time together in New York.
(JUSTIN LANE/EPA)
STEFAN BONDY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 10:05 AM
Apparently it was an ultimatum from Carmelo Anthony that led to Mike D’Antoni’s resignation in New York.
D’Antoni made that claim in a long profile published by ESPN, which highlighted his current successful campaign in Houston and included a line that “Anthony said the team needed to choose between him and D’Antoni.”
“I just went in and quit,” D’Antoni said.
This is the second time in two years D’Antoni has placed the blame on Anthony for sabotaging his coaching in New York, claiming on a podcast with The Vertical last summer that players held resentment toward Jeremy Lin and he couldn’t get Anthony to move to power forward to accommodate the point guard.
D'Antoni still isn’t exactly sure what the triangle offense is
“So now it’s like, what are we going to do? We could see how to go and I didn’t know how to get there and with losing again and you’re trying to prod them and you’re trying to tell ‘em to play harder and all the coach’s speak and communication just like deteriorated,” D’Antoni said.
D’Antoni went a disappointing 121-167 as Knicks coach, leaving in 2012 about a year after the team acquired Anthony.
The ‘space and pace’ enthusiast, who just won co-Coach of the Year with Erik Spoelstra from the National Basketball Coaches Association, was against acquiring Anthony from the Nuggets but was overruled by James Dolan.
In his final season, Linsanity emerged and the style of play was briefly more in line with D’Antoni’s philosophies.
Anthony, who was injured for the birth of Linsanity, did not want to change for Lin’s sake.
Eventually D’Antoni and Lin left, and the Knicks won 54 games with Anthony starring the following season.
“(Carmelo and I) don’t have a bad relationship. I speak to him. He’s a good guy,” D’Antoni, who coached Anthony as an assistant with Team USA, said last year on The Vertical podcast. “But I had one vision that I wanted him to play one way. He wanted to go the other way. I couldn’t get to my way.”
But D’Antoni and Carmelo do have something in common these days: disinterest in Phil Jackson’s triangle.
“If the triangle hit me upside the head, I wouldn’t know what it was anyway,” D’Antoni said before playing the Knicks last season.
D’Antoni fumbled with the Lakers after leaving the Knicks, but found a perfect fit for his system in Houston — where he and James Harden earned the third seed in the Western Conference.
Last week. He's the real reason Chris is gone.
Chris Paul not that raw
cant yall buy him out...just shows if you are white and call ball in the nba you can get away with a lot. dude was ok at best, stole from dallas and even was like best friends with cuban almost to where people in the organization where uncomfortable with it. now he's stolen from memphis.
Man they signed dude for like 92 million last year... How do you even buy that out.
overated he did not do much with that clippers team minus the fact that chris and blake where always getting hurt. I love Doc though hes a good motivator but as a coach i think hes overated. I will welcome him back in boston in a heartbeat even though he bounced on us.
Faghet!
Wasn't Chris about to opt-out anyway?
Awwww
Your little point gawd is now on his third team
More jerseys than a WNBA bitch
U mad faggit?
To get the super max.....west deaded that. Only offered 4yrs.
Why in the hell wouldn't he go to the Spurs? 
it was the perfect place for him.
it was the perfect place for him.
Chris Paul going to a team he lost a 3-1 team too.. and please don't say cause he was traded when it's clear he already told Clipper management that's exactly where he wants to go..
Let's hear the excuses..
@largebillsonlyplease come in and get in on this and get at these niggas talkin shit all year
Let's hear the excuses..
@largebillsonlyplease come in and get in on this and get at these niggas talkin shit all year
Cacs been with the nepotism since forever.. Glad doc too care of his kid..
Why in the hell wouldn't he go to the Spurs?
Spurs weren't serious about it. They didn't have the cap space and IMO they didn't try hard enough to clear the space.
This aint on CP3. This on Doc and sub zero.
Warriors stans gonna say every transaction is just like what KD did.Chris Paul going to a team he lost a 3-1 team too.. and please don't say cause he was traded when it's clear he already told Clipper management that's exactly where he wants to go..
Let's hear the excuses..
@largebillsonlyplease come in and get in on this and get at these niggas talkin shit all year
CP3 did yall a solid out the door tho. He could have left via free agency. Instead he opted in and allowed yall to get assets back.
This aint on CP3. This on Doc and sub zero.
Warriors stans gonna say every transaction is just like what KD did.
CP3 did yall a solid out the door tho. He could have left via free agency. Instead he opted in and allowed yall to get assets back.
So Chris ain't tell management he was going to the rockets?
Shit I wouldn't eitherSo Chris ain't tell management he was going to the rockets?
Warriors stans gonna say every transaction is just like what KD did.
Whats the difference in the two, outside of the fact he opted out and was traded. He already expressed interest in the Rockets...
I want to know that too.....I never heard he was there but this week they been talking about he's running shit.....crazy how I missed that news story. But then again I never hear about him or where he's at except when he was with the Lakers.
I don't think they knew this shit would happen this fast.......but at the same time....i'm not sure if the Spurs wanted him at that salary.....they may try their shot with Kyle Lowry.
I don't know why Parsons would agree to it.......he's about to EAT and EAT Good. Fuck a buyout....Memphis got their resources locked up in Conley and Parsons.....that's 250 million for 2 guys.
They have zero reason to hang on to Parker and Manu. They should just force them dudes into retirement. It's crazy how the Spurs continue to let stars slip past them when it comes to trades and free agency. LA needs a dynamic guard and Leonard doesn't need to be their playmaker all the time. They ain't getting to the WC finals without a point guard of high caliber.
I didn't think about that, but Lowery is super smedium.
So Chris ain't tell management he was going to the rockets?
No difference. Its the exact same thing. Yall right.Whats the difference in the two, outside of the fact he opted out and was traded. He already expressed interest in the Rockets...
Like I said I think that it was just something the media put out there and then everyone thought about it and said yea and then it just wasn't going to be
Bags sick as fuck right now!!!
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