Melo comments that he not feeling the love from Denver.. Gee I wonder why.

Carmelo Anthony Says His Former Team Doesn't Want Him to Be Successful with Knicks

By now, it's getting pretty hard to ignore the fact that the New York Knicks haven't seemed to improve all that much ever since they went out and acquired star forward Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets. Melo himself is doing just fine, averaging 25.5 points per game as a a Knick, but the team is just 6-5 in 11 games since the trade.

Meanwhile, things are just peachy in Denver. The Nuggets are 8-2 since shipping Melo to the Knicks, and they are making a push in the Western Conference playoff race as a result. In addition, head coach George Karl hasn't been afraid to tell like it like it is on occasion, and it's pretty obvious at this point that he doesn't really miss his former star.

In speaking with the New York Daily News earlier on Tuesday, Melo opened up about the general sense of jubilation in his old team. Not surprisingly, he's of the opinion that the Nuggets want him to fail in New York.

"I really think they kind of don't want me to have success in New York, that's the way I look at it," he said. "I try not to think about that. I've been in Denver 7 ½ years. For me to move on was a hard thing to do. This is a business and I've cut my ties there."

From merely reading the text, it's difficult to tell whether or not Anthony is surprised by this. But in all honesty, he shouldn't be. It was obvious from the very start of the season that he didn't want to play in Denver anymore, and he didn't exactly force the organization's hand with any sense of subtlety. So why would the Nuggets organization wish him well?

Obviously, this isn't quite the same as Cleveland rooting against LeBron James after he took his talents to South Beach. The feeling in Denver isn't nearly as bitter. Instead, both the organization and its fans are mocking the very idea that they needed Melo in the first place. This wouldn't be the case if the Nuggets were 2-8 without him instead of 8-2, but one supposes that, on occasion, you have to make a good situation even better.

As for the Knicks, we may as well be honest about their chances this year. They may have themselves a dynamic duo in Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire, but they're not going to be good enough to dispatch any of the top teams in the Eastern Conference. Make no mistake, they are not a so-called 'super team' quite yet.