Just In: LeBron Reportedly Tried To Get Carmelo Anthony

LeBron James will play his second year with the Los Angeles Lakers. The team is building a roster around their star player. Anthony Davis is on the team, too. This year’s roster is much stronger than the one in 2018-19. So, the team was linked to many players, and Carmelo Anthony is one of them.

Houston released Anthony last season, and he is still unsigned. Many said that LeBron could easily bring Carmelo on the roster.

Kendrick Perkins confirmed that LeBron had tried to get his friend on his teams, but front offices had been giving him a big no. The Lakers may have done the same thing.

“How do you know Bron haven’t went to the Lakers and told them to sign Melo? I’ve witnessed GMs Tell Bron no several times! Bron tried to get Melo in Cleveland and the Cavs told him no!” Perkins tweeted.

Anthony is making headlines after former college basketball star Royce White went off on the topic.

“All of us here that played the game at the highest level know how good Melo is, and we know that there’s no way that the Lakers would go out and sign Jared Dudley and not sign Carmelo Anthony,” White, a Big3 player, told Fanatics View. “And another question is, while a guy like LeBron is walking around here like he’s the face and voice of the players, how is he letting his banana-boat brother hang out there in the wings? And they go sign Jared Dudley and not Carmelo? If anybody watching this thinks that Jared Dudley can hold Carmelo’s jockstrap, I’ll slap him.”

In one of his recent interviews, Anthony talked about his career and his last season.

“I’ve thought about this being my last year, but that was at the time I was really emotionally vulnerable at that point in time. Now I feel like I still could play, I know I still could play, my peers know I still could play.

“I don’t think it’s about basketball anymore. I think it’s about me as a person willing to accept certain roles on a basketball team. Am I willing to accept a certain role on a basketball team? Yes. I’d gotten to a point in Houston where I had to accept that role, and I was just getting into accepting that role.”