PhotoMichele Roberts, the executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, has rebuked the Knicks’ president, Phil Jackson, for publicly indicating that he would like Carmelo Anthony to play elsewhere next season. In a statement released late Saturday, Roberts said the union had taken its concerns about Jackson’s “inappropriate comments” to the commissioner’s office. View all New York Times newsletters. Roberts’s remarks came after Jackson seemed to indicate that he hoped Anthony, 32, would waive the no-trade clause in his contract. And while Jackson said Anthony would not fit into the kind of team he aimed to build, he also called Anthony a future Hall of Famer.

Source: New York Times April 16, 2017 23:03 UTC