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.