Report: Hawks add Anthony, to waive him
♦ Dennis Schroder will reportedly go to the Thunder, while Mike Muscala will go to the 76ers.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Carmelo Anthony is done in Oklahoma City.
A person with knowledge of the details said the Thunder are sending the veteran NBA forward and a
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The person spoke Thursday on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the situation publicly.
ESPN, which first reported the trade, said the Thunder will send Muscala to the Philadelphia 76ers for Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, and Philadelphia’s Justin Anderson will be sent to Atlanta.
Schroder, a speedy 6-foot-1 guard, averaged a career-high 19.4 points last season for the Hawks in 67 games, all starts.
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In an apparent sign of his unhappiness, Jones skipped organized team workouts at the team’s training facility this summer, as well as a mandatory minicamp. But he apparently took part in Ryan’s private passing camp in California along with about a dozen of his teammates this month.
Jones has gone silent on social media and hasn’t talked with the Atlanta
media in months. In one of his rare media appearances, he told TMZ that he has a good relationship with the franchise that pulled off a huge trade with CleveODQG WR PDNH KLP D ¿UVW round pick in 2011.
“Everyone wants a story right now. There’s no story to be told,” Jones insisted. “I’m just working on getting myself better. I’m just working on myself right now. That’s all that is. There’s no bad blood between me and the team or anything like that.”
Jones remains in the good graces of coach Dan Quinn, who didn’t seem at all upset when Jones skipped the minicamp.
“Sometimes football and business intersect,” Quinn said. “That’s OK and that
happens a lot.”
Quinn has talked constantly of “brotherhood” and making sure players do everything as a team. For instance, the players stood together as a team on the sideline during the national anthem for all games after two players kneeled in protest early in the 2017 season.
Quinn doesn’t think Jones’ absence has affected the Falcons’ unity.
“Do we want everybody here all the time? Hell yeah, like all the time,” the coach said. “What I’d say is if you ask to a man, the guy is a hell of a teammate, and the time he spends here, the way he mentors people, how hard he plays, there is plenty of brotherhood in Julio.”