Want more basketball in your inbox? Crawford typically heads to the gym twice daily in Seattle to keep himself sharp while waiting for the kind of call Anthony just got from the Trail Blazers. But some games in mid-November are must-watch โ and Blazers at Pelicans suddenly qualifies as worthy of schedule shuffling. Like Anthony, Crawford has no shortage of supporters openly wondering when he will be summoned back to the N.
No less a legend than Bill Russell tweeted in support of Crawford on Nov. It was one of the most remarkable regular-season finales in league history.
In Game 82 for the Suns, Crawford scored 51 points on 30 shots in 38 minutes 8 seconds โ off the bench. From a selfish perspective, it was the sort of one-of-a-kind occasion that helped me make up for some internal conflict that still lingers from the final day of the season. I was in Oakland, Calif. The stark difference from that wild and unforgettable occasion, of course, is that everyone knew Bryant was retiring before he walked onto the Staples Center floor and proceeded to riddle the Utah Jazz for sixty.
Crawford does not want to retire. Insistent on positivity even though this is the first November since his lone collegiate season at Michigan in in which he did not hold an N. The past week, though, has been a source of encouragement. I just had the highest scoring month in my whole career after not really playing that much all year. The Suns went in April in the four games Crawford played, with the three-time winner of the N. Crawford understands that he is not guaranteed a Melo moment.
He knows โ as Anthony surely grasps better than any vet looking for work โ that prospective teams are generally more inclined to focus on the things that free agents in their twilight years can no longer do rather than what they still can. Yet Crawford refused to believe that Melo was out of options after his Houston flameout.
