Carmelo Anthony joined the Knicks in February 2011 by essentially forcing the Denver Nuggets to trade him.

Anthony was an impending free agent and wanted to join the Knicks, who had just signed star power forward Amar'e Stoudemire months earlier. Anthony had money at stake by being traded as opposed to becoming a free agent and was threatening to accept a trade elsewhere if the Knicks did not make an offer. The Knicks, Nuggets, Wolves eventually agreed to a massive trade, thus ending the "Melo-drama."