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Carmelo Anthony doesn't want to leave the New York Knicks. Not so much because he thinks the team is awesome—it's not, and he's smart enough to understand that—but rather because his family is happy in the Big Apple.

"That's more what I care about, my family," Anthony told Newsday's Al Iannazzone. "My son being comfortable in New York at an age now where he's really getting an opportunity to understand being in New York and having a home there and having friends there. My wife working there and having her opportunities there. I think about that more so than my decision for my career."

Anthony doesn't have to move if he and his family aren't inclined to do so. The no-trade clause in his contract isn't subject to Phil Jackson's incessant needling.

Not that those circumstances have stopped the Zen Master from shopping his most established star. According to ESPN's Marc Stein and Ramona Shelburne, the Knicks have dangled Anthony in front of the Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers, though there's been no significant movement on any of those fronts just yet.

Per the Boston Globe's Gary Washburn, the C's front office isn't keen to acquire Anthony, though that hasn't stopped New York from scouting Boston's roster. Doc Rivers, meanwhile, refuses to respond to rumors that he had discussed sending his son (Austin Rivers), Jamal Crawford and Wesley Johnson to New York to bring Anthony back to L.A.

"I'm not going to answer that stuff," he told Bleacher Report. "All of it's hearsay. None of it's coming from us. So why should I answer it is the way I look at it."

As for the Cavs, they're interested in Anthony but not at the expense of sending Kevin Love to Madison Square Garden, per ESPN.com's Stein and Chris Haynes.

Each team would benefit from adding such an experienced scorer to their respective rosters. Boston could use another option come playoff time when defenses will devise ways to bottle up Isaiah Thomas during a seven-game series. Anthony could lighten the loads shouldered by LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Love while helping Cleveland further consolidate power atop the Eastern Conference.

L.A. would be better able to compete with the Golden State Warriors, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets out West with a legitimate starting small forward in place of the improved (but still largely harmless) Luc Mbah a Moute. And in the Clippers' case, bringing on Anthony, a close friend of Chris Paul, would presumably help them retain their superstar point guard when he opts out of his contract this summer.