Carmelo Anthony Wishes He'd Signed With Derrick Rose & 'Perfect Fit' Chicago Bulls: Could The New York Knicks Superstar Force His Way Out Of The Big Apple?

Does Carmelo Anthony regret signing with the Knicks and want out of New York? A documentary titled Carmelo: Made In New York last night revealed just how close the superstar came to leaving New York and join Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls. With Carmelo calling Chicago a "perfect fit", and with the Knicks struggling so much, it sounds like he's regretting his decision to stay in NYC.

After a debacle of a 98-93 loss to borough rivals the Brooklyn Nets last night — including Carmelo taking a three point attempt as time expired while ignoring coach Derek Fisher's call for a time out — the documentary airing on the MSG Network after the Nets loss, Carmelo revealed juts how close he came to signing with the Bulls as a free agent during the offseason.

As ESPN reports, the documentary featured an indecisive Carmelo revealing that his decision "came down to Chicago and New York" and added that Chicago was "perfect. It was a perfect setup, perfect fit for me in Chicago."

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He added in the doc that — despite a "great meeting" with the Bulls including Rose and Joakim Noah — at the last moment he changed his mind because he didn't want to "take everything that I created in New York and move all of that."

It was a similar reason to why he didn't want to go to the starry LA Lakers to join Kobe Bryant, saying that going to LA to join a team bereft of talent other than he and Kobe would've meant "I'd have to really want to get out of New York and come to almost the same situation."

The Chicago decision could definitely be haunting Carmelo now, with his Knicks sitting near the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings at 5-12, while Chicago sit at the opposite end of the spectrum, residing at the top of their division at 11-7.

It could be a lack of team effort that is weighing on Carmelo's mind as he echoed teammate Amar'e Stoudemire's questioning of the Knicks desire to win, telling the New York Post's Marc Berman after Sunday's loss to the Miami Heat, "Sometimes we go out there and it's like we don't want to be out there. We're not giving effort like we're supposed to."

Could Carmelo force his way of New York in the same way he left Denver in 2011? With a no-trade clause in his contract, he's in control of his own destiny, but if the Knicks continue to be this terrible, could he be on his way out of town?

It's certianly got people wondering if Carmelo stayed in New York for the right reasons:

Carmelo Anthony just wanted the Money

— Jacob May (@JacobMayy) December 3, 2014