Carmelo Anthony is officially a Houston Rocket

Carmelo Anthony.
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Carmelo Anthony officially signed with the Houston Rockets on Monday, in an unsurprising end to weeks of team-shuffling for the 10-time All-Star. Anthony ended last season as a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder, but his one-year stint there came to an end last month after he was traded to the Atlanta Hawks. The Hawks waived his rights and allowed him to become a free agent.

Anthony joins his close friend Chris Paul as well as league MVP James Harden in Texas:

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.