Carmelo Anthony: Late All-Star Selection "Was A Downer," No Refunds On His Canceled Vacation

Carmelo Anthony found out on Wednesday that he was a last-minute All-Star selection, chosen to fill in for an injured Kevin Love and make his tenth appearance at the game. Good news?

“It was a downer,” Anthony told reporters. “I had to cancel my trip. No refunds.”

He had planned on “evaluating” his situation with the Knicks over a weekend trip to Cuba and Puerto Rico, according to the . Now, he’ll have to do that evaluation as the team’s lone representative for Sunday’s game in New Orleans instead—scrolling through the vacation pictures of non-All-Star players, which makes him “jealous” to the point of already telling reporters, “I had to shut my phone off.”

Anthony assured the media that he was joking—“It’s a good thing, I don’t want to seem like I’m not happy about it”—but the Knicks have certainly not given him any  reason to joke about needing a good vacation this winter.