As the new NBA 2017-2018 season approaches, the offseason's mysteries are being solved one by one.

On Saturday, NBA basketball team the Oklahoma City Thunder delivered Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott and a second-round draft pick for 2018 to the New York Knicks in exchange for 10-time All-Star player Carmelo Anthony, said ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

Melo waived 8 million US dollars of trade kicker to go to OKC. He still has two years of contract remaining, which are worth over 52 million dollars. 

The deal was a surprise to most people. However, since April, when the Knicks finished their season, rumors of Melo's desire to leave New York abounded.

At the beginning, Melo was only willing to play for the Houston Rockets and the Cleveland Cavaliers. However, neither team could offer satisfying leverage to New York, who wanted only a valuable first-round draft pick and promising young talents. On Friday, with a strong determination to leave before training camp, Melo added another team to his options: Oklahoma City, who in one day completed the deal.

Joining reigning MVP Russell Westbrook and Paul George, Melo has brought a new "Big Three" to OKC, which may become the biggest challenger to the Golden State Warriors in the coming season.

On Saturday, defending NBA champion Golden State officially announced that they will not visit the White House for the meeting with US President Donald Trump, reported Tencent Sports. Championship teams in US pro and college sports are regularly invited to the White House to be honored by the president. 

"While we intended to meet as a team at the first opportunity we had this morning to collaboratively discuss a potential visit to the White House, we accept that President Trump has made it clear that we are not invited. We believe there is nothing more American than our citizens having the right to express themselves freely on matters important to them. We’re disappointed that we did not have an opportunity during this process to share our views or have open dialogue on issues impacting our communities that we felt would be important to raise," said the Warriors in an announcement on Saturday.

Earlier on Saturday, Donald Trump tweeted "Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!" in response to Stephen Curry, who told the media that he did not want to visit the White House. Curry also said that he did not support the president, his behaviors or his speeches.

Trump was unpopular among many NBA players. LeBron James tweeted in response to the president's "invitation withdrawn" message by saying that visiting the White House used to be an honor until Trump moved in.

Kobe Bryant also expressed his attitude by saying that a president who creates so many divisions and anger with his name can never "Make America Great Again."

Robin Lopez from the Chicago Bulls in his tweet told the Warriors that it's "OK" because in a few months Trump himself may not be able to visit the White House either.

Chris Paul, president of the National Basketball Players Association, also sent an angry message to Trump: "With so many things now happening in our country, you only focus on who is kneeling and visiting the White House?"

Bradley Beal from the Washington Wizards tweeted, "How you gonna withdraw an invite that somebody already said they weren't attending?"

Ironically, Muriel Elizabeth Bowser, mayor of Washington, DC invited the Golden State Warriors to visit her city. She said the Warriors are welcomed to the capital and if anyone stops them, they can tell the stopper it's the mayor who invited them.

The Golden State Warriors will become the first NBA championship to refuse a visit to the White House since 1985.