Carmelo Anthony(notes) still hopes to persuade the Denver Nuggets to trade him, preferably to either the Chicago Bulls or New York Knicks, an NBA source with knowledge of Anthony’s wishes told Yahoo! Sports.

The Knicks have limited assets to offer the Nuggets, which makes the Bulls a more appealing potential trade partner. The Bulls can offer a replacement small forward in Luol Deng(notes), as well as two young forwards in James Johnson(notes) and Taj Gibson(notes). New York officials would like to make a run at signing Anthony next summer if he were to opt to become a free agent. The Knicks will have salary-cap room with Eddy Curry’s(notes) contract expiring after the season.

The Chicago Bulls will tip off their 45th season on Wednesday, Oct. 27 in Oklahoma City versus the Thunder. As part of the NBA’s Kia Motors NBA Tip-Off ’10 schedule, the game will be televised nationally on ESPN at 7:00 p.m.

Chicago will tip off its home schedule on Saturday, Oct. 30 versus the Detroit Pistons at the United Center at 7:00 p.m.

Chicago’s home schedule features the NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 10. The Miami Heat will be at the United Center on Jan. 15 and Feb. 24, while the Boston Celtics will be in town on Jan. 8 and April 7.

Chicago’s Christmas day game at New York is one of five matinee games on this year’s schedule. The Bulls and Knicks will tip off at 11:00 a.m. and the game will be televised nationally on ESPN.

The Bulls are currently scheduled to appear on national television a total of 27 times. This year the Bulls will air on ABC two times, TNT seven times, ESPN nine times and NBA-TV nine times. The Chicago Bulls local television schedule will be announced in the very near future.

Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah wants to sign a long-term deal with the team and hopes to have one done before the season begins in October.

Noah said his agent, Donald Dell, has already started discussing the parameters of a deal with Bulls general manager Gar Forman and the 25-year-old is confident the parties can work something out in the near future.

"Of course that's the goal," he told ESPNChicago.com after a charity event for his Noah's Arc Foundation in Queens on Friday night. "I'm not really worried about it. I think everything's going to happen with time and at the end of the day, I'm really excited about the upcoming season."

Knicks are also scheduled to host Bulls on Christmas Day...better yet, on Dec. 17 LeCon comes to the Garden