Carmelo Anthony Rumors

Pau Gasol: “I think winning a championship... there are so many factors that have to come together. And there are a lot of all-time greats that haven’t won a championship. I don’t think that should define you. It’s about everything you’ve given, how you’ve performed, and what you’ve contributed to the game. Melo is one of those players who has done so much—not just on the basketball court, but off it as well. I think he’s left a really good legacy as a basketball player. His involvement post-career with the game... to me, his commitment to USA Basketball is something I really value. The way he performed, and how he came through in all those championship runs for his team and his country—that, to me, is just as important, or maybe even more important, than winning an NBA title.

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While he didn’t fly up the court like a Dominique Wilkins, Melo became the 10th leading regular-season scorer in NBA history in more of a Mark Aguirre-style of physicality. “His IQ to score — and I’m not talking about his IQ for the game, obviously it’s very high — but his IQ to score the basketball,” Felton answered about Anthony’s best scoring attribute. “Just understanding who’s guarding him. Understanding how they’re guarding him. Making adjustments within the game of ‘this guy is guarding me differently tonight’ or ‘this guy is guarding me this way.’ His IQ to score the ball is probably one of the highest I’ve ever seen.”

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What if Carmelo Anthony had never suffered a second stress fracture in his left foot in November of 2019, leading the Portland Trail Blazers to waive him? Without that injury, which ended his NBA career, would Anthony have ever been given a chance to extend his? At the time, Anthony had been out of the league for more than a year after being unceremoniously dropped by the Houston Rockets just 10 games into the 2017-18 season. The Blazers filled Pau Gasol's roster spot with Anthony, who went from unemployed to averaging 15.4 points for Portland that season. "So my injury gave him the opportunity to play again, prove himself," Gasol said. Anthony added 2,738 points to his career total in his final flourish -- two years with Portland and a final season in L.A., teaming up with James after all those years -- a coda that allowed Anthony to crack the top 10 on the NBA's all-time scoring list.

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Where do you rank Melo’s role with USA Basketball in relation to the role that all the other great players and you and your staff played with the program’s success? Boeheim: “He was such a good scorer that if he started or came off the bench, it didn’t matter. He came off the bench and made 10 or 11 threes in one game. He’s a great international player. Kevin Durant and Carmelo are two of the best international players because they are big and they can shoot the 3. Those guys are hard to defend. That’s why they are two of the leading scorers in Olympic basketball history. They could make 3s and get to the basket and do stuff there.

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Fullcourtpass: Austin Rivers on scoring in the NBA "LeBron James doesn’t have half the offensive bag that Kevin [Durant] has…I would say Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, James Harden, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Allen Iverson are the best scorers I’ve ever seen"

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NBC continues to fill out its new NBA roster, officially announcing Saturday the addition of Carmelo Anthony to its studio team. NBC Sports announced during its Kentucky Derby coverage Saturday that former NBA star Carmelo Anthony is joining the network as an NBA studio analyst.

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Anthony, who has not previously held any role in sports broadcasting, is expected to work one or more days per week. He is the first official studio hire announced by NBC and joins an NBA roster that includes the previously announced Mike Tirico, Noah Eagle, Jamal Crawford and Reggie Miller.

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Carmelo Anthony: Filled with gratitude. My journey was different, but finding the balance through all the ups and downs made this moment possible. And if you stay true to who you are then the journey is always worth it. Thank you @Hoophall for recognizing 32 years. 🙏🏾 #STAYME7O

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Ian Begley: Carmelo Anthony selected Hall of Famers Dwyane Wade and Allen Iverson as presenters for his upcoming induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Dwight Howard selected Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing to be among the group of people presenting him, the HOF announced

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Carmelo Anthony on team bonding at strip clubs: I'm glad that you (Rudy Gay) able to tell this story about Magic City in a sense, but we utilize those moments to go to places like that. And it was very respectful though. It was it was times where we would go and be like, "Yo, we don't want no girls." Like there's no girls around us. Like we coming to here, we chilling. We bonding. We got to get our mind right. We going to come and eat. We going to have a good team outing. No girls. Leave it alone. Rudy Gay: You might lose two or three games in a row, then you say ‘all right, we going to Magic City’. We all going to get together and no girls. We just going to laugh, chill, have a drink, eat, whatever. Carmelo Anthony: Everybody thinks that you are going there to get lap dances. You going there for the bullsh*t… No, you're not going there for the bullsh*t. You really going there to clear your mind. You go there to just relax and clear your mind. You might have a drink, might have some food. Most strip clubs got the best food, especially the wings.

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Fullcourtpress: Michael Beasley calls out Carmelo Anthony 👀 “He copped the *uck out and said I wanna, I wanna, I wanna… we can really do it— no cop outs, throw the *ucking money up.”

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Wade, however, wants to remind everyone that he was on the fast track to ascension, perhaps even all the way towards Michael Jordan’s status, before his faulty knees cut his MVP-level prime short. “They don’t understand my game. They don’t know what I did. I’m not the greatest shooter of all time, but I was great at so many things so nobody knows how to break down my game so they look over it. I did so many things in the game of basketball. When I had it, I had it. Before injuries, I’m like, ‘MJ I’m coming for you,'” Wade said in an appearance on Carmelo Anthony’s 7PM in Brooklyn podcast presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment.

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Nonetheless, Anthony has nothing but respect for what Beasley is doing in the one on one space and commends him for the job he's been doing exploring this side of the sport. “He really wanna play. He love to play and he love the game. And I think now, you start to see him get thar attention and the respect that he deserves,” Anthony said on the latest episode of his podcast, 7PM in Brooklyn presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment. “I think now having the opportunity, get back out there on the court, showcase to a newer generation a newer game when it come to 1v1, he is that guy.” “I would put my own money up on Beas against people … Beas is one of the most talented players to ever play our game.”

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Tracy McGrady when he played his first game with Knicks: We’re playing against Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden. And I'm feeling good about there. I scored 26 in the first half, giving them the work right on one leg. Man, that next game I tried to play with the same adrenaline, it wasn’t there anymore. I was trash. Straight trash. After that game, it was ‘Mac is back’. Carmelo Anthony: Then… New York ain't it. No, sir.

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