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Do you ever think about how your career might have differed if you had stayed in New York and the Carmelo Anthony trade never happened? Danilo Gallinari: No, I sometimes talk about it. I think about it just with friends and family when we sometimes talk about basketball and my career. We think about it, or when I come back to New York and I talk to my fans or people in New York that still work for the Knicks, we talk about it, but there is a lot of, unfortunately, because of my injuries, there is a lot of what-if in my career. I don't know, I'm probably the biggest what-if guy in the history of the game, maybe. But it's part of an NBA career. It happened to me, unfortunately, more than any other athlete probably, as far as injuries, but I don't think about it too much.
Carmelo Anthony has said to me that Paul George—and it’s not just him, it’s other players that have said it—Paul George is like the archetype of today’s player. And I feel like that gets lost in translation, because I hear people say he’s a taller Kyrie in some respects. What’s your relationship like with him, and how do you think that’ll help in Boston? Ron Harper Jr.: Oh man, I’m very excited to play with PG, learn from him. I haven’t had the chance to like to talk to him in person yet, but we’ve talked and, you know, I’m just really excited to have a vet that’s, you know, been through what he’s been through. Like you said, people say he’s a taller Kyrie. Paul George was Dylan’s favorite player when he was younger. Like we literally have 10, maybe 20 Paul George jerseys just sitting around at the house, all in Dylan’s size when he was a kid. So it’s just a really cool, full-circle moment by how he came to Boston. You know, I got off of 13, let him have his number back, cause I know that’s his number. So hopefully we start our relationship off on the right foot, but I’m just really looking forward to learning a lot from him.
Carmelo Anthony on Tyler Herro and Bam Adebayo altercation: "We was just in a bunker for eight years... We done went to war for eight seasons... The minute that you leave, you put that out there... So that told me that was brewing and what we were building wasn't real… so if you went out there to told somebody you don't even know this information, that told me that I got to approach you the way that I feel like is the best way because if you don't stop it right away, it keeps going."
Carmelo Anthony: "I would love to see him and Steph just go. They've been wanting to do it for a while. They've been on the Olympic team. Just go out there, you guys ride this shit out, finish it together. I don't know if Steph, this is it for Steph. I'm just saying like you guys are now at that point where you can actually go and try to develop something throughout the course of the year to win a championship."
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Carmelo Anthony: "The man is 42 years old. So when you talk about what's being taken into consideration, fuck the money, fuck the ring, it's happiness. I got to be at peace with this decision at this point in my life. My kids, my family, this is what it really comes down to. Fuck the basketball shit. And then when he starts thinking basketball, then it's like, okay, now if this is going to be it, where can I go to win a championship? That's it. I'm not trying to go to an organization and help develop nobody. I'm not trying to, I'm going where we all ready to rock, we all respect each other, we all know what's on at the stake, and let's go."
Carmelo Anthony on LeBron James: "If I'm going back to Cleveland, this means I'm giving my all. We already see what he does every season, and we keep being amazed by the shit. He go back to Cleveland and he got a chance to really win the fucking championship, he's going to give everything, 23 years of the 40 years of basketball into one season, and he instantly elevates the Cleveland Cavaliers."
McGrady could have a new home as an analyst next season. He told FOS that his deal with NBC was only for one year and it’s currently unknown if he will return to the network next season. McGrady was part of NBC’s pre and post-game team with Maria Taylor, Vince Carter and Carmelo Anthony, which drew mixed reviews from critics. Before joining NBC, McGrady worked as an analyst for ESPN. NBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “I give ourselves a B+,” McGrady said of the group’s performance. “And we have a lot of room to improve. I only did a one-year deal, so we’ll see how that goes moving forward. But I would love to be back with the camp.”
Josh Hart: "No one knows the understand besides y'all that wear the jersey, no one understands the weight that that jersey has sometimes. And, you know, we kind of talk around it and dance around it, but New York is a special place, but there's a lot of pressure when you put that jersey on. So we want to thank you and celebrate you (Carmelo Anthony) a little bit, man, for laying the foundation, but also, you know, talking to us during it."
Carmelo Anthony: I think De'Aaron Fox as a young veteran, somebody who's been around this game for a while should understand that the pace of the game, understand the momentum of the game, which is why he's there, right? He's there to control the game, make big shots. He's a closer, too. This is what he does. These shots are shots that De'Aaron Fox usually take and make. So, when you have the trust factor is so high in San Antonio that Mitch trusts is De'Aaron Fox to go out there and win him basketball games and be successful in certain moments. Now, it comes a point now where you have to say "What's my end game adjustment right now?" And you have to put Dylan Harper in there a lot faster in that run. Take that away. I’m a Harrison Barnes guy.
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Remember LeBron James' "Decision" back in 2010? That was Rose, James' agent at the time, and Worldwide Wes. Carmelo Anthony's trade from the Denver Nuggets to the Knicks in 2011? Leon and Wes. Dolan had a good relationship with both men during Anthony's seven seasons in New York and admired the loyalty they seemed to have with clients. Dolan is a lot of things. Irascible. Unpredictable. Meddlesome. But he's also loyal. So when he went to replace Jackson in 2019, he kept coming back to the idea of Rose and Wesley -- two men he knew could handle the pressure cooker of New York and identify the type of players who could thrive in that environment, too. But maybe even more importantly, he trusted them to do it and largely allowed them to operate without interference. Those who know Dolan best say he'd simply learned from his past that ownership involvement isn't always productive. Others suggest his focus was split between the Knicks and building the Sphere in Las Vegas.
Carmelo Anthony addressed his “ridiculous” remark, saying that Jeremy Lin deserved for the Knicks to match his offer from Houston instead of letting him walk over luxury tax concerns. “You got to think from my perspective, everything kind of came and went so fast and now I’m not on the Knicks anymore,” Lin said on the “7PM in Brooklyn,” a Wave Original. “And after that, I hear publicly a coach saying something and three teammates saying stuff publicly about like, ‘Oh, Linsanity didn’t vibe with everybody in the locker room.’ And so I’m like, ‘You got to think, Melo, I’m hearing this and I’m trying to piece together the story.’”
Anthony also pushed back on the narrative that he was jealous of Lin during “Linsanity.” “I had to figure my s–t. I was injured. I was hurt,” Anthony said of the “Linsanity” era. “I had to think about how fast I’m going to come back, what I’m going to do, how the f–k I’m going to go help this team, how I got to lead this team. “I’m in a different position than [Jeremy] is. So I got to deal with a whole bunch of s–t. Forget being jealous of what [Jeremy’s] doing. I want him to keep going. Game win in D.C. Yo, keep going. Toronto. Yo, keep going.”
During Friday’s installment of the “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast, Lin — whose rise to fame during the 2011-12 season sparked rumors that Anthony was jealous of his success — explained that the pair had an “honest and direct” conversation and finally reconciled. “Basically I asked every last question I had: ‘did that happen? What happened there? What happened here?’” Lin said. “But it was honest. It was direct, it was honest and we were able to definitely clear the air. Obviously perception is reality in certain situations.
