Kiyan Anthony on his dad's retirement (h/t
@overtime
)
"People think retirement is 60-year old's retiring just to sit down in their bed all day. Even when he's on the court, he still would fry anybody that's in the NBA."
Steve Smith on Carmelo Anthony's legacy (h/t
@NBATV
)
“When we look back 20 years from now, we’ll say, ‘We didn’t appreciate Carmelo Anthony enough.’”
#MeloMondays
Kenyon Martin on Carmelo Anthony's defense (h/t
@GilsArenaShow
)
"I beg to differ with people that say Melo can't defend...I've seen him come out of the timeout and be like, 'I got Bean'...come out 'I got Bron.'
When it comes down to it, playoffs and all of that, that boy showed
Paul George said guys used to get ‘Melo-itis’ on his
@PodcastPShow
:
“Danny (Granger) was supposed to play. We get a call that Danny slips in his bathtub, sprains his ankle and so he’s out for the game…
And that was the story - guys would say ‘Oh, you got Melo-itis’ today,
Carmelo Anthony once summed up NY perfectly (h/t
@VICESports
)
“New York is the greatest city on the planet but you not a New Yorker if you don’t wake up some days and be like, ‘Man, fuck this place’”
#NationalNewYorkDay
How’d Carmelo Anthony’s first home game as a Blazer go?
- 29 MINs
- 19 PTS on 9/11 shooting
- 4 REBs
- 2 ASTs
- +27
- Exits game with team up 32 and crowd chanting his name
But they told us he was done🤔🤔🤔
#STAYME700
BREAKING: Carmelo Anthony retires from the NBA after 19 seasons
10x All-Star
Top 9 scorer in NBA history
2013 Scoring Champion
6x All-NBA
NBA 75th Anniversary Team
First Ballot Hall of Famer WITHOUT A DOUBT
#STAYME7O
🚨Carmelo Anthony turns 40 today🚨
So we're throwing it back to his first 40-point game 20 years ago when he locked up a playoff spot all as a ROOKIE (h/t
@DawkinsMTA
)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
@carmeloanthony
🥳
Carmelo Anthony scored 28,289 points and made 10,119 shots over the course of his 19-year Hall of Fame career
We went back and found the first field goal he made with each of the six teams he played for🧵👇
Jeremy Lin:
- Good 2 months of play in 2012
- Bench player
- Champion
- Cries about situation
- “I feel bad for Lin”
Carmelo Anthony:
- Great 15 years of play from 03-17
- 1st ballot Hall of Famer
- Prime wasted by Phil Jackson
- Doesn’t cry about situation
- “Melo’s trash LOL”
Phoenix Suns players are publicly speaking out about Carmelo Anthony...
Chris Paul: "Melo is one of the best to ever to play the game...he should be able to walk off the court when he’s ready.” (h/t
@SBondyNYDN
)
Kevin Durant: "I think he has the talent to play in our league"
Captain clutch, Carmelo Anthony, hit 20 game-winning shots in his career
Since 1996-1997, that’s the most out of anybody in the NBA (Kobe had 19)
#MeloForever
Earl Watson on Carmelo Anthony:
“He immediately got his team into the playoffs, he won a national championship at Syracuse, so you can’t tell me Melo’s not a winner”
Paul Pierce told
@IAMATHLETEpod
that he'd rather guard LeBron, Kobe or T-Mac than Carmelo Anthony:
"He used to hurt my chest. He's a bulldog. He's gonna be physical. He's gonna post you up. He's gonna hit you with a shoulder in the chest.
You're gonna be hurting after the game.
Rip Hamilton on Detroit not drafting Melo in 2003
"Melo was a once-in-a-generational type talent...if Carmelo comes to us, would the narrative have been different with LeBron James?...I think the narrative would've been totally different on (Melo's) career" (h/t
@shobasketball
)
On this day 10 years ago, Carmelo Anthony started an INSANE run to clinch the 2 seed for the Knicks while securing his 1st scoring title:
21 PTS, 8 REBs, 50% FG, W
37 PTS, 6 REBs, 2 BLKs, 45% FG, W
28 PTS, 8 REBs, 47% FG, W
29 PTS, 8 REBs, 3 STLs, W
22 PTS, 7 REBs, 3 ASTs, W
32
This dude Carmelo Anthony was really out there putting up:
- 42 PTS
- 14/30 FGs
- 4/8 3Ps
- 17 REBs
- 6 ASTs
-2 BLKs
in Boston against their Big 3 WITHOUT Billups/Amare and still put the Knicks in position to get the W before Jared Jeffries fumbled the ball lol
NBA Summer League MVP and Rockets’ Rookie Cam Whitmore on why he chose # 7:
“I picked seven because that’s somebody I admire by the name of Carmelo Anthony”
By averaging at least 20 PPG in his first 14 seasons, Carmelo Anthony joined Kareem, Shaq and Jordan as the fourth player in NBA history to accomplish the feat
2004: 21.0 PPG, 6.1 REBs, 2.8 ASTs
2005: 20.8 PPG, 5.7 REBs, 2.6 ASTs
2006: 26.5 PPG, 4.9 REBs, 2.7 ASTs
2007: 28.9
Jordan Brand honors Carmelo Anthony’s retirement with a billboard of his Knicks’ # 7 hanging…just a block away from Madison Square Garden
#Retire7
and
#Retire15
Dwyane Wade on Melo not winning the 2004 Rookie of the Year (h/t
@ClubShayShay
)
"He had an argument then, and he has an argument now...they didn't wanna give it to him. He was in Denver, he was wearing the durags, they didn't wanna mess with Melo at that time."
#MeloForever
Jamal Crawford gives Melo his flowers on Instagram:
"Your game is one of the best we’ve ever seen. A bull in the China shop, then would shoot one of the prettiest jumpers we’ve ever seen.
When you ask people the hardest player they’ve ever had to guard, your name consistently
Iman Shumpert on Melo doing three to the head in honor of Rasheed Wallace (h/t
@shobasketball
)
"(Rasheed) knew he wasn't healthy enough to play so Melo took it for him like, 'Yeah, we on that'...that's his now, but Melo was really doing it to honor big fella"
"People elevate Melo into conversations he has no business being in"
—
@Nerd_Sesh
explains why Carmelo Anthony is the most overrated basketball player ever
Patrick Mahome’s favorite basketball player growing up? Carmelo Anthony (h/t
@NFLonNBC
)
“I was a Carmelo Anthony fan, I was going the other way. Everybody was a LeBron fan so I loved LeBron but at the same time I wanted to have that guy.”
No NBA player in 2012-2013 averaged more points than Carmelo Anthony
Here's 7 minutes, 44 seconds of him from that season abusing defenders off the dribble
#MeloForever
Melo's 13-game stretch with the division on the line in April 2013 was INSANE
37, 6, W
28, 8, W
29, 8, 3, W
22, 7, 3, W
32, 11, W
24, 10, 3, W
50, W
40, 5, 3, W
41, 14, W
36, 12, W
36, 8, 6, W
36, 19
31, 14, W
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN
26 POINTS ON 10/17 SHOOTING, 8 REBOUNDS, 2 ASSISTS AND 2 STEALS IN A GAME THAT MOVED PORTLAND INTO THE 8TH SPOT
SEND IT TO SOMEONE WHO SAID MELO WAS WASHED