LaLa was always the problem...she hangs out with the Kardashians...is there any association with them that doesn't involve some negative after effect? (See-James Harden w/ Kardashian effect). It was widely known she was a big part to him being anchored in NYC. For odd reasons, he clearly had no idea how to stand up for himself in terms of basketball decisions. He was always about NYC, no matter what. Not winning, not competing, not building the Knicks, but being in NYC, scoring 20 ppg, and collecting max money. The end. Carmelo Anthony is a very simple man, very very simple.
Melo doesn't care about basketball. He just cares about living in a major market and getting endorsement deals and doing whatever his wife tells him to do. He's worse than Tmac. For any Rockets fans advocating that we try to acquire this worthless piece of ****, may god have mercy on your souls.
Cheetah NOOOOOOOOOO!!! Spoiler I was pretty intoxicated when I made that post I think, don't remember it.
If Carmelo didn't care about basketball he wouldn't have spent more time than any other US player representing his country in international play. Honors: Selected 2016 USA Basketball Co-Male Athlete of the Year; 2006 USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year; named to the five-man 2006 FIBA World Championship All-Tournament Team. Gold Medals: 2016 Olympic Games, 2012 Olympic Games, 2008 Olympic Games, 2007 FIBA Americas Championship. Silver Medal: 2001 USA Basketball Youth Development Festival. Bronze Medals: 2006 FIBA World Championship, 2004 Olympic Games. Became USA Basketball’s first four-time men’s Olympian, the first four-time men’s medalist and the first men’s player to win three Olympic gold medals. Has played on 14 USA Basketball teams, appeared in 85 games and compiled 1265 points (14.9 ppg.), 365 (4.3 rpg.) rebounds and 116 (1.4 apg.) assists. In the U.S. Olympic men’s career record book, ranks first in games played (31), points (336), field goals made (113), field goals attempted (262), rebounds (125), 3-point field goals attempted (139), free throws made (53) and free throws attempted (71); and second in 3-point field goals made (57). Member of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team, started in all eight games and averaged a team second-best 12.1 points to go with 5.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 23.3 minutes per game to help the USA to an 8-0 record and a third-straight Olympic gold medal from Aug. 6-21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Shot 39.3 percent from the field (33-84 FGs), 40.0 percent from 3-point (18-45 3pt FGs) and 61.9 percent from the line (13-21 FTs). Tracy Mcgrady: Zero Olympic appearances -- was on 2003 FIBA Americas team, but had a back injury. Tracy McGrady will not play for the U.S. basketball team at the Olympics, U.S. Coach Larry Brown said Wednesday. "Tracy dropped out," Brown said.
He cares about the Olympic teams and winning gold medals, he doesn't care about winning anything in the NBA. He's an overpaid ball stopper, much like Tmac was hence why I brought his name up. Melo has had chances to go play for winning teams and each time he's chosen to go back and play for one of the biggest clown show organizations in pro sports that are the NY Knicks. If we wanted to win he would be playing for a winning team right now. The Clippers, the Bulls, hell even the Rockets paraded him around Toyota Center through hallways with a bunch of "winning recipe" garbage with his face plastered all over the place. You get the sense that he just doesn't care about any of that, you see it in his play, the way he acts, like it's all just a huge joke to him. Melo basically treats his career in the NBA the way a retail worker does when they punch into a time clock every day, no lunch pale type DNA in this guy at all. Same way Tmac was. It's good that he takes his role in representing our country seriously. I have respect for him for that, more so than Tmac. But, as an NBA player Melo has been one of the most disappointing stars I've seen in years, and in any of the four major sports. He belongs on reality tv with his wife, not in the NBA.
What is wrong with going to one of the biggest sports franchises in the world (that happens to be your hometown team) and trying to be a part of rebuilding it? Shaq went to the Lakers during their lean mid-90s years and turned them into a dynasty -- Lebron turned the clown show known as the Cavs into world champions. Being a part of bringing glory back to a faded or perennial losing franchise makes winning it all that much better -- there are many examples none better than Hakeem and Clyde. Durant leaving OKC for Golden State is the pinnacle of shooting for an easy championship. If Anthony had joined a super team people would have endlessly criticized him for not paying his dues and earning his way to the finals. It didn't work out for Carmelo in New York, but at least he can say he tried to do something special for the team he grew up with. Now his loyalty to New York has become a point to deride him -- the contempt for Melo is unreal. A different president and coach would have made a huge difference for New York -- their inept play rests squarely with the front office and owner. Anthony's personality causes a great deal undeserved derisiveness, but he is easy to defend when you step back and look at the facts.
Nobody outside of New York would look down on Melo for leaving the Knicks, they're garbage. It's not the same situation as Durant and even Shaq who both left good teams that were competing for championships.
But he still loves those summer pickup games — Hoodie Melo!! He’s probably worried the kids will stop inviting him to play, if he retires.
WOW> how did you know Blake, CP3, and DJ wouldn't be there a season later??? And Melo would be out of the NBA a season later? Who would have thought last year that Melo's career is over
Have people finally come around to the fact that Melo is done? A whole narrative was built around how he was sucking because of Westbrook...just like how Durant was choking because of Westbrook.
Only in China. Meloball is the anti-thesis of Euroball. When uptight Euroball fans complain about how the NBA is ruining basketball, they usually have in mind a caricature of the iso-heavy days of the NBA in the late 1990s which is literally Meloball.
