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Carmelo Anthony: People forget you were part of kind of that just that Bobcats ownership. Nelly: I was there before Michael Jordan. Anthony: Everybody's trying to get into NBA ownership now with teams that's all the teams is valued in the two, three, four, five, six billion dollars is killing it. NBA money. What made you want to get into that NBA early like that? Or just the fact the idea of ownership? Nelly: Well, I mean the fact that it is ownership, I don't think anybody is going to not take a look at that dream, especially again sports, that's like a dream come true. Shout out to Bob Johnson cuz um there was an opportunity to be a part of the first minority-owned NBA franchise with the owner of BET. So it was like, ‘thank you for allowing me to go in’. Well my money was no 300 million. (…) He allowed me to be a part of that, man. And it was dope. And then Mike came in and it even doper, man, cuz he was he was so cool to me. You don't know how that's going to go. Then he came in and bought out everybody else. I was like, "Yo, why you ain't buying me out?’ I’m the little man on the telephone. I'm the one that really could have used it. He was like, "Nah, you funny. I'm keeping you.’ And they think I’m bullshitting when I said that. No, that's a fact. He was like, ‘Nah, you funny. I'm going to keep you.’
Carmelo Anthony on Celtics: "Because I was around that situation, it tells me that this is what it is. It's no more of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. This is separated. This is you went on, I did our thing and two things could be right at the same time. Two things could be wrong at the same time. I think that's what we're dealing with here. Nobody is going to know other than Jayson Tatum on his side and Jaylen Brown on his side and the people who was around that scenario."
MELO: “So he's telling JT to watch your back because all the people that's around you watch that. And I'm not saying your immediate people. I'm saying people that you may think that's in the business, that may have your best interest, that are your support, they really don't and they want this… So, watch out for the people cuz you haven't dealt with that. I dealt with that – meaning JB, he had he dealt with that. But that's something [JT] didn't have to deal with.”
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NBA Courtside: Carmelo Anthony says Jalen Brunson taking a pay cut sets a bad precedent for the rest of the league and the Karl-Anthony Towns contract situation: “He set a precedent where now that precedent is being asked to the next person and it’s two different situations.” That’s definitely can start being a thing where contract negotiations could be brought up how Jalen Brunson took a pay cut to help the team and they won the championship.
Carmelo Anthony: “Jaylen Brown is the best two-way player in the NBA… I think if Wemby wasn't in the league, [JB] could win defensive player of the year.”
Carmelo Anthony on Pablo Torre: “You got to take the stand and tell us which owners. Say the owner of the XYZ teams are asking about LeBron’s transportation. F** all that journalism sh**. Like I respect the journalism, but if we're going to keep it a buck, keep it a buck. Tell us who the owners are. Because if we were saying, if a player was saying something about the owners, that owner would find out who the f*** was saying that sh**, and we would be in a situation where we could be f***ed up… It's investigating too much, but I've said this previously that you got what you got, and I don't want you to stop being a journalist, because you do great journalism and I respect you as a journalist.”
Carmelo Anthony: “I'm going to go with Ant because of the youth. Because I think now he's going to have an opportunity to really showcase another level of his game… To me, the only thing Ant needs to work on is what Mike Malone wanted to get out to the game – the midrange.. So, if you add that part, getting out in transition and slowing your game down and getting to the mid-range, now you're the complete package. You're the complete package offensively.”
Carmelo Anthony: "I think that Chris Paul got to let it go. Meaning, don't even sweat it. Let them sweat on it. Let them decide that. Let them figure that out. Continue doing what you're doing. Yeah, anybody who have an opportunity to have their jersey hung up in the rafter is going to want their jersey in the rafter. I think we make it seem like it's just so easy to get your jersey in the rafter. No, it's not easy to get your jersey in the rafter. It's about what you leave in this organization, the impact, the effect, not just the wins and losses. How you made people feel around here in the organization, the community, the city. It goes deeper than just banners."
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Carmelo Anthony: "If I'm Detroit, I'm paying (Jalen Duren). 22 years old. We just come off a 60 win season, regardless of what happened in the playoffs. I'm 22, I'm going to get better. I have to get better. So if I get better, this team gets better. Let's assume Cade is going to get better. Let's assume Thompson is going to get better. Let's assume Jalen is going to get better. So now you have this core that you are going to have for the next four, five years. I'd rather go compete with that core and build around that than let this man leave."
Carmelo Anthony on LeBron James: "Philly just wasn't the team that I was like at the top of the list, like at first. It was Golden State, that was a conversation. But I think Anthony Davis and that has something to do with Jimmy Butler, all of that has something to do with it. I honestly thought Cleveland. Going back home, they got a solid team, you can compete, but I don't think he felt like he had a chance to win a championship in Cleveland."
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.
