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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.
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.
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“… And that’s the thing about that whole stretch was there was a lot that I was unsure about. And so the narratives come, but to be able to talk it out, I appreciate that. And so my biggest thing was when I think back on my career, because I recently retired [last August], I’ve never wanted my story to be me versus anybody else, which we had talked about. “And I think at the end of all of this, if my name comes up or my story comes up and it’s me versus [Carmelo] or if we’re ever at a point where someone has to choose sides, then I think we failed.”
Anthony, who publicly invited Lin to be a guest on his “7PM In Brooklyn” podcast to “clear the air” last month, explained that it took him some time before he felt ready to answer Lin’s questions. “These was questions that was built up for 14 years that other people probably was adding on to your pressures and your mindset and your perspective,” Anthony said. “It took me to go through what I went through to have the time to come back and be at peace with being able to answer all your questions with actual facts.”
Carmelo Anthony played seven seasons for the Knicks, scored 10,186 points -- seventh on the franchise's all-time list -- and made six All-Star teams. But he never even made it to the conference finals. "You deserve this!" Metta World Peace said to Anthony as they found each other on the court after the game. "You started this." Anthony smiled. He had spent the night yelling instructions and observations out to the current Knicks players from his seat, including just before the Knicks' game winner. "I was yelling at them the whole time: 'The offensive rebound is there! The offensive rebound is there!'" Anthony told ESPN. "Coming out of that timeout, I made eye contact with them and was yelling 'The offensive rebound is there! Somebody go!'
Steve Novak: Honestly, I'll say this. Jeremy and Linsanity happened when Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire were hurt. And so there was a lot of messaging from different guys in the locker room and people around the team that said one thing and guys that said the other. I can only speak for myself. Melo was a great teammate. I loved playing with him. I have no confirmed and I mean this I didn't experience and I have no confirmed from Melo or from Jeremy that Melo in any way did anything to get rid of Jeremy or to stop Linsanity or to hurt him. And I know based on what I've spoken privately with Jeremy about his conversation with Melo went really well and then Jeremy said you know we talked about a bunch of stuff and very open about what I heard what he said I heard this kind of stuff and I think it's in a really good place.
Carmelo Anthony on LeBron James: I just think he's going to go through this process and allow himself to just take all of this in and and and just sit back and reflect on everything where he's at, his family, where he's trying to go, what he's trying to accomplish. I honestly don't know if he knows at this moment, which is a which is a good thing, because that goes to show that, at this age and state and his career in the game, he's still committed to being great. He's still committed to bringing something to this game and enhancing this game and pushing this game forward.
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NBA On ESPN: "He's in a state now where it's like, 'I don't have to prove nothing to anybody.' ... I love this comment." — @carmeloanthony on LeBron's GOAT comments 👀🐐
Alvarado comes from a family of die-hard Knicks fans. His favorite Knicks era was the 2010s, watching Carmelo Anthony as well as J. R. Smith and Jeremy Lin, but going to see the Knicks at the Garden wasn’t a part of Alvarado’s youth growing up in Brooklyn and Queens. “I went to one Knicks game [as a child],” Alvarado said. “I saw ‘Melo’ play against the Brooklyn Nets, who were the New Jersey Nets at the time. It was a dream come true.”
Legion Hoops: Carmelo Anthony and Jeremy Lin will shoot a podcast together Wow. Can’t miss this.
“For one, I don’t think nobody else could do it,” former Knicks All-Star Carmelo Anthony, who starred for New York from 2011-17, told Andscape. “I haven’t seen no other organization do that. It’s only in New York where I’ve seen them bring back the legends of the game. Once a Knick, always a Knick. Everybody is sitting there. You got Clyde at the table calling the game. P.E. [Patrick Ewing] to Starks to my generation watching the new generation. It’s super fun. “You become a fan. You become a fan of the [former Knicks]. You become a fan of Bernard King sitting next to Pat and talking about when he used to play, sitting next to [Stephon] Marbury talking about when he used to play. That camaraderie. You can’t buy that.”
