What REALLY Happened to Carmelo Anthony!?

Carmelo Anthony, 10x All Star, 6x All NBA, and a member of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team which signified the 75 best players in the NBA ever. But if there is one thing that makes up a great player and a champion at that, is a mix of greatness, skill, and selflessness. And one of the main takes that I have that alot of people do not agree with is the fact I believe every shortcoming that was brought upon Carmelo Anthony, was due to mainly himself. And the main component that goes into his downfall as a player, starts in his time in the Big Apple, New York City. In this video I want to do a deep dive on the downfall of Carmelo Anthony and how he Ruined his Career with the New York Knicks.

Chapters:
0:00 - 1:17 Intro
1:17 - 2:13 Ad Read
2:13 - 7:43 Carmelo and the Denver Nuggets (Prolougue)
7:43 - 14:18 Strike 1 Carmelo Anthony Treatment of Mike D'Antoni
14:18 - 22:16 Strike 2 Carmelo running out Jeremy Lin out of New York
22:16 - 27:48 Carmelo Anthony in New York Post Jeremy Lin and Mike D'Antoni
27:48 - 33:17 Strike 3 Carmelo Never Learning his Lesson
33:17 - 35:08 Conclusion

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[chrilpy]

Glad to see someone holding Melo accountable for what he did to NY. Sure he helped the team make the playoffs a couple times but not to be good enough to contend. Mediocrity is useless in the NBA. Melo only cared about the stats and money

[luigivincenz]

When Lebron. Wade & Bosh teamed up, they actually spoke w/ Melo into joining years before and had enough money on the table to make it work. The 3 planned it beforehand to make sure their contracts expire on a certain year. Melo refused to have his structured to expire the same time thinking he was more badass. We know how that worked.

[michaelo]

Never really thought about the fact melo had Karl, Mike d’antoni(ahead of his time with his offensive scheme) and Phil to do nothing in the playoffs. Can’t get more blessed and I think Karl was right where he had the talent to be a triple double machine but refused to go outside his comfort zone of scoring and learn actual basketball. I use to feel bad for melos career but this video was really well made on reminding me and clearing up exactly what happened

[abdu]

use this as a “melo ruined linsanity” button

[andyattard]

Truly believe if Lin stayed in New York he would have had a great career trajectory. He might have cooled down after linsanity and not be a superstar but would have definitely been a great point guard for New York instead of guys like Felton, old Jose Colderon, Prigioni and so on. At least he won a ring as a consolation for Melo's ego.

[Ianoxen]

I feel like Carmelo is just a talented scorer that was just given the chance to score as much as he can without concern about the other important factors of defense, involving the team, elevating team mates, etc. My point to that is that there would be several players to have similar stats to him if THEY were given that chance.

[JECZ]

Never forget how jealous this dude was during the Jeremy Lin craze. He was seething! Also never forget when Billups said how Melo would be hyped when they lost in DEN cuz he & he alone had a good game but be a debbie downer when they won as a team but he didn't score over 20. Horrible teammate.

[mrjohn]

Its called aging, it happens to all players. Not every player is Lebron or Cp3 and can play ar an elite level well into their mid to late 30s. It was obvious from the start of Melos career with his play style he could never win anything significant as the #1 guy with his type of play style (not very team friendly).

[rnuke_rocket]

Hot Take: Hawks' Melo is the best version of Melo 😆

[tonywong]

I just felt like Carmelo was just chasing to be a star in New York. He just wanted the name brand but couldn't handle those lights like he thought he (and many other players) could.

[vicetea]

I always thought it was a damn shame Melo matured too late.

tho i gotta say it's a bigger shame how Jeremy Lin got shut out from the NBA as a whole, while still being good enough to to have Likely started over many other guards in the league, that shit always blew my mind. I like the newer humble mature Melo, he just got there too late.

[TheChef]

If he waited until his contract was up with Denver and became a free agent and signed with the next they wouldn't have had to trade away all that bench depth that they traded to get him and would have been a much better team

[yshuproblem]

Correction: the year Melo beat the Celtics was the year that Ray Allen left for Miami (and made that clutch 3) and Rondo tore his ACL and was out for the rest of the season.

[vulcanraven]

This video is 35 minutes long but the answer was much simpler. Melo gotnold and he never had a good defensive or passing game. So his presence on court aged like milk

[prestonlhouse]

Knick fan her. Melo was the prototype for Kyrie. Melo wanted to be the man. He did not what to share the spotlight. The Knicks traded a team for him. and it failed.

[apostleinthemaking]

The knicks have a 8 game winning streak right now with the potential of becoming 14-1 in December 2022. It's because Randle sold into the idea to run the offense through the pg Jalen Brunson and use that energy he was giving on offense being the lead on defense. If Carmelo would have sold into the idea of running the offense through Jeremy Lin we might have won a championship. It's not that Lin was the better player but he was the better player to run the offense with. Same thing happened to him when he went to the Rockets. Harden should have let Lin and Chris Paul run the offense instead of wanting to take the ball. Who knows Harden might have had a championship if he would have given his pg the ball and stepped back.

[montimiller]

Chauncey Billups coach now for the Portland Blazers and former teammate(Nuggets)of Melo said it best, when he stated that when the Nuggets would win a game and Melo only had 20-25 points he(Melo)was disappointed that he didn't have more points, and when they(Nuggets)would lose and Melo had 35-40 points he(Melo)would be elated almost happy that he had the stats but they lost, which let Billups know at that time what Melo was really about and it clearly wasn't about Winning or Team!!!

[JMerzz]

Amare Stoudemire was signed by the NY Knicks in free agency in July 2010.

[memyselfandi]

This remind me of stunted growth lowkey

[slobberkissintl]

Ok but Carmelo only needs about 500pts to bump Shaq out of the top 10 and I need to see Barkley's reaction 😆😆😆