Knicks fans, you must be excited for the upcoming season, especially with the acquisitions of Joakim Noah, a former NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and a former NBA Most Valuable Player, Derrick Rose, who boldly stated, “I think we have a chance to win every game.” All you need now is for your leader, Carmelo Anthony to put the icing on the cake and bring it on home for the Big Apple.
Melo, what do you have to say for yourself?
“I would be very happy walking away from the game…won a championship at Syracuse and possibly three gold medals.” "I don’t know why people think that a gold medal is any different than winning an NBA championship.” “I can look back on it when my career is over- if I don’t have an NBA ring- I had a great career.” “At the end, I’ll be satisfied with that.”
Why would Melo say these things? Why would the captain ever admit defeat so early? Why doesn’t he feel hungry? Knicks’ fans rejuvenated excitement for the New York Knicks season might have gone out the window. Let us try and understand why Melo is being so Mellow.
“This is it for me.” An emotional Carmelo Anthony announced his retirement from the Olympic Games as the only NBA player to win three gold medals. He completes his Olympic career as USA’ s all-time leader in points, rebounds and games played. Anthony can be debated as one of the greatest basketball Olympians of all-time.
As we see Anthony’s Olympic career come to a close, his timeline as an NBA player is also coming to a close. For Anthony’s NBA success, it cannot be compared to his three gold medals. His accolades as an Olympian and NBA player precedes him as a great player, but those accomplishments are fading with him as stories of the past. The last time Anthony had a well-documented season was in 2013, as he received the crowns of a scoring champion, a title that doesn’t come with any hardware and an All-NBA Second Team decree. As time winds down for the nine-time all-star, conclusions have been made that he will not win or even get close to touching an NBA title.
For Melo-maniacs, it is time to make peace that Carmelo Anthony, along with Patrick Ewing, Bernard King, and recently retired Amar’e Stoudemire will finish his NBA career as another great Knickerbocker who just couldn’t get it done. Even Anthony’s former college coach, Jim Boeheim of Syracuse University doesn’t believe that Melo will win the big one saying, “He’s unlikely to win an NBA title.” If Knicks fans will not agree with the head coach of the mighty Orange, the history of Anthony or even Anthony himself, then you might need to breathe and chill like the mellow Melo.
