Carmelo Anthony: NBA All-Star, Olympic Gold Medalist, and Scoring Machine
Anthony, who was selected third overall in the 2003 NBA Draught, had a distinguished 19-year career that featured 10 NBA All-Star appearances, six All-NBA choices, a scoring championship, and a spot on the NBA’s 75th anniversary squad.
For a large portion of his NBA career, his ability to score the basketball made him one of the most feared and lucrative players in the league. His 28,289 career points rank him seventh on the all-time scoring list.
Prior to playing in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Portland Trail Blazers, and Los Angeles Lakers, Anthony memorably guided Syracuse to its first national men’s basketball championship as a freshman.
Anthony achieved three Olympic gold medals as a part of Team USA in Rio in 2016, London in 2012, and Beijing in 2008, and one bronze in Athens in 2004.
During the 2010/11 season, he moved to the New York Knicks in an exceptionally exposed exchange however would propel past the main round of the End of the season games only once in his time at Madison Square Nursery.
Anthony recorded his vocation high and the Knicks’ establishment record with a 62-point execution in the Nursery against the Charlotte Catamounts in January 2014.
He was exchanged to the Roar in 2017 and afterward to the Rockets in 2018, where he played only a couple of games prior to being held out of the group.
In November 2019, over a year after he last played in the NBA, he marked an arrangement with the Pioneers and delighted in something of a renaissance, proceeding to assume an essential part in the group arriving at the end of the season games during the NBA bubble.
After two seasons in Portland – during which Anthony broke into the main 10 of the NBA’s unequaled scoring list – he finished paperwork for the Lakers for the 2021/22 season for what might be his last dynamic year in the NBA, as the group completed eleventh in the Western Gathering.
“You’re such a legend and past my sibling,” LeBron James, who went No. 1 generally in a similar draft class, composed on an Instagram story.
“Congrats on a helluva ride.”
NBA Chief Adam Silver said in a tweet, “Carmelo Anthony is one of the NBA’s unsurpassed extraordinary players and representatives. We compliment him on a surprising 19-year vocation and anticipate seeing him in the Corridor of Distinction.”
Life after basketball
Anthony started a winemaking business during his tenure in the NBA and aspires to leave a lasting legacy that extends beyond the basketball floor.
But he was lonesome when he first began to enjoy alcohol.
Regarding his early years in the NBA, he said to CNN Sport in 2022 that “there was no wine in the NBA.” “I had been on a voyage since [2005], without even realising it was a wine adventure.
“I was drinking wine, going to a restaurant, sitting at the bar, and asking for a glass of wine with [teammates] just looking at me like, ‘Man, what is he doing?'”
Most guys would laugh and warn Anthony that it wasn’t a good habit, Anthony recounted.During road trips to Sacramento, California, where he would attend wine clubs selling varietals from the surrounding Napa Valley and other regions of the world, he started to comprehend the worth and quality of wines.
Anthony’s enthusiasm for wine increased when he was transferred from the Nuggets to the Knicks in 2011.
It just introduced me to a whole new world of wine enthusiasts, various wines, discussions, and palates. And after that, I was certain that this was the genre I wanted to work in.
Anthony said that the league’s other players gradually began to appreciate Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Beaujolais.
