Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School and Oak Hill Academy before playing college basketball at Syracuse. In Anthony's freshman season, he led the Orangemen to their first ever National Championship and was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Anthony then entered the 2003 NBA draft where he was selected with the third overall pick by the Denver Nuggets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth29 May 1984
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
They're trying to bring the whole team. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring (former Cincinnati coach Bob) Huggins up here.
It was a broken play. We didn't have anything when they jumped out on our pick- and-roll. I wanted to take the last shot whether I missed it or I made it, which I didn't. I've made more than I've missed at the end of the game.
I knew my shot wasn't going in from the outside, so I decided to keep on going to the hole and get some fouls called.
You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.
It's a sad story. That would surprise anybody when you hear something like that, especially as one of your peers in the NBA. We've already got a bad rap. The NBA as a whole, we've got a bad rap.
I don't think anybody thought we'd be where we are now, after three years. This is one of the stages we've been trying to get to. Now that we're here, we want to move forward and win a playoff series.
I don't think anybody knew or thought we would be where we're at in three years.
I think we just came together seeing we were down. We couldn't lose our first game after the (All-Star) break so we had to focus in and we did a good job of that.
(It's) going to be a playoff-like game, and we've got to bring it.
It was tough to come out. I didn't want to come out. I felt like I had it going on. I guess (Karl) felt I needed a rest or something like that.
Shawn Marion overplayed it, he reached, and once I saw that, I knew I had a clear shot at the basket once I got my feet set. I wanted to win, even before I got my face smacked. Then I got energy from that, even though Eddie did it.
I let the team down. We still had a chance to win the game, so of course I think I let the team down. Not just the team, but the whole organization.
It's going to motivate us. We hear a lot of stuff, they want to play us and things like that, and we take that as motivation.
I knew I was going to get a shot up. It was just a matter of what type of shot I was going to get.