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
There was no way I could have taken the final shot tonight. They had three people right there, and Earl Watson was wide open.
They shot . . . near 80 percent out there. Everybody had a hot hand. It was hard to adjust our defense to everybody out there.
Every time we play San Antonio, it's always going to be tough. They send two or three people at me. . . . I knew my shot wasn't going down from the outside. I just tried to keep going to the hole and get some fouls.
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.
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 knew I was going to get a shot up. It was just a matter of what type of shot I was going to get.
My confidence level is out of this world right now. I feel every shot I put up there is going in.
I can't worry that we didn't get him. It was rumors all along.
I couldn't sleep last night due to the pain. I tried to go out there and play tonight, but by the third quarter it started tightening up on me.
I wanted to play. (But) it's nothing I can be upset about.
After this road trip, I think it will say a lot about us and where we stand.
I don't even know what happened out there, it was all so fast.
(Karl) just told us management had to make a decision.