You know what I don’t like? That people give Melo too much of a pass in NYC because Knicks didn’t put that good of a team around him but nobody talks about how Melo could’ve left in 2014 which would’ve been great for both the Knicks and Carmelo Anthony. In 2014, Melo was still a 25 PPG scorer, could’ve went to the Bulls, Clippers or Rockets to compete while Knicks would’ve tanked during a time where the draft was in their favor.

Yeah, watching him force his way to NY and gut the team, when he could have waited, really ruined his chance to be a legit match for MIA and possibly a championship. Also, it showed alot about his character.

He easily is, it’s clear that he value personal glory and money over team success

I used to love Melo, until he showed his real colors in N.Y. by the way he treated Jeremy Lin(Like trash)during Linsanity and probably had him traded at the height of his powers(Lin). Melo could've been special, but he never wanted to work hard at anything more than he wanted Money, La La, & the Ball!

If he retires I’m glad I will have got to see him play in real life this past January in Miami

Carmelo chose money over legacy. Each and every single time. He always took max money and chased stats throughout. He also never learned to play defense, which is truly sad. Carmelo figured out scoring and individual stats. Too bad he never figured out winning, especially post season winning.

Ah man I wish you would have played that Carmelo clip “ hey p they want me to come off the bench” 🤣

Melo is one of my favorite players of all time. He just wasn't built to compete. No drive to win. He wanted the stats and the checks. Yes, he absolutely underachieved

Me personally as a Detroit kid I blame the pistons for how Melo career turned out

When i think about it, the craziest thing to me is that hes only ever won a total of 3 playoff series. Yes, injuries play a part, or a horrible matchup, or u simply run into a vastly superior team. But all these years as "that guy" and only 3 victories? Id have to look who he played every year and the health situation but damn, that quite low.

The style of his play tells us everything about his legacy. Once he gets the ball we all know he is going to shoot it 90 percent of the time smh as for his defense is non existent smh

As someone who grew up a Knicks fan Tyson won dpoy the year before it was the 2011-12 season not the 12-13 season were the Knicks won 54 games but he did have a great year same with Jr till the pacers came around and JR couldn't throw the ball into the ocean and Tyson was outplayed by roy hibbert so much of melos career was bad decisions he decided not to try on the defensive side cause he had the strength and foot speed to be a solid defender he chose not to build with LBJ and wade and him not getting drafted by Detroit is a big what if for his career same with Miami

Melo definitely underachieved, however I’m not mad @ his career choices. Most NBA players would’ve left the Knicks in 2014 and joined a contender and accepted a shorter contract. Melo however simply wanted to make as much money as possible and I respect that. It’s unfortunate he could’ve gone somewhere and had a chance to win but the man simply wanted to get checks and as many as possible, which I can’t hate.

Melo ruined "Linsanity", the truest words ever spoken. 😎

There are MANY ppl ahead of Melo.....definitely not the greatest underachieving player ever.......

Melo was right not to go to Chicago IMO. Rose never recovered and Noah regressed significantly.

No I think people just over hyped him

still one of the greatest pure scorers the game has ever seen 💯

If Melo would e been drafted by the Pistons. He wins 3 rings in his first 3 years and it’s a completely different player

I genuinely think that situation and era play a huge part why guys like dame/Charles/melo never won. They were all good enough to be the best player on a contender but never had the right pieces when they were at their best and when they did it wasn’t comparable to the help other stars who were just blatantly better had. Was melo supposed to beat the Kobe lakers or lebron heat? Those teams had an all time great AND solid role players; just like most every nba champion.

I really wanna see Melo play one more year. Sign with the warriors and I think Steve Kerr can shape him into a formidable role player hopefully ‘Diet Olympic Melo ‘ and have a chance to win a chip.

Melo's legacy is the perfect case study in people overvaluing points per game

It depends what you thought he was going to be, if you wanted a volume scoring wing that could rebound, you got it, if you wanted a good defender or a top 5 offensive threat you have to look somewhere else (he wasn't a willing passer and his efficiency had to improve)

He’s close but imma go with Tracy Mcgrady

You know damn well that CP3 exists

Dude literally couldve waited til the offseason the sign with the knicks but instead he made them give up major assets just to acquire him a couple months early

That Chauncey quote sums up his entire career. Like with Russ, don't be blinded by only the individual positive statistics. Did his play put that team in the best position to win? That's how you determine a first ballot hall of famer.

A prime Rondo or CP3 would have done wonders for Melo in NYC. If he didn’t force his way there it could’ve been a possibility.

There's tons of guys like this: Vince Carter, Tracey McGrady, etc. They put up big numbers, but they don't take control of games, like the actual great players. Melo not only was a choke artist, volume shooter, and horrible defender, he often was clearly overweight and lazy. Melo, by the way, was most efficient at post play; but he refused to post. On that Knicks Pacers series, no way was that good for Melo. Typical volume shooting performance, with 43% from the field.

I never was a huge fan of melo after I saw how he treated Jeremy Lin

Well he’s at least top 5

his ego was his own downfall, he coulda humbled himself and gotten a ring or two

Carmelo chose money over legacy but I don't blame because no matter what was the situation he was still getting offered the big bag to be the exact same but he's still one of my favorite players

Still love Melo. He, along with TMac, were my two post Jordan favourite players.

3:49 holy shit some abysmal stats. Those turnovers and true shooting 🤒

I understand the argument for Melo but I feel like Chris Paul unachieved more & he had better teams .

Nah Vince Carter is the biggest underachiever in NBA history. Scored a lot of points, great dunker, and great longevity...but never even reached a finals. Only reached the conference finals once. Played on several contenders too, not like he had no help.

Carmelo Is The Generations Bernard King

I think Vince Carter Wins that handily.

Team: *passes Melo the ball Melo: *pauses, spins ball, pump fakes, jab-step, pauses, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, jab, (One. Hour. Later.) ...MISSES contested stand still jumper. Makes no effort whatsoever on D bc "it's not my job" *repeats for whole career Idiots: "hOw DiD mElO nEvEr Win AnYtHiNg???!!" Basketball is about flow and he stops it. Watching him play was like watching someone put ketchup on a $150 steak

He’s definitely top 3 .. because he had a chance to play with bron and dwade but he chose to stay with Denver at that time. He also could’ve played with mvp rose at that time.

Karma got the best of Melo. A ring less so called NBA star due to his selfishness.

No one underachieved more than Vince

you can make this same video about James Harden

Billups' comments said it all. And he was being nice about it.

Lin, Smith, Melo, Amar'e, and Chandler was a great squad on paper. Too bad egos and injury got in the way.

Glad i got to see him play back in ‘06. Bro terrorized the Knicks that night. All in all, I think this was mostly the truth. Though i feel there was a lil extra mustard on the return during Linsanity. I don’t think him wanting his team back over a worse player had anything to do with him being Asian or going to Harvard. He’s selfish, not racist.

That’s my legend, Melo.

the way i see it, melo's career looks like a what if scenario of KD's. both high volume, highly skilled players drafted into a small market team. one just went into a different direction from the other. you could compare KD joining GSW to melo being recruited to join DWade and Lebron. not the way it was handled or happened but how a superstar was recruited into a superteam. KD wanted to buy in while melo didnt.

OK we can call Carmelo an underachieving player until we remember Tracy McGrady

LeBron was still stacking teams. Now he is earning empty stats.

Prime melo was beast he only made 1 and his only conference finals with Mr big shot one semi finals with Knicks lebron wade and bosh even his former teammate Jeremy Lin has ring

Yes. He cared more about money and his numbers than winning. He was supposed yo go to Miami instead of Bosh but he wasn't going to take a pay cut.

This Nigga hatin😂

This is kd without the rings

Total banger video. Balanced and informative. Well done, YM!

If only melo would have beat Kobe in 2009. That would have been his championship right there.

Yes.. the problem is that Carmelo didn't want to play defense or Playmake and He also Killed His Team by not moving the ball...

16:49 YM to melo: “Who do you think you are?” My response: “LeBron James” 🤣

No that would be tmac, never made it out the 1st round in his career, melo made the 2d rd twice in 19 yrs lol

Just look at Melo in the thumbnail. Clearly not in the best possible shape and that’s how he was most of his time on the Knicks. He was completely content playing in NYC, getting big checks, and going for 40 every night win or lose.

The impression I always got from Melo was that he thought that if he took a tough shot that most guys would hit at 20-30% and he hit it at 40% then that meant it was a good shot... I'd rather have him scoring 20ppg on layups and wide open 3's than 30ppg on shooting an insane amount of tough shots and poor efficiency. That Chauncey quote summed Melo up perfectly. He never wanted to work on the parts of his game that he didn't do well, he never prioritized the team winning over his own stats and he was a selfish player. I am a diehard Knicks fan and I was upset the second I heard about the trade for Melo. I knew we gave up too much for him and as I watched him while the team tried to rebuild I realized he doesn't have the mindset or work ethic to be #1 on a championship team

Finally, You addressed this

I like the take, I guess it just depends on prospective. Like you said he could have played with mvp rose, bron & wade and dame and cj but also wanted to be the guy and get the bag in New York

They have a commercial with Perkins telling mellow how he makes bad decisions which is very very true he got to the New York teams over a few dollars he could have waited and played with a great team that would have won championships

Melo had the opportunity to join Lebron and Wade but he declined to get an extra 20 mill. Oh well.

Yes

Hey Yung Mustard, you forgot how he snaked Jeremy Lin and Mike D'antoni!

love videos like this keep it up im tuning in every time for these vids

Don’t worry y’all where ever k d goes he gonna be right there to assist him in winning a championship

every superstar who doesn't play good/elite defense, and are a major black hole on offense, are all massively overrated and don't win any championships, unless they join a super team at the tail end of their careers

Depends.. not winning a championship it's arguable. Not winning enough due to talent, it's arguably Wilt.

Carmelo had the same potential as LeBron. I'm serious. He was better than LeBron all the way up to and through their rookie seasons together. The difference is LeBron took his greatness seriously, and Melo spent his nights at the club, drinking and who knows what else Melo could have been in the goat debate. He was destined to the the Bird to LeBron's Magic Johnson, but never matured

I been saying for years he needs to come back to Denver that would be legendary!

Great Video, 100% Facts Bro

Melo was only about scoring, unoachable and was not a team player.

Ur content is amazing man, it deserves more attention

what's the name of the opening song?

No, that would be Tracy Mcgrady

Yo..a James Anthony Wade team up would have been disastrous.

Like Iverson Westbrook and other through NBA history, he's not a championship caliber player, not because of his skills but because of his approach of the game. Also I don't think that he was opened to listen to his staff even when they have what it took to win championships. All those years in the Knicks I felt a bit sorry for Zen Master who succeeded in handling strong headed players like Jordan, Rodman, O'Neal and Bryant to stumble upon a guy like Melo who has none of those players intangible but think he's on the same level.

Lots of great players & great scorers didn’t win a title, why would Melo be the biggest underachiever of them all?

I wouldn’t even put him the in the hall of fame, he underachieved a lot and doesn’t have anything to show for other then all star appearance and a gold medals which a lot of other players have that as well

A shame he matured at the twilight of his career….man’s prioritized scoring numbers and the bag rather than team success…I mean it’s crazy to think about he picked NY than joining Lebron and Wade in heat….I’m glad Bosh was chosen anyways. It took him almost getting out of the league to embrace a role…might be too little too late

Bro asked melo who did he think he is

Ken-YON …Came-Bee …come on G lol

Whats the first music track used?👀

Clearly none of you have heard of Elgin Baylor

He would’ve made a devastating #3-4 option on the big 3 Miami Heat team (whether Bosh or him switch idk) ain’t no way dirk wins his first and only chip dirk owes him a lot of love for being greedy and not denying him a ring 💍

Worst thing to happen to him was not being drafted by Detroit......

Lol I’m seeing so many legacy videos pop up all of a sudden but Melo one of my all time favorite players and Mustard been on a roll so I gotta watch this one!

He wasn't a team player and was always a guy that wants the ball. Bad recipe for winning games!

Melo is the iverson of his generation then he passed his title to westbrick

What team was he supposed to win with please tell me. He was never on the best team in any playoff series he lost

In the words of Mccockiner One of the most overrated players in the NBA and is on par with James Harden as one of the greatest playoff underachievers ever (this is my opinion tho lmao)

Most underrated player ever A NBA 🏆 away from being one of the very few players to win at EVERY level

I noticed you skipped Melo’s comeback season where he started and guided the blazers to the playoffs but overall he’s definitely did not underachieve, unless you thought he was suppose to be MJ level

It’s wild to think his defense, leadership and passing never evolved to the point it should have with some many of his piers developing that part of their game to win rings and the legends before doing that as provable evidence of what it takes to win rings. Jordan did it, bird was great as a team defender, Jerry west was a great defender and passer, he saw his mentor Kobe do it, his friends wade, lebron, durant did it, curry did it, jordan did it and maybe only magic never got to that point of defense but as a leader, passer, clutch performer in the playoffs plus that laker market and stacked teams was enough to make up for it. Just sad to look at, he never become the multi faceted player he could have been. He had great athleticism too! Maybe not great lateral quickness but great strength, height, speed, wingspan etc he had good to really good handles at least enough to make better passes…

By the way, Melo went to OKC as a potential number one option, number two at worst, because Paul George was very underrated, even though he did great on the Pacers. But Melo got exposed next to a truly good SF in George.

Imho, a little bit better playmaking and some defense would have helped his teams alot.