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use this as a “melo ruined linsanity” button

Glad to see someone holding Melo accountable for what he did to NY. Sure he helped the team make the playoffs a couple times but not to be good enough to contend. Mediocrity is useless in the NBA. Melo only cared about the stats and money

Never really thought about the fact melo had Karl, Mike d’antoni(ahead of his time with his offensive scheme) and Phil to do nothing in the playoffs. Can’t get more blessed and I think Karl was right where he had the talent to be a triple double machine but refused to go outside his comfort zone of scoring and learn actual basketball. I use to feel bad for melos career but this video was really well made on reminding me and clearing up exactly what happened

When Lebron. Wade & Bosh teamed up, they actually spoke w/ Melo into joining years before and had enough money on the table to make it work. The 3 planned it beforehand to make sure their contracts expire on a certain year. Melo refused to have his structured to expire the same time thinking he was more badass. We know how that worked.

I feel like Carmelo is just a talented scorer that was just given the chance to score as much as he can without concern about the other important factors of defense, involving the team, elevating team mates, etc. My point to that is that there would be several players to have similar stats to him if THEY were given that chance.

Truly believe if Lin stayed in New York he would have had a great career trajectory. He might have cooled down after linsanity and not be a superstar but would have definitely been a great point guard for New York instead of guys like Felton, old Jose Colderon, Prigioni and so on. At least he won a ring as a consolation for Melo's ego.

Hot Take: Hawks' Melo is the best version of Melo 😆

Never forget how jealous this dude was during the Jeremy Lin craze. He was seething! Also never forget when Billups said how Melo would be hyped when they lost in DEN cuz he & he alone had a good game but be a debbie downer when they won as a team but he didn't score over 20. Horrible teammate.

I just felt like Carmelo was just chasing to be a star in New York. He just wanted the name brand but couldn't handle those lights like he thought he (and many other players) could.

Its called aging, it happens to all players. Not every player is Lebron or Cp3 and can play ar an elite level well into their mid to late 30s. It was obvious from the start of Melos career with his play style he could never win anything significant as the #1 guy with his type of play style (not very team friendly).

I remember a game where Melo had a 50 or 60 point(i forgot which is which) and he's all happy smiling and celebrating in the bench while his team is losing. That's when i realized that this guy won't win a championship. Never liked the guy after that.

If he waited until his contract was up with Denver and became a free agent and signed with the next they wouldn't have had to trade away all that bench depth that they traded to get him and would have been a much better team

I always thought it was a damn shame Melo matured too late. tho i gotta say it's a bigger shame how Jeremy Lin got shut out from the NBA as a whole ,while still being good enough to to have Likely started over many other guards in the league ,that shit always blew my mind. I like the newer humble mature Melo, he just got there too late.

Correction: the year Melo beat the Celtics was the year that Ray Allen left for Miami (and made that clutch 3) and Rondo tore his ACL and was out for the rest of the season.

Ok but Carmelo only needs about 500pts to bump Shaq out of the top 10 and I need to see Barkley's reaction 😆😆😆

It brings me joy as a Raptors fan whenever I hear about Bargnani to the Knicks

it also helps that chumps never played defense, got mad when linsanity blew up in ny, gutted the kniccs' roster when traded 2 ny, refused 2 come off the bench in okc, was a bad teammate an never played defense. 🙄🙄

Knick fan her. Melo was the prototype for Kyrie. Melo wanted to be the man. He did not what to share the spotlight. The Knicks traded a team for him. and it failed.

This remind me of stunted growth lowkey

Noti gang gang gang as peer to peer would say.

Honestly, teams like the Cavs, Grizzlies, or Pelicans, should sign Carmelo Anthony to a 10-day contract, or at the vet's minimum for the rest of the season. Need scoring off-the-bench and veteran leadership in the locker room, sign 'Melo for cheap.

I can't believe that the best player to wear 15 for the Nuggets turned out to be some random Serbian in the 2nd round.

The knicks have a 8 game winning streak right now with the potential of becoming 14-1 in December 2022. It's because Randle sold into the idea to run the offense through the pg Jalen Brunson and use that energy he was giving on offense being the lead on defense. If Carmelo would have sold into the idea of running the offense through Jeremy Lin we might have won a championship. It's not that Lin was the better player but he was the better player to run the offense with. Same thing happened to him when he went to the Rockets. Harden should have let Lin and Chris Paul run the offense instead of wanting to take the ball. Who knows Harden might have had a championship if he would have given his pg the ball and stepped back.

Clique punching the air rn lol

Great video. Melo has to blame himself for how his career ended. If he was more humble and realized going to the bench would help his team more then he might still be on a team. A lot of people will point out how Melo adjusted to the change in the NBA from iso ball to more team ball but they always site him in Portland and LA..... like he had a choice or anything. LOL. In Portland it was come off the bench or not be on the team. LA wasn't a contender at all so Melo could fall back into his old ways since they needed scoring.

One of the best FIBA Basketball players ever

Amare Stoudemire was signed by the NY Knicks in free agency in July 2010.

He’s got the most polished scoring 1 on 1 game based on skills. Stare down midrange, dribble to post up transition off the dribble, step back shooting before it got popular, great handles and hesitation, and size to over power guards but speed to take out bigger defenders. Only thing he didn’t do often was shoot 3s, but that was a different era. Of this man played defense and played team ball, would have loved to see a Lebron / Carmelo Rivalry.

On the note of George Karl: Dude’s a fantastic HC, but I find it hilarious that he still takes shots at Melo on twitter to this day lmao

Chauncey Billups coach now for the Portland Blazers and former teammate(Nuggets)of Melo said it best, when he stated that when the Nuggets would win a game and Melo only had 20-25 points he(Melo)was disappointed that he didn't have more points, and when they(Nuggets)would lose and Melo had 35-40 points he(Melo)would be elated almost happy that he had the stats but they lost, which let Billups know at that time what Melo was really about and it clearly wasn't about Winning or Team!!!

Melo is just a SELFISH player who wants the ball always in his hands, not good for any team. Not worthy to be compared to true great players like Jordan, Lebron, Kobe, Wade, Pippen, Kawhi, etc...

Keep it up bro 🐐

start to finish, wonderful video

CARMELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAANTHONYYYYYYYYYY -Flight

From memory, Lin never got any offer from the Knicks

"scoring 30 points meant too much to melo. he could have games where he scored 20, 22 points and we'd win the game, but he was mad. he might have 36 and we lose the game and he's in there picking everyone up." - chauncy billups

The Knicks and they entire world know that they should have kept Lin

Melo messed up not doing 2 things. Either joining the Heat or waiting till he was a FA to then sign with NYK. As far as the Bulls go. D Rose never showed up to the meeting. Why go to a team when the star don’t want you there? As far as OKC goes. You’d expect a player he was literally a all star the year prior. #1 option on his team. To not be the 3rd option. But off the bench? How does tht sound? Stars have issues adjusting to the 2nd or 3rd option. Off the bench? Lol cmon.

Excellent video 👌👌

I mean is this a hot take? When have we said, “The Knicks would be good for anyone’s career?” Like, no one thinks the Knicks is an organization that’s actually good for someone’s career.

I really hated the trade for Carmelo Anthony from Denver. Management and partly the fans (Who chanted "We want Melo") were too impatient with what we had. I really liked the lineup of Gallinari, Wilson Chandler and Raymond Felton. We gave up way too much just to have an early first round exit from the playoffs that year. Knicks could have gotten him for nothing if they waited.

Thst Isaiah Thomas clip took me out 🤣🤣

There's no question Lin received racism, jealousy and animosity from other players.

They should have definitely matched Lin.

He was becoming hated in Denver before he demanded a trade. It was apparent that he played for himself instead of the team.

This a great video frfr

He's got one of the smoothest jumpers though. Just butter.

This video should be mandatory viewing for all Knicks fans who are just desperate to throw everything at say, Chicago, for the likes of Zach Levine. It is, frankly, incredible that Knicks management was seriously having those conversations, but one would think the fan-base would learn these lessons, eventually. In today’s NBA, you have to grow a team organically, mostly through sound draft picks. Then, you have to focus resources into their development. Current Knicks leadership hasn’t been perfect at this, but they have been far better than most franchises. Players take time to develop, and they have to be shown why the buy-in to team philosophy ultimately benefits them across the board. Right now, it’s working; Brunson is developing into a legit star and Randle has seemed to see the error in his ways. Quickley has gotten better year after year, and the Knicks were absolutely right not to squander Grimes in a lop-sided trade. They ARE going to have to trade some of these guys for a legit superstar, at some point, but fit is everything. I still don’t think Mitchell was THE ONE, and I believe the Cavs playoff fortunes will bear that out.

I don’t understand it for Melo. He had Karl & Mike, great players in Lin & Amare in NY, AND could have waited til free agency to sign with NY so they would have a more complete roster. He was just blinded by the worst type of greed to have all those blessings & great ppl around him and him treat them like doo doo

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1800">30:00</a> Max to Molly: Did a no look pass! lol smooth 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You nailed it as it is... now was.

As a Knicks fan Melo Time here wasn't too bad. he would win a Playoff game ? Win the Scoring Title Score a Career high against Bobcats 62 pts

Love you Alvini

Carmelo will go down as one of the most overrated players in history and it's always the people that don't know the fundamentals of basketball that love Carmelo so much that think he's being blackballed when it's his own dam fault his career is over. His fans act like Carmelo is owed a roster spot.

Melo’s Knicks years are judged unfairly imo due to the fact he was in the same conference as 2 super teams, Celtics and Heat. Nobody really thought he could beat those teams in a 7 game series.

They should have kept jeremy lin and mello should have bought in to jeremy lin who was 23 at the time..TAKE NOTE the year after they traded lin the team never made the play offs and went down hill.

not defending melo but always same story with George Carl

If only he waited until he was a free agent to sign with the Knicks.

He shouldn’t have requested a trade to New York if he wanted to be a Knick he should’ve signed with them as a free agent

There was no chance the Knicks were going to have a good playoffs run as long as LBJ was in the East

melos career would have been completely different if he was drafted by the pistons. on that team he would have been forced to play defense and be a more complete and team oriented player than what he became.

I can get into some much with you about Melo, i agree with your view points. I want to point out one thing to shows Melo is not a championship player. A champion does what it takes to win. Jeremy Lin not only immerged, the Knicks as a team avg score jumped, the team played as a team. Melo was asked, when he comes back from injury, (Mind you before Melo got hurt, they was destine to miss the playoff. J Lin carried NY to the playoffs, period) who is taking the last shot, he laughed and said me. A winner would say, the one most open, the one with the hottest hand etc. He refused to change his game, play defense and played selfish.

Why do they all think early on that coming off the bench is an Insult like they will never check in 😂😂

All he had to do to revive, or maintain his legend status was take a pay cut ( just not a max ) and go to the bulls. Jimmy rose Noah and Melo at Sf. Smh my head

This video is 35 minutes long but the answer was much simpler. Melo gotnold and he never had a good defensive or passing game. So his presence on court aged like milk

Melo was just a stat chaser. Perennial loser. Literally made it to the conference finals once. As much as I don't like that clown Howard, he should've gotten then nod over Melo

Lmao I thought I was tripping but thats definitely a Runescape fossil island trap remix in this video

What people tend to miss. Is. If not for Melo’s greed to leave Denver early. Lin would never got his chance in NY

Can you do a video on how good of a coach is George Karl? He’s coached 4 top 75 players I think(3 for sure) and he has zero rings

Melo was jealous New yorker Asians love JLin and there's ton of Asians there . JLin popularity was literally bigger than Melo lmao .

Was never a fan of Melos play style. Struggled in any team setting cause he was such an individual.

iso-melo......and when you have a black hole iso guy, it stagnates the offense without ball movement

Nah it's as simple as this...he never should've signed the extension with Denver...he was supposed to be with lebron and Wade not Bosh...then he wants to go to the Knicks but the Knicks have to give up half the team to get him

Finally someone that agrees with me lol I had this same take years ago when Carmelo got traded to the Knicks and I’m a long time Knicks fan the moment he wanted to get traded as suppose to waiting the next year when he was gonna b a free agent he couldn’t wait we gutted are whole team I knew it would never work he set back the Knicks franchise for year shoot till this day because of his decisions from the trade and to Jeremy Lin running him outta town which at that time was our best point guard untill now cause we have jalen Brunson.

Hated on Lin, couldn't get over that

Crazy this popped up right after he retired

You are right my guy.

It's really as simple as not signing over free agency and making us trade everything we had and then some for him

Melo over Dwight is crazy 😂

Not the blue berry faygo 😂

Melo was old school he didn’t believe in teaming up. He wanted to be win on his own. Yes he did join stars later in his career but he was old and already close to the end. In his prime Melo would’ve never joined a super team to win

Melo could have waited 6 months and signed as a free agent or in a sign and trade with the Knicks. That would have made it so the Knicks could have kept there depth and build around Amare and Carmelo.

I feel bad for Melo. I modeled my game before him. He just has that massive ego that he will always be the go to guy and when he changed his ways, it was too late for him.

One of the best players I ever watched! Scorer, rebounder, never blame teammates, always took the burden and even took the pressure of playing in New York! One of the best man. Top 40 all time

Melo was all "ME" "ME" "ME"..needless to say, always a bridesmaid never the bride.. 🤣

Preach

Maybe the offer for Jeremy Lin deal to Houston came overseas.

Point blank you can't put pressure on a guy to win a championship when jr Smith is the second best player on the team and there's a super team around. Let's get real knicks fans.

Clique fuming rn watching this

hi pete, i'm out of job, i now willing to be bench

I think Lin made more sense to Houston than he did to any other team. Even a matched salary wouldn't compete w/ the deals in China that Houston could help him get. IF he lived up to the hype he had created. He still got a lot of that support, but he was a guy that opponents were able to gameplan against and he didn't have the tools to overcome the gaps in his game. He had a very respectable career, but NY keeping him wouldn't have changed anything and in the long run I think him moving on benefited both parties. He never would have gotten the chance to be Jeremy Lin in NY, it was always going to be Linsanity or bust. In Portland, Melo was a model player. The players and staff spoke in his favor, saying that much of what people said about him before his time there wasn't what they experienced. Maybe the realizations came too late or maybe a coach that he drove to quit wasn't interested in entertaining a conversation with him since his skills were slipping. I definitely think Melo could still play in the league today, but he'd be eating a spot teams prefer to use for young guys that might develop into something some day. That 8th or 9th guy who comes in at the end of the 3rd, beginning of the 4th that tries to grow a lead or start a come back. He could probably still give someone a solid 8-12min a night. Its just, maybe he could be great in that role, but if you got a young guy you think could be a rotation guy in the future you want them getting that experience even if he's going to be less consistent. There have been guys like Josh Smith in his short stint with this Houston team that turned a series around after getting hot and started dropping 3s like someone else was wearing his body. A lot of championship teams have that type of guy in that role, but it could be bc they also tend not to have a lot of young guys.

He brought that on himself mr ballhog

Arguably one the best individual scorer. Too bad for him basketball is a team sport.

I think Melo took for granted his offensive skills and put little to no effort on his defensive side, thinking that the first part would be enough to succeed. But the game evolved, defense became a lot more crucial to success in the NBA and Melo never took the next step.

Imagine if melo went to the nets instead

It's sucks bc I met Carmelo Anthony and his son in New York like 3 times last decade 😢

🙇🏾‍♂️"WHO? ME?😂😂😂😂😂"

First of all, Melo is from Manhattan. That's his birthplace, grew up in Baltimore. He went home, he didn't go to New York for the lights and glamour.

Use this as a “The owner didnt want Lin back cause of the poison pill contract and Melo doesnt control anybody being signed or released and Lin got exposed by the Miami heat and didnt do anything with the rockets or lakers button