The basketball world knew he wouldn’t have to attend lengthy, however now Carmelo Anthony is aware of he’s a member of the Class of 2025.
The ten-time NBA All-Star has been notified he’s been elected into the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame, in line with ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Anthony, a six-time All-NBA choice and 2003 All-Rookie Group choice, will get into illustrious firm after 19 NBA seasons by which he averaged 22.5 factors and 6.2 rebounds per recreation over 1,260 appearances (1,120 begins).
Anthony’s fast ascension into one of many NBA’s deadliest scorers began in 2003 when the Denver Nuggets chosen him third total, behind future first poll Corridor of Famer LeBron James and Serbian middle Darko Miličić. Anthony averaged 21.0 factors and 6.1 rebounds on 42.6% taking pictures his rookie 12 months, however completed second behind James for the Rookie of the 12 months award.
From there, Anthony’s scoring elevated.
His highest factors per recreation common got here in the course of the 2006-07 season with the Nuggets when he recorded 28.9 in 65 video games with a Denver workforce that misplaced, 4-1, to the eventual champion San Antonio Spurs in a Western Convention First Spherical sequence.
The soon-to-be first-ballot Corridor of Famer ultimately spent seven seasons in Denver earlier than a 2011 blockbuster three-team commerce to New York made him the face of the franchise. Anthony was chosen to the All-Star workforce in all seven seasons he spent in New York (2010-17). He received the NBA scoring title in 2013 after recording 28.7 factors per recreation. Anthony additionally completed third for MVP that season, behind winner James and Kevin Durant.
In his seven seasons with the Knicks, Anthony averaged 24.7 factors, 7.0 rebounds and three.2 assists. He by no means managed to hold the Knicks previous the second spherical of the playoffs. He reached the Western Convention Finals as a member of the Nuggets as soon as, however his workforce fell in six video games to Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers in 2009.
Anthony spent components of his ultimate 5 NBA seasons with the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, Houston Rockets, Portland Path Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers.
The star merely referred to as “Melo” completed his profession with 28,289 factors, good for tenth on the NBA all-time scoring checklist.
He by no means received any MVP awards or captured an elusive NBA title, however completed his profession as one of the adorned Olympic basketball gamers of all-time. He received three consecutive gold medals in the course of the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic Video games. He additionally took dwelling the bronze medal in 2004.
Anthony formally introduced his retirement in 2023.
Initially Printed: April 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM EDT
