Jeremy Lin on being invited by Carmelo Anthony to appear on his podcast: “My desire is still kinda the same. I would love to have a private conversation before having a public recorded conversation.”
Carmelo wants a topic for his podcast, Lin wants a sincere conversation. Two different priorities for two very different people.
Very telling isn’t it?
Extremely telling that Melo hasn’t managed to have a sincere conversation with Lin about all this. It’s been 15 years
There is clearly no base level of respect coming from Melo.
“Come on my pod for views and clicks. I’ll be surrounded by my crew as we ambush you.”
I think Lin gets on the Jumbotron Game 3 he’s gonna get cheers only surpassed by Brunson and co.
I hope so. I’m waiting for a wwe style pop bc the president is gonna be there and he’s already fkn up the vibe being there and all the measures being implemented
What are the chances of King Cheeto getting booed off the building? Considering it’s NY and all.
If the prices werent absolutely ridiculous, we’ve seen what the reactions at baseball and football games are, but the booing folks might be priced out for an upper class profile, like the superbowl gets.
Yeah, there’s plenty of rich Trump voting assholes in NYC that are willing to buy the absurd prices that I don’t think it’s gonna be the resounding boos people think it’s gonna be.
Edit: Would love to be proven wrong NYC.
Rich people in New York hate him, it is quite literally why he has done the things he has
I’m in DC and it’s the same thing, most rich people hate him for what he’s done to the area and specifically the local economy. We’ll see, though.
I was at Billy’s Sports Bar during a Yankee playoff game during the last election and a Trump commercial came on and the place went nuts. My brother and I looked at each other like where tf are we? I knew he was going to win again in that moment. Idk if Trump will get booed as hard as we think there, but also that was prior to the war so maybe that shifted some of his younger supporters
Tbf 75% of people at Billy’s are long islanders
That Linsanity run was more special to NY than Melo’s entire Knicks tenure.
Never wanted to win. Just wanted the bag and highlights.
Was there for it all. Knick fan of 4 decades, long time nyc head and resident, and can confirm, Linsanity was the peak of franchise vibes post millennium up until this current squad. Melo’s entire expanse of tenure within the same window, on the other hand, would represent the nadir and biggest blight within it all. Literally the most soul-draining period of fandom having to endure his presence.
hard to say what the g3/4 crowd will be like with how pricy the tix are
With Mamdani as mayor, how is there anyone remaining in the city to afford those tickets? /s
Well, they were only coworkers for one season.
They were colleagues for a decade and during that one season together some noteworthy shit happened. Downplaying it like this is intellectually dishonest.
I wouldn’t call people you see like 2 times a year colleagues. Exaggerating it like this is intellectually dishonest.
Colleague: Fellow member of a profession, staff, or academic faculty; an associate.
Idk I’ve heard my mom refer to people she’s never met as her colleagues because they work at the same school. Seems perfectly reasonable to NBA players as colleagues. I think you guys are confusing it with coworker which would be only the players on the same team.
I disagree. Nba players talk all the time about how it is a brotherhood and a small select group and how only a small x amount of people in the world can be an NBA player on a roster. I’d say they view it as closer than just a colleague although obviously not every player to every other player.
They were colleagues for a decade
All players in the NBA are “colleagues” to one another?
they’re in the same union so yes. colleague can mean a coworker in a narrower sense, but is more often used to mean a professional in the same field.
Obviously
One of the colleagues took every opportunity to level his co-worker. Melo took some dirty fuckin shots at Lin.
Destinies intertwined and all that sht
just imagine if they did 15 years ago the chemistry probably would’ve been much better and as a result of better team
What team are we talking about? Lin’s hot streak came when Melo was out and we were desperate. Lin got injured after Melo came back. They played about 20 games together total. Houston gave him the poison pill deal that summer and he was gone.
Yeah, faq melo
Another reason why as a Knicks fan, melo has always rubbed me the wrong way. Amare came here to win, melo came here for the stardom
Lin is a good person. Melo is an egotistical idiot.
What is it about reddit that we always have to speak with such extremes.
Granted, but I feel like I’ve been hearing idiotic things coming out of Melo’s mouth his whole career and post-career.
Like, when you pass a certain tipping point of notoriety, that’s often how your reputation turns out, fair or unfair.
Good and egotistical idiot are not extremes. There are a plethora of things more extreme than both.
From what I’ve seen of him that’s not unfair to Carmelo
Melos done some good for impoverished communities in Puerto Rico and around the U.S. but he’s no Harvard grad if we’re being honest .
Doing good for impoverished communities has more merit than just being a Harvard grad
The amount of evil Harvard grads have done….
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns”
Exactly. And half of these motherfuckers think they know both Carmelo and Jeremy on personal terms when they don’t know shit. They swear Lin is a saint and Anthony is the devil.
Hold up. What does one have to do with the other, and what do college credentials have anything to do with his merit as a person?
They said Lin is a good person and that Melo is dumb . Implying Lin is good because he’s smart and Melo is bad because he’s dumb
It’s basically the Asian model minority and the ignorant thug tropes, just in peak reddit format
These are two unrelated topics.
Bill Gates and several other figures have supposedly done tons of “donations”,
yet he and others were on Epstein Island.
Idgaf about any celebrities doing “donations” it’s all for show.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but I think there’s more space on the good evil scale besides Jeremy Lin and bill gates . Also someone can mean well and 100% do or say the wrong thing
take your nuanced, well-reasoned take and shove it Mr. New York City!
Nah Gates’ charity is top notch including his lobbying of the rich to also give. That wasn’t just a few show projects.
It’s almost like people are complex beings and “all good” and “all bad” is too broad a paintbrush to draw a person’s humanity.
“He rapes but he saves” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_busSo7N45E&pp=ygUVSGUgcmFwZXMgYnV0IGhlIHNhdmVz&ra=m
What does other people being involved with Epstein have to do with Carmelo?
Instructions unclear. Epstein was left on an island with Melo. And you know what happens when you’re left on an island with Melo. Hand down. Man down. Mama, there goes that man.
I think Melo is also a good person but nothing you said is wrong. You can be egotistical and an idiot and still be a decent dude.
You’re an idiot who has no idea how good a person Lin is. Or Melo to be honest
oh wow…how long have you known both of them personally for?
And every Melo stan insists they love each other and any beef is a media invention
Which makes Lin wanting that private convo make even more sense, they need to be on the same page.
I got downvoted to hell saying that Lin didn’t want to go and have this conversation on Melo’s podcast.
Meanwhile the Melo fanboys are either saying “this is all fabricated there’s no issue here” or “if Lin was a man about it he’d come on the podcast and talk”. Just nonsense
Carmelo wants a topic for his podcast,
nah carmelo wants to revise and whitewash linsanity era like he wasn’t being a hater cause he knows lin’s gonna take the high road and not throw melo under the bus publicly. shit’s some bully tactic like making your little brother say you didn’t hit him in front of your mom.
I don’t think we personally know either of these men well enough to say how similar or different they might be. For all we know it was always Carmelo’s intention to speak with Lin privately in advance of the podcast.
Of course we don’t know them personally but Carmelo has been in the public eye for like 20 years and we have plenty of data points.
I still maintain that people paint Melo to be a much bigger villain than he is. And I’m not the biggest Melo guy
I just think he’s got a history of being very self centered and selfish from a basketball standpoint. Lin of course is a part of that. Forcing the Denver trade to his new teams detriment. Not wanting to come off the bench in OKC. Focusing on getting his numbers instead of team ball, etc etc etc.
Ayy P they say I gotta come off the bench
Melo literally claimed the Nuggets drafted a 2nd rounder with his jersey number to avoid retiring his jersey
No, we know it wasn’t. Melo said on his podcast that Lin should come on his podcast to discuss everything.
If that was his true intention, he would reach out… privately to Lin before bringing it up on his podcast.
It’s not a huge deal but it’s clear Melo wants to do it for his podcast views which is the whole point here.
This is so wildly reasonable. “Hey, instead on sensationalizing something that wildly changed my life and the trajectory of one of the most important franchises in sports, I’d love to talk about it like real humans”. Shit is wild that that’s not “normal” anymore. Bad, bad look for Melo
Which is completely warranted. Having that one-on-one genuine conversation is more important than what will at least be partially sanitized on-air.
Melo screwed Lin. We all know it. He wanted Lin to play but when Lin got successful melo got jealous and ran him out
There’s more to it based on team context. We were hobbled at the time.
Melo was injured, so we were expected to be losing most if not every game without him.
Knicks were also desperate for any point guard — resorting to Lin was a last resort option. Baron Davis and Shumpert were injured. Mike Bibby and Toney Douglas themselves were at that time bench level ball handlers. Douglas actually started the first Linsanity game and was struggling bad.
D’Antoni system needs a PG. Lin is no Nash, but in practice he’d shown enough willingness to buy into a system so the team plays better as a whole.
Then we start winning. These bench players and past prime vets are beating the Lakers on national TV.
Melo comes back. We start moving away from Lin handling the system to Melo needing the ball to get his stats. Lots of slow iso ball. We start losing again. D’Antoni loses the clubhouse and resigns. He now maintains the clubhouse wanted to go back to Lin handling. We hire Mr Potato Head, Mike Woodson.
Lin may not have kept this up at this level of excellence, but he never got a chance to learn to beat pressure. The Heat (of course prime LeBron) basically wrote the playbook to stop him by trapping in every pick and roll, forced him left, caused early turnovers. Then Lin had season ending surgery two weeks later.
Idk if truly that “Melo ran him out” but they never really got a chance to figure it out. I don’t think Melo is blameless in this — as a pro baller he should’ve been team first.
Lot of what ifs. Cool that we lived to see it.
Well broken down. Melo probably among the least team first superstars in the 21st century
starbury and sprewell come to mind. knicks really have a thing for iso guys
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Melo is interesting to me because in terms of universes, the one he ended up in was probably among the least expected after he won a championship with Syracuse.
I.e., you would’ve thought he’d have had more team success in pros, but instead, he ends up kind of disliked by both the fan bases he played for majority of his career
I still want to know what Pistons drafting Melo looks like. Could be 2-3 straight titles or Melo getting dealt in a Dantley 2.0 style deal.
Would have been SO interesting. Have to think they’d keep him and maybe move on from Sheed after 2005
Are there Knicks fans who dislike Melo? That is news to me.
Yeah I feel like it’s an age split. As an older fan who had been watching trash ass basketball for quite a long time I hated him for ruining our biggest hope. The build up to that free agency year was huge and we had double max available. It was going to be our saving grace etc.
Melo instantly killed that hype when he essentially demanded a sign and trade. Putting us down a bunch of young players and other assets instead of just signing in the off season. Obviously he also wasn’t the coveted prize of LeBron, Wade or CP3 either and it was made worse when the Heatles made compromises to not gut the Heat etc.
Dolan masterclass to force them to accept that trade. I still believe it was a bluff and he would have signed with them in the off season anyway.
You’re forgetting a key piece of this story. Under Woodson, Lin and Melo lose maybe one game. The truth is they played great together once D’Antoni was out of the picture.
You’re right, it’s also not clear in my recap that all of this happened in like 6 weeks.
Lin got surgery end of March. I remember the VaLintine’s Day special at Toronto with the game winning three at top of the key over Jose Calderon.
Crazy emotional ride
As a lifelong Knicks fan back to McAdoo I dislike Anthony for a host of reasons and have no fond memories of him as a Knick.
What causes the Knicks not to re-sign Lin was Houston offering Lin a contract that would give him money that was around what Kevin Durant was making. The Knicks decided not to match it after telling him they’d match any contract
Tired of people just saying what you said above while avoiding the actual reason why he left
That’s not the full story though. Instead of giving him an offer, they told him to test the market and they’ll match whatever the market decides. He probably would’ve taken less if they had just made an offer.
Seems generally safe to trust the narrative in which Dolan is sabotaging professional relationships to his own detriment.
This. If people want a villain in this story, it’s Dolan who lied when he said he would match any offer Lin got
Yeah. That is basically saying “we think you will be upset with the low-ball we offer you so go see that you ain’t worth shit.” Then he actually got an offer that was above what they though he was worth and they decided to back out of the deal. Pure scumbag behavior from the front office.
When in doubt, you can probably blame Dolan for any individual situation with the Knicks and not be too far off the mark.
Am i crazy too cause he never reached the heights or any where near Linsanity again. I loved Lin , had a poster of him on my wall as a kid. His career outside of that stretch is nothing special. The Knicks win nothing with a Lin/Melo combo anyways.
Bro the Knicks ended up winning 54 games the next year, people like to pretend that letting Lin leave was a disastrous move. He was a role player that had a good stretch of games.
To be fair Lin would’ve been a great 6th man . I don’t think he was starting over shumpert and his playstyle would mean he’d be sliding in if they went small to give Melo a rest and playing off of jr smith. Although a starting 5 of Lin shump Melo stat and chandler probably would’ve been better than with Felton starting
This is the thing that people like to ignore. They literally won 54 games without Lin and with Melo as the lead. Melo was so good that season he was literally taking MVP votes away from prime LBJ. Not signing Lin to that contract allowed them to sign someone like J Kidd who was the 3rd most important player on that team
lol and tell us what happened after that 54-win season? Literally never over .500 again in the Melo era.
Lin wouldn’t have gotten them a ring but are you really saying they wouldn’t be better with Lin? That roster was already thin as shit after trading all their youth for Melo. All they could sign were dudes in their late 30s playing their last seasons. They were so desperate they traded for Bargnani lol.
Like fine Lin didn’t become an all star but we really gotta stop pretend letting a 23 y/o walk away for nothing was a good move.
That’s leaving out what happened to the Knicks roster that next season. Amare was just coming off knee surgery and was a shadow of his former self. They traded 3 bench players for Andrea Bargnani who missed the 2nd half of the season. Jason Kidd retired.
Would Lin have made the roster better? Yeah, absolutely. But the Knicks were fucked either way because there’s no coming back from having 2 of your top 3 players completely lose their athleticism.
That’s the thing that kills me the most. People here act like Lin was an MVP level player that Melo just magically derailed. Lin was good for 2 weeks until Miami showed everyone that he couldn’t go left and couldn’t shoot foreal and he came back down to Earth
Lin was never better than Melo and it’s annoying for people to act like a top 75 guaranteed HOFer was in the way of a flash in the pan role player. If Lin were what people here think he was then he would have shown it elsewhere. Why does no one blame Harden or Dwight for him not being good in Houston?
If we’re being 100 about it, if Lin was Tra’Davion Johnson from East St. Louis, Illinois instead of an Asian dude that went to Harvard, no one would care about this. He’s an explosive, fun, quick guard that plays 0 defense. He was on an incredible heater for two weeks and it’s a shame injuries took away his main skillset so quickly, but he was never going to lead an NBA team or be someone you build around in lieu of Carmelo fucking Anthony, ffs.
Imagine if 15 years from now we’re having this conversation about Pat Spencer. “Remember when Steve Kerr said Pat Spencer was that motherfucker? Why wouldn’t Steph give the team over to him?”
it’s annoying for people to act like a top 75 guaranteed HOFer was in the way of a flash in the pan role player
Linsanity was very much a product of Lin playing extremely well in Mike D’Antoni’s extremely point guard friendly system. The same system that vaulted Steve Nash from being a two-time All-Star before hitting 30 years old to be being a two-time MVP after 30. Unfortunately, Melo was injured for much of Linsanity, and shortly after he returned from injury the team took a nosedive and went on a 6 game losing streak, which culminated in D’Antoni resigning from the team mid-season on March 12, a little over a month after the start of Linsanity on Feb 4. There was clearly a lot of tension behind the scenes over how the team should be playing, and Melo won the power struggle.
Houston may have had designs to use Lin similarly to how D’Antoni did, but a few months after signing him in the 2012 offseason, they traded for James Harden. Obviously they gave Harden the ball and Lin’s role became marginalized on the team. They had him spotting up in the corner a fair bit if I remember correctly, which is a real waste of Lin’s game.
He wasn’t given a big role on a team again until he went to the Nets in 2017, where his per-36 numbers were similar to what he put up years ago for the Knicks at 21-8-6. But he was wracked by injuries at this point in his career and only played 36 games, and only 1 game the following season. He played one final season in 2019 but was basically toasted by that point.
He was ready to break out that one yr and then the catastrophic injury. It really was a sort of tragic career
Of course not, Lin was a good player but he was very athleticism dependent and was injured constantly afterwards. Would have been a bad contract.
Lin was very athleticism dependent. He got beat up quite a bit post Knicks and tore his acl so that affected his career.
My opinion is the hard fouls were rooted in some jealousy and racism because some players felt that lin’s contract was due to his race. I don’t think that’s true, but even if it was that’s ironic because his lack of offers coming out of high school was because he was Asian.
https://youtu.be/KvaM0pMj-8o
In what world was 3 year \(25m what kd was making? KD was making \)17m a year at that time
chatgpt told him that it was kd money
No, the last year of the contract was 15 million dollars. I remember I was in high school hearing about that on ESPN and thought it was ridiculous
Exactly. At the time they called it a poison pill contract iirc
I remember Carmelo referring to the Rocket’s offer of 3 year $25M to Lin as a “ridiculous contract” out of nowhere. Why would Melo even say that? Just seems like a childish behavior stemmed from saltiness.
It wasn’t out of nowhere. A reporter asked him and the whole team about the contract. All of them said it was ridiculous. The reporter at the time even clarified that Melo was frustrated with the poison pill nature of it.
Because it came with a poison pill which is what he was referencing
Because the poison pill was ridiculous
Melo being a shit teammate in no way contributed to lins choice /s
That comment about Melo running Lin out of New York go 225 upvotes lmao. People hear stuff like that on a podcast and run with it as fact.
Houston gave him a poison pill contract basically. So it’s not Melo’s fault he left. Was Melo jealous of him? Probably
Lin was injured in the playoffs and didn’t want to risk coming back and messing up his new contract. The new contract was a poison pill which basically meant he pushed himself out. And he said that himself.
Melo invented the Luxury Tax to disuade the Knicks from paying an extra 20m+ in the third year of the contract they’d have to match for an ok starter? Lin stans still beefing with reality over a decade later.
Karma worked it out in the end. Lin got a ring and Melo didn’t .
Not only sanitized but also in a hostile environment where he’s surrounded by sycophantic cronies.
Jeremy Lin comes off as like the lone adult in a universe of manbabies and mean girls
Most athletes are just straight up dumb for sure lol
Like Gilbert arenas who doesn’t know the difference between a city and a state.
you have me curious, because there are 4 teams in California. i wonder how he would respond to that.
But maybe there’s a city called Golden State
I don’t think you understand this, like two cities in the same state. How is that even possible?
24 hour news cycle + social media gives these dudes every chance to remind us how dumb they are.
and brought a gun into the locker room
Lin is just legitimately very smart and half of the league probably didn’t deserve to graduate high-school.
People he played with never had an asian american coworker before.
He’s a Harvard grad in a career where many of his coworkers enter right out of high school, which I’m sure was often not well received.
you have to realize most of these other guys dodnt take school seriously. since middle school.
What graduated from Harvard did to the dude
“yeah bro come on my show with my boys and tell everyone I’m not a bad guy”
He wants to bully him to improve his reputation.
Obvious to everyone who doesn’t worship the guy
I honestly don’t know why anyone worships him even as a nuggets fan. He was a pretty elite iso scorer which at the time was kinda the style other than the spurs and even the lakers ran triangle offense with kobe (guess which teams were winning). But he never played winning basketball. Just basketball for his stats.
Melo is the only one that stands to gain from a public conversation. There are no positives from JLin’s side.
Honestly, just asking JLin to come on publicly is a bad look for Melo.
Yup and on their show they can control the narratives and spin it in a way where Jeremy feels he has to answer a certain way.
They can also edit it or just choose not to air it, if it doesn’t fit the PR stunt they’re aiming for
I don’t mind Melo but he’s way too invested in trying to adjudicate and rewrite his legacy at this point, it is what it is man just accept it. Like your peers TMac and Vince…
It’s political it’s not authentic although I’m sure he believes it
I think Vince is way more zen than the others lol
I mean it took a while for him to get to that “zen” state. He’s also done a good job of rewriting history because everyone always talks about how he created the culture/changed basketball in Toronto but they forget he literally quit on them in the playoffs and then was a diva afterwards (ex.never dunking again).
Toronto doesn’t forget
Which is so dumb. Dude should have been glad about a second potential star. He clearly needed help on the court.
It’s well known that Melo chose to get paid over winning. He should be totally okay with his legacy of signing massive contracts.
Was he paid more than the his contemporaries?
At the time yes. He was the highest paid player next to Kobe for a good while, but when contracts exploded his production declined. Brutal timing. IMAGINE if he was in this era he would’ve gotten Beal’s contract twice
Vince literally spent a decade plus trying to rewrite his legacy
Ya I’m fine with Vince now as a Raps fan and enjoyed all the jersey stuff/mural downtown but it was a bunch of eye-roll moments when he kept talking in the weeks leading up to his jersey retirement that it was a time to put the past behind us together and celebrate the good times. Like buddy that’s just celebrating you!
Didn’t Tmac try to “what if” his post season career if he had Shaq?
I remember some hilarious puff-piece article in a big outlet (GQ? NYT?) about how Carmelo Anthony was like this awesome businessman, creative entrepreneur type that was just looking for a business still. Like…so he’s not a businessman? I’ve never been able to look at him the same.
Yeah the mogul piece. Not a great one.
I remember that article, wasn’t there a picture of him smoking a cigar.
Tmac isn’t accepting shit though, he sits there and bitches anytime he can about the new generation and blah blah blah
they havent had a private conversation for all these years and the first time reaching out is on a podcast? Right when Jeremy Lin’s name is back in NBA circles?
He has a segment on his podcast where he asks the current guest who he should have on and Lin was mentioned
I get it. And I know that it came up when Steve Novak was a guest, and Novak made really good points. But for years it has been out there in NBA discourse and even shared by teammates that they had on the Knicks
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lu1XujF7_yo
That Melo was hating on Lin. Which I don’t even necessarily blame Melo for, he was competing with the Heat in the East and wanted to establish a legacy in New York. I get that.
But Melo has had years to share his feelings on the Linsanity situation, to dispel rumors that he got jealous that a no name guard took over the spotlight. And he has not to my knowledge.
I also know that Linsanity died the moment the Heat trapped Lin and exposed his lack of a left hand. Linsanity was always going to be a limited run. Melo hating (allegedly) did not end Linsanity but it did (allegedly) show that Melo only wanted to win if he was the star.
Is that surprising? When would they ever talk?
And Lin’s content started getting some traction and suddenly Melo wants to cash in for extra exposure and “good guy points” by bringing him on his podcast.
Mike Jones said it best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ERvlxgCD8&list=RDm1ERvlxgCD8&start_radio=1
Melo trying to cash in on Linsanity after all these years lmao
All these years and they never talked about it but he’s inviting him on a podcast to talk about it for the first time?
Yea nah that sounds weird.
Melo gonna try and trap him into some narrative lol
Draymond to KD and Poole in 10 years lol
Draymond already did it. You can tell KD wasnt exactly 100% fucking with him when they spoke on it on some pod.
Melos just trying to use his ass for clicks
He has had multiple teammates from the knickstape era on his pod. This is somebody that people want to hear from.
The entire point of a podcast is to get clicks
This is more than just a former teammate. There’s a lot of suspected uncovered beef between the two that people who aren’t even knicks fans have legitimate interest in hearing about.
I don’t care to watch any Melo podcasts with any former teammates, but I would look for a podcast of him talking to Lin.
The thing that annoyed me the most about Lin’s career wasn’t Melo. It was the fact that he finally found his stride again on the Nets and was the leading favorite for 6MOTY… and then has a basically career ending injury. He could have closed his career out as a high value 6man
I’m not trying to be a jerk but you’re not giving valid information. He was never ever in the running nor was the leading favorite for 6th man in Brooklyn. He started 33⁄36 games in 2017 with Brooklyn and played 1 game in 2018 and he started that game. It’s kinda concerning people are upvoting this clearly wrong comment like it’s fact.
He got to close his nba career with a ring, though.
There’s still an issue or issues that Jeremy needs to address and clear up so all is not “cool” between him and Melo. Melo attempts to downplay their situation which is evident and comes off disingenuous. The fact that other teammates tend to glance over the Linsanity period shows that they never held him accountable then and as the years have gone by. Hold the “star” accountable on his part of the friction. I never understood how he doesn’t get the public backlash for his selfish tendencies unlike other stars?!
because lin is asian and most people don’t give a damn
Smart man
The fact that Melo after all these years never reached out to him for a private conversation is kinda crazy
Lin always such reasonable responses
I don’t blame Jeremy one bit.
Yup
Gotta discuss it man to man in private
Melo is trying to control the narrative and ambush him in a public recorded setting where he gets to prepare and control the conversation
Not cool
I’m glad Lin got to get a ring on the Raptors
If he goes on the podcast i hope he rocks up wearing the ring
Obligated to post this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqjm1WZbPxQ&pp=ygUSTWVsbyB1cHBlcmN1dHMgbGlu
Ignore his ass if he’s not willing to talk in private first. Carmelos whole career has showed hes a selfish asshole. Why would he change now?
I thought they at least chopped it up in private Melo what are you doing lol
I think it’s warranted, better to have have the conversation one of one instead of doing it on air
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I respect this so much
Fuck melo
There’s no winning in this situation for Jeremy. If he goes on the pod and says Melo was against him and hated sharing the spotlight, Melo is obviously gonna deny/downplay it, and it’ll start a huge social media war that Jeremy doesn’t want any part of. If he goes on there, says the whole situation was overblown and basically kills the issue, then nothing really changes. The people who believe it was a toxic situation will say Jeremy is just saying the right things trying to avoid issues, and keep believing what they want to believe. It’s been so long that the narrative kind of is what it is at this point.
Fk melo. Lin don’t need to explain sht. Everyone knows what happened.
Melo just wants to use Lin for views, he doesn’t wanna squash any beef or admit any faults on his end; Lin is smart enough to see thru the invitation.
This puts an end to the idiots on r/NBA saying melo always supported lin and didn’t run him off. Y’all know who you are.
It’s a shame. Lin would have had a really good career running d’antoni’s system. Knicks would have done better -melo and +lin running that system too.
Linsanity was a flash in the pan. Melo did right. That 15 minutes was up.
100+ comments of dweeb ass redditors arguing back and forth about what is or isn’t a colleague…my god this place just gets worse and worse.
Lin did not bite with this guy trying to probe the situation, absolute class from him. No matter what is said in public, he knows whats up and wants to handle it like an adult.
J-Lin is the NBA ambassador we need, but not the one we deserve
Jeremy Lin is probably the most bullied player in history. All because he is Asian.
That whole era of superstars hating on Jeremy Lin was disgusting to watch.
Fair
I thought it was opportunistic when Melo put an invitation out to Lin. He wants to monetize, grow his podcast and have a chance to re-write history (which is Melo’s clear the air comment).
Lin sees through it and has a perfect response here. Ball is in Melo’s court.
How dare Lin want to behave as a normal human being lol
The only thing to stop Linsanity was Melo’s ball hogging.
Put Melo on the Jumbotron and then Jeremy Lin next. Would be interesting to see who gets the louder/bigger reaction
Melo is a clown
I don’t know why everybody is always trying to act like they know what happened behind the scenes when they weren’t there. I hope they do have the conversation because I want to know.
I’ve seen people blame Melo for why Jeremy Lin didn’t have linsanity 2 in Houston. I’m gonna reserve judgment until I hear them speak about it
Melo, when explicitly asked, literally just named a few people he’d like to have on the podcast some day. It’s not that dramatic. Both these guys have each other’s numbers, Lin can text Melo right now and have that private conversation if they care to.
Carmelo is such a dam clown
melo should ask lin to call him, he’ll finally get a ring XD