Carmelo Anthony Enjoying Knicks Parade
call me a salty mofo but Melo is one of the LAST nba stars I can imagine being happy for another team’s success.
Thats why he look salty as fuck
Lol why did he even come fr
You imagine the melo slander if he didn’t come on this parade? Y’all would crucify him like he is Wemby twin.
Damned if he do and damned if he don’t.
If he was celebrating too hard, people would call him a freerider
Nobody would ask where melo was.
Nah.
Melo is one of the most well known knicks. He’s also known for his inability to bring a chip home even though in his generation he was your favorite player favorite player.
I can bet you plenty people wanted to see if he was going to be salty or not after this win
Lots of well known Knicks ain’t there. 😂
Like?
Raymond Felton
Who the fuck would crucify a retired player who has nothing to do with the Knicks for not going to a parade?
You’d be surprised. People are petty. People have complained about lesser things.
I don’t know why anyone would expect him there, he had nothing to do with this team’s success
Why not? Pretty much every other former Knick out there
When I’m invited to a party and my ex is gonna be there with her new boyfriend, I don’t go because I’d be miserable.
Just kidding, I go and make a scene, but you know what I mean.
Had me in the first half. Lol
Cuz he has always been a jealous mfer. Linsanity was great to NY. He hated that cuz it wasn’t him.
This is a 10 second clip from a several hour event. Like come the fuck on lol. This one clip does not mean he is bitter and hated the entire event. I’m sure he quite enjoyed that during Mamdani’s speech, his line about Melo got the loudest applause of any former Knick mentioned.
He’s beloved in New York, and he loves New York. Sure, he may be reminiscing and wishing he had won it all too. That is perfectly valid to feel.That doesn’t mean he’s mad that this team did.
> He’s beloved in New York, and he loves New York.
This is the part that these lames on this sub don’t get. Melo is and will always be beloved here.
I had my Melo jersey on when I realized this but… when we were down 29, cameras panned across everyone’s sad and depressed face until it got to Melo, who was smiling and eating popcorn like he was enjoying watching the beat down. It actually really hurt my feelings to see it.
Why not? Jesus some of you are bitter af. Let the guy have his fun
Wym? he was at their games cheering them on. Why wouldn’t he come.
Fucking Timothee Chalamet was in the parade and yall have the audacity to question why Melo should be there? Foh
Hey hes invited and part of the culture and change over time. Come on man
Hes from NY lol he’s a Knicks veteran. They probably invited him and he had to say yes to save face
I think yall just make up shit about these dudes when you really dont know shit about them🤣🤣 look you now have people responding to you just running with it.
Literally writing fan fiction lol
This is reddit Melo said something about their white chubby god and now they turn red in the face when they see Melo.
Don’t forget the losers use Jeremy Lin’s name to attack him, even after Lin went out and confirmed that he has no issue with him.
That’s r/nba bro they fucking hate Melo here so they gonna make everything about him negative 🤣🤣
Fr. It gets so weird sometimes. There was a whole post about JR saying Kyrie not showing up to Cavs reunion. Redditors were saying how his ego gets to him. And that is the reason why he’s not there.
Like does it not occur to people that maybe he just doesn’t want to go on a trip? Perhaps it’s a conflicting schedule? Or perhaps he’s just not as close with them anymore to be on a trip with them?
and it was shown that Kyrie was busy doing basketball camps for high school kids
dude cares more about giving back to the basketball community than playing golf with some millionaires
Fr man this shit is melo derangement syndrome 😂
This is a 10 second clip from a 3 hour parade. Drawing conclusions about someone’s feelings from it is very ignorant. You can and should do better.
I thought this dude was being sarcastic. Like what about Carmelo makes you think that? Lol
Also I feel like Melo just looks like that a lot? From what we see of him (on camera) I feel like his default demeanor is usually “cool”.
Ok I thought I was tripping reading a lot of these comments because I don’t remember Melo being super animated about a lot of things even when he’s obviously happy
Jokic erased his presence on the Nuggets
Brunson erased his presence on the Knicks
KD erased his Olympics legacy, and Austin Reaves stole his Olympics jersey number. A murderer in Texas also besmirched his name.
And brain rot Gen Z know melo now as the idiot who named his son LaOne
No I still remember him 🤷
> Brunson erased his presence on the Knicks
Funny cause I heard Mamdani specifically mention Melo and his contributions to the franchise. I also heard the crowd give one of the loudest cheers when he got name dropped. Doesn’t seem like anyone actually forgot him
that’s because all you read are top reddit comments with no nuance
Well then yes, you are one salty mofo that doesn’t know jack about Melo lol. He’s been cheering for these guys and talking to them off the court for a long time.
He’s been a Knicks super fan since he retired. He lives local. His kid is a top recruit, but Melo keeps him in a local high school. He takes his son to Knicks games. Even had him in San Antonio.
But yeah, go ahead and make your own fan fiction about him, I guess.
With a half Yankees half Mets hat? 😂
I have seen his fits in screencaps on here, and he does have every color, remix, flavor of NY themed hat out there.
My guess is after a while , he just got bored of hats in regular team colors.
I need Method Man’s orange WuTang/Mets hat
I’m a Yankees fan and even I need that hat 😂
I never understand why Yankees fans hate the Mets. I literally wouldn’t have ever developed a hatred for the Yankees had it not been for Yankee fans punching down. We know yall have been immensely successful, we just like our team. As a Giants fan, I root for the Jets whenever we arent playing each other. Get the hat and rock it with love in your heart fam.
I chuck it up to sibling rivalry. I really don’t care though, if the Mets/Jets/Nets ever win I’ll go to the parade and get turned up lol
He got tired of blue and orange Knicks/Mets colors and and decided to half of a Yankees logo in white on the blue and orange backsplash?
Guy is wearing a grey sweatshirt that says Knicks Essentials with the NBA logo on it. Just wear an orange Syracuse Orange hat rather than that.
Thank god the fashion police is here to tell him how to dress
He’s rooting for currently one of the best teams in baseball and one of the worst
It is not that deep. He actually has a Baltimore Orioles tattoo.
That big WB Warner bros logo tat on his shoulder is for West Baltimore
I thought it was for Space Jam. TIL.
They’re a mid to worst team
Rude
It’s a hat
now get me an angels/dodgers cap.
Crucify him like elmo
I want both teams to have fun.
-Melo
Melo and Elmo. Same 4 letters. 🤔
Stay E7mo.
I don’t know why I’m this angry about the hat choice, it doesn’t make sense, I’m a grown man with a good job and great kids.
But this mofo’s hat is bringing out the bloodlust.
what if your job was great and your kids were just good
When black people wear hats it’s more for style instead of allegiance but obviously he’s just celebrating New York in general rn
ppl need to understand this. hat culture is its own thing
i wear mets fitteds and dont even watch ball lol but gotta rep my borough
I used to have a whole bunch of different cities/teams hats for outfits and then I was like this is kind of dumb lol. I only rep my city across the different sports now.
If I saw someone wearing a half Rangers half Astros hat that would legit piss me off like wyd
White people’s confusion with the way black people wear hats is always funny
Heresy
When the Knicks traded Carmelo Anthony to the OKC Thunder, Knicks received Enes Kanter, Doug McDermott, and a 2nd round pick. That 2nd rounder turned out to be Mitchell Robinson.
So yall can’t say he didn’t play a part in this championship lol
Played a part in ours too. Last pick of the Melo trade was Jamal lol
So analytically Melo is a two time champion
Great use of the meme, lol.
The Melo ecosystem if you like
Melo’s Draft Tree
Melos Butterfly Effect
fans hate players when they ask out and get you assets back yet also hate players who leave in FA since they don’t get anything back
Well yes because they are leaving so they are not pleased with the players wanting out… idk what’s your point
Played a part in our’s, too. If Masai doesn’t make that robbery of a trade, he’s not hired by the Raptors. Bless to Me7o.
I mean maybe but atp it’s more so luck and on the GM for good drafting skills. He gutted the Knicks to be traded there
Mf seriously wearing a Mets/Yankees fitted lol
He said “I just hope both teamsNew York has a good time”
Rob Lowe needs to come with the NFL/NBA combo fitted.
Jerry West dribbling the Shield
didn’t work for Elmo
Laughs in Elmo
Shoutout to Jeremy Lin for getting a parade in 2019 where he actually got a ring.
The fact that Jeremy Lin has said multiple times that he doesn’t like people constantly bringing him up just to tear down Melo should tell you something. Even Lin noticed that a lot of people only use his name as a weapon against certain players instead of because they actually care about him.
That’s what makes it so frustrating. If you want to criticize Melo, there are plenty of real examples of him being selfish or making bad decisions. You don’t have to reduce Jeremy Lin’s career to a talking point.
The same goes for Kobe. There are serious public issues in his past, like the 2003 case, that deserve discussion. But on this sub, it feels like people only ever bring up Lin because it’s convenient for attacking Melo or Kobe, not because they genuinely appreciate Lin or want to talk about what happened.
This is so well said. Linsanity was the absolute peak of Knick fandom for me between ‘99 and ‘26. I think about it all the time. I don’t think about Melo at all, unless I see him at a game or something. Lin deserves to be remembered for his accomplishments alone.
One more than Mel0
Lmao did he even touch the court in that finals? Imagine Tmac fans bragging about a championship if he won it with the Spurs
Lin got tons of credit for being a leader in the locker room, as well as how hard he worked during practices and scrimmages to help keep the regulars in game shape. Just because he wasn’t logging heavy minutes during games doesn’t mean he contributed nothing.
By your logic, coaches, training staff, and front office employees outside of the GM and President don’t deserve it either?
Show some respect
These people are insane. They hate Melo like he is their opp or something. 😆
He did play in the final minute of game 3.
Jeremy Lin has asked repeatedly not to use him to tear down Melo. He would fucking hate this shit that you morons are doing, stop pretending like you are a fan of his.
Bus rider
Literally
People are so weird about Melo man
once a narrative gets traction on r/nba, its free karma to just repeat it
Jeremy Lin literally said people just use his story as a vehicle to hate on guys like Melo and Kobe with their own twisted version of facts
or how Ben Simmons never referred to himself as a “socialite” but people keep holding that against him like he did
This sub looks at being an iso scorer like it’s a moral failure
ISO gets thrown around like a slur lol
Except iso joe
Praise be his name
The sub hates anyone who dribbles more than 4 times a possession. It’s an anti-bag movement or some shit
Does it? I feel like people only sour on iso players if they seemingly prioritize individual stats over team success. But there are plenty of winning players who also have iso-ing as a big part of their game like SGA, KD, Brunson. Those players get hated on for other reasons obviously, but I don’t think they get criticized in the same way that Melo does. Melo has the reputation of caring mostly about his own stats and not prioritizing getting his teammates involved, not playing off ball, and not playing as hard on defense.
You can argue whether that criticism is warranted or not but I feel like it’s not accurate to say that being an iso heavy player is the main reason people don’t like him or others. If anything Kyrie’s game gets more respect than it deserves cause he’s such an entertaining iso scorer
Reddits full of strange vengeful people who love witch hunts for having opinions instead of doing anything seriously lol
The hate is forced
It was so funny watching Mamdani’s speech yesterday and Melo got the biggest cheer. Just a reminder about how weird this place is
Melo gets treated worse than people accused of crimes.
Can you believe they actually call him racist on this sub?
That thread somehow went from trying to call out Asian hate to becoming incredibly racist toward Black people. One of the highly upvoted comments literally said, “Black people act as if their culture is something that needs to be protected,” and a bunch of the replies were just agreeing with it and nodding along.
They always project
For what?
There’s a bunch of people that say anyone who mistreated Lin was probably racist, and Melo is included in this even though Lin has never said anything negative about him
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Boston flair of course
Least racist Boston fan
Crazy amount of hate directed at a hometown talent celebrating a hometown triumph. Regardless of results he gave the city everything he could
People are either willfully ignoring how the Knicks were screwed with Amar’e Stoudemire’s contract or still think Linsanity would have worked better in NY than it did in Houston, Charlotte, Brooklyn, Lakers … Ect.
This is true. However, linsanity wasn’t really about lin. It was about the knicks being a playoff team with an offense based on less selfish and less iso play and more ball movement.
Management’s and melo’s reaction to that was to feature more iso ball. Melo became the villain by seeming to refuse to develop an off ball game at a time when the knicks needed that from melo.
It was actually because zero teams had scouting reports on Lin, and the very moment they did he became a bench player for the rest of his career.
They won 54 games right after Lin left stfu
Didn’t the Heat shut all of that down by swarming Lin and the passing lanes to force all turnovers which folded the rest of the plans?
Then after it was Daryl Morey throwing Poison pill contracts to force the Knicks out of matching his contract?
its wild that people blame Melo more than Phil Jackson
Phil was sabotaging the Knicks and trying to make them run ancient ass Triangle Offense with terrible coaching hires
the season before Phil Jackson, Melo led the Knicks to 54 wins and #3 offense
On a very old team whose window was closing fast. If anything, I blame Phil for not immediately recognizing that he had to tear it down and sell off whatever few assets he had before they lost all value. JR Smith was probably their second biggest asset after Melo and at the time he could not make it to team meetings on time sober.
I hated the Melo era
Compared to the decade before it was a dream. They made some playoffs, even won a series, at the time that felt like the absolute most that could be possibly hoped for.
Ya after the Isiah Thomas truck party era anything is an improvement lmao
Felt like the Knicks were vibing and we had a breath of fresh air before that trade. Then we gutted the team for mediocrely. Felton was a dog those few months.
One of the last guys that should be involved in this team’s celebrations
He’s a big part of New York. All of New York history up to this point should be celebrated. This was 53 years in the making.
One thing the Knicks did well was respect the players that never won them a ring. I guess when you haven’t won anything in half a century you have to work with what you got.
Half a century? We champs now
It’s always people who never had Melo talking about how bad Melo is huh
He was a Knick for many years!
He actually played for the Knicks funny enough! He was a starter for them for many years and one of the best players for a few of them. Crazy right!
Without him we wouldn’t be shit
I do not understand the ppl saying Melo didn’t win anything he shouldn’t be there. Nobody was saying that about Patrick Ewing when he was holding the trophy and standing next to Brunson at the Garden.
They got Fat Joe and Jadakiss on floats but 6x All Star Melo is where I draw the line.
Freaking Timothée Chalamet got his own float. But a hall of famer and top 75 player OAT is where these nephews get their panties in a bunch
Patrick Ewing is a NY hero.
So is melo
There’s a difference in “didn’t win anything” between a guy with multiple conference finals and a finals appearance (that ended in a game 7) and a guy with one series win. Compared to Ewing, Melo didn’t win anything. Ewing had his best run shut down by Hakeem the fucking Dream Olajuwon. Melo got shut down by Roy Hibbert at the rim
you think Ewing is the only former Knick there?
Marbury was there, Steve Novak, Bernard King, Stoudemire, Herb Williams, Spencer Haywood etc
its funny yall reducing that Pacers team to Roy HIbbert as if Pacers weren’t also pushing the superteam Heatles to 7 games
Are we pretending Paul George wasn’t a monster? He was taking Bron to 7. He’s going to make the Hall. People just hate
Yea nba fans are weird with Paul George. In his prime he was mvp level talent
A bunch of basement dwellin dweebs wit no motion mad that a man all of nyc reveres as a legend is bein celebrated like it. You can’t make ts up lol
Word the hate for this man is unreal. He tried to win his own way. Same as Kobe and MJ. He tried to win as the man. He didn’t succeed at getting a chip so what. He contributed
If it weren’t for Melo, I wouldn’t have started watching the Knicks plain and simple. Winning or not he was one of the best iso scorers in the league and for better or not was my idol for a good while. They can’t make me hate this dude.
And a guy from Redhook at that. These dweebs can fuck right off
Bro does not look happy
That hat should be burnt. It’s Mets or Yankees. Not both.
Its just like if someone supported the knicks and Nets
Kneckts
Its a cultural thing lol black people wear hats for fashion, not team allegiance.
This subreddit is so weird
Social media comments everywhere now are just unhinged and weird. Can’t even blame this sub
Was it just me or did Melo get the biggest applause during mamdani’s speech?
He did. Of all the former players Mamdani mentioned, he got the loudest. Even louder than Lin imo, but of course this sub won’t acknowledge that
They will say the crowd hates east asians
People here live in an echo chamber of idiocy.
Carmelo is always a Knick, dude is the reason why Knicks got Mitchell.
Carmelo Anthony has essentially become the whipping boy of r/nba’s collective lack of social skills or racial awareness
I don’t really get the Melo hate. He always shows up to support his teammates or former teams
Stolen valor.
Just like me fr
He doesn’t go to the parade he’s selfish, never cared about the culture. He goes to the parade he’s not smiling, not celebrating. Cant win
I genuinely am concerned about how many people here function in society. Parasocial hatred, using another person’s name as a weapon to attack and attributing negative attributes to someone because you don’t like how he plays basketball. It’s deeply disturbing.
Having players from previous teams who never won seems really weird
They are honoring their past while celebrating the present it’s not weird at all.
Well tbf he’s a New Yorker born and bred, went to Syracuse, grew up a massive Knicks fan. He deserves to be there more than almost anybody (like as much as I love Jeremy Lin he was there for half a season and is from California), but I think he’s too self-centered to fully appreciate the moment
You know what’s weird is that Lin picked the Spurs to win and yet people still try to act like he’s more of a Knick than Melo
The Trail Blazers and Rockets should be hopeful for the near future. All of the teams he played for have won a ring this decade except those two teams.
A true New Yorka
Sliding in on those coattails
Stolen valour
Just realized that both the Nuggets and the Knicks won titles after he retired lol.
What the fuck did he win?
Tons of past Knicks were there, and at all the Finals games. Seeing generations of Knicks all come together with this team has been one of the coolest parts of this run.
*Lakers Legend Carmelo Anthony
Take off that silly ass hat
I’m kinda out of the loop, what’s the drama with melo?
NBA subreddit hates him because they think he fucked over Jeremy Lin and even when Lin says they’re cool they ignore it so they can hate him even more.
People have legit called him racist to Lin on here.
No man you don’t understand Lin was a superstar and the only reason he didn’t become one was because of Melo and Kobe. Comments in this thread are parasocial as fuck. Weirdos on here are really something else.
basically people who only read top r/nba comments formed their entire opinion on melo “running” Jermey Lin out of New York, when that’s not what happened.
now anytime Melo is brought up, a bunch of haters come out bashing him.
Literally nothing, he made a stupid comment about jokic ‘taking’ his jersey number a few years ago, and people (stupidly) blame him for Lin not becoming a superstar, so now hes reddit’s #1 enemy.
all the melo hate are never from knicks fans, it’s just people tryna speak for knicks fans
Oh there’s a contingent of losers in our fanbase that don’t like him too. Only on reddit though, they get uncomfortable in public spaces.
That is kinda a weird hat.
Lt. Dan lookin MF
This is like being at your ex gf birth of her child with the guy she got with after you
The way Melo is targeted here blows my mind - bro was smiling and having fun all yesterday but this clip is posted
Realizing what he could’ve had if he just sacrificed a little.