Knicks legend Carmelo Anthony at the Knicks parade: “I like to say we all won. The whole city won. Every player who ever came through here, like, this was the buildup for this moment.”
whatever helps you sleep at night melo
He’s actually a back to back champion because he helped the the Thunder win theirs by playing there years ago
Damn, and the Nuggets ring a couple years ago. People ain’t ready to talk about the Melo Dynasty.
3-time analytical champion
3 teams 3 analytical finals mvp awards.
Just need Houston to come through and there won’t be much debate
All a franchise needs to do is bring in Melo and then release him and wait a few years - bang, championship incoming
Even Jordan didnt win 4 championships in 6 years. It might be time to start discussing if Melo is the GOAT if Houston wins it next season.
He just like Lebron, 3 championships in 3 different franchise
these last 5 years were melo‘s
Does he get one for Denver too?
🤣🤣
Don’t forget the real MVP of the Olympics
Melo: from NYC, played for the Knicks, lives in nyc, celebrates first championship in half a century
you: fuck you melo, you didn’t do shit to deserve celebrating
are you okay bro?
Right?? People are so miserable
Agreed. I think he is being genuine here. I think he actually is happy for the place he grew up in. And team he probably rooted for most his life. It’s no different than any other past Knick celebrating the teams accomplishments.
I just hate it with Reddit how on all the big subs, the top comments are some snarky unbearable shit. Get over yourselves and enjoy what you can in life ffs.
Right? These comments are so appalling. Sometimes I forget that redditors are literally the biggest losers ever and then threads like this one appear to remind me again.
And is wearing a dual Mets/Yankees cap lol
Wait what? Ewing said essentially the same thing though.
I know, I know, melo is selfish and Ewing>melo but come on.
Mamdani said the same thing in his speech to.
I read r/nba so I kind of won, too
I think Ewing has a role in the Knicks Atleast currently
I agree with the sentiment that this victory feels like a victory for all former Knicks given how starved they were.
Melo obviously played no role in achieving it.
Theres a million things to dog melo for but this isn’t it.
What do you mean Melo played no role in achieving it?
If it wasn’t for Melo this chip doesn’t happen.
Kind of?
Melo is a New Yorker that took the leap into NY when the mentality around the league was Dolan is messing with the team too much.
The way Melo had to carry Stoudemire’s missed games and cap space and be traded for not much ( at least there was the Pick that gave Mitchell Robinson). Lead to KD passing on the Knicks and choosing the Nets. This inturn put more pressure on Dolan to be hands off this time and the rest is history.
Ay man I’m with you I’m from nyc and a melo fan I completely agree with the sentiment. Just wanted to point out the difference with him and Ewing.
Yall hating. He said it as a new yorker not as a player.
he said both but i dont see the problem. if your team ever won a chip you understand, you feel like a lot of the players who played there over the years played a role in someday of a butterfly effect type of way
People just wanna clown melo. I had a lot of problems with his game/attitude with the Knicks, but he embraced the city and brought some shine back to the Knicks.
He’s absolutely a part of this championship.
He was born in Brooklyn.
IIRC Melo got traded for the pick that Gave them Mitchell Robinson.
I would add that it’s Melo’s wasted tenure carrying Stoudemire’s cap space and Phil Jackson’s wasted Triangle offense that finally made the fans turn on Dolan to make him be hands off this time.
During the lakers 30 for 30 one of the older players from the 60-70s teams talked about how excited he was when the lakers finally beat the Celtics in the finals. He went and put his old laker jersey on he was that excited lol
This is literally what mamdani said in his speech and everyone loved that.
The rush to get jokes off does not care about logic unfortunately
And in the 5 second clip of him not jumping up and down with glee at the parade, the comments were saying he should be happier for the team and city and everyone else. Now he says he is and they shit on that too.
This sub is just incapable of using a singular brain cell about anything involving Melo for some reason. It is strange af too because he never even said or did anything super egregious to get this hate.
How is this any different from Ewing and Starks? Reddits hate for Melo has always been weird
How dare a former player and a fan of the team express his thoughts. Multiple other players said the same thing btw
You guys are so fucking miserable omg
I don’t know if he deserves to be on the parade, but i agree that this championship is for all the players who played for us, trying to win with us. i always appreciate melo
Andre fucking Roberson was in the parade. He never even played here. Melo perfectly fine.
Stfu. If Ewing said this you wouldn’t say shit.
What’s wrong with what he said? Lmao y’all are so inconsistent when it’s somebody you are told you’re supposed to hate.
This is the same thing everybody involved with the Knicks has been saying the whole Brunson era but you already know what direction this thread is heading.
Ewing says “it feels good to finally get one” and everyone loves it. Melo says the same thing and people go feral
Said the exact same thing 😂 boys needa get that hate out their heart
I swear these people are still fuming he got into the HoF lol
Which is hysterical because he was such an obvious lock it’s insane. Almost a top 10 scorer all time. Such a bizarre reaction he gets
Not to mention its the BASKETBALL HOF. His college + Olympic career alone would have gotten him in.
I still have arguments with people about how we traded Timofey Mosgov and Wilson Chandler “Gutting the team” for Melo.
Melo is not a perfect player but in a different timeline Amare doesn’t punch that fire extinguisher and we see how that series plays out.
In a different timeline Me7o toughs it out for 2 more months in Denver, gets booted out of the playoffs in thr first round, has a wonderful 3 month vacation then signs with NYK in free agency.
You still get Me7o and Amar’e, and retain Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Timofey Mozgov, and multiple draft picks as potential capital.
That’s kinda hindsight though. The lockout was looming and Melo didn’t want to risk being a free agent during that time. He already wouldn’t have Bird Rights plus it wasn’t known exactly what the terms of the new CBA would bring.
I get that he had to get the bag and it was uncertain if that kind of bag could ever be gotten again, but the Knicks lost a game of chicken to a guy who was like “either you trade for me right now or I’m going to Jersey in FA” and let Denver fleece them.
I’m glad he got his bag but sad he lost out on a fairly “easy” Rushmore spot in New York. That is a clear difference between Carmelos “I got mine” and “I got us” that Brunson operates on.
how do people still get this wrong in 2026
denver wanted to rebuild and so carmelo asked for a trade which was accepted. There were no demands or anything. Dolan was scared of Carmelo going elsewhere so he traded for him to lock him down.
He was never making the mount rushmore in New York because Phil Jackson was trying to implement the triangle and made many dogshit GM moves trying to build a team around him. He was an awful GM and ruined their chance, let alone Amar’e being the highest paid player at times and playing 10 games a season. They were hamstrung by his deal as well.
NONE OF THAT CHANGES if he doesn’t get traded. The roster around him was still going to be ass.
The knicks traded a single first round draft pick. and that team that you just outlined has zero cap space.
Do you think Felton - Wilson Chandler - Carmelo - Gallinari - Stoudemire with Shumpert off the bench is better than the next season?
Baron Davis - Iman Shumpert- Carmelo Anthony - Stoudemire - Tyson Chandler with JR Smith and Steve Novak off the bench ???
There’s three things that never make sense about the reimagining people do.
The hypothetical team made by signing Melo in free agency is worse than the roster they have next year. Not only did they literally have a better winning percentage next year, they were able to bring in Tyson Chandler who was actually the 2nd best player of the Knickstape era. We traded 1 first round pick in the Melo trade.
The reason the team struggled had nothing to do with losing assets because we didn’t trade many assets to begin with. The biggest issue is the highest paid player on the team went from a first team all-nba caliber player to bench level production. Do you think the Knicks win a championship if Karl Anthony Towns becomes Brook Lopez over the course of a season due ot injuries?
People who tell the story of the Knicks through the trade just ignore….everything else that happened. The Knicks were a Kings level team because of poor management for a decade prior to his arrival. As soon as Grunwald is fired and they hand the team over to Steve Mills, what moves do they make? They trade Camby, Richardson, Novak, and a first round pick for Bargnani. They sign JR Smith’s brother. Dolan is so upset about the Bargnani trade that he kills a Kyle Lowry deal. Then Phil Jackson comes along and trades Tyson Chandler and Felton for Dalembert and Shane Larkin. He trades Iman Shumpert and JR for cap space. Phil then cycles in journey men, g-leagues, and former lakers to try and make the triangle work, before trading assets for Derrick Rose and signing Joakim Noah to a deal much larger than anyone else was offering, and Joakim gets injured and then suspended.
If Melo gets credit, it’s for the battle that forced Phil from the organization. Kristaps forcing himself off the team ended the Steve Mills era, and we finally get Leon Rose. There was honestly no world where the Knicks prior front offices were going to build winners when they signed JR Smith’s brother but refused to offer a quallifying offer to Lin. Where the front office trades their last tradeable pick for Bargnani and the owner kills a Lowry deal.
No no, I meant that they could have had Melo and retained the capital they gave up for him that they could use for another player.
I do appreciate this write-up though, very informative and well written, and once again seems it comes down to poor front office decisions.
I hear what you’re saying but that bumps into #2, like the issue wasn’t that they didn’t have any assets. Like they traded 1 first round pick for Melo. The minute they decided to amnesty Billups (who was still productive at that point) for no reason, they sunk their ability to fully flesh out the team. They refused to move Amare (which I get on a personal/loyalty level, but not something Leon would’ve done as an example) annd so effectively were running with a 1⁄3 of the cap of every other team hoping to compete because Amare just couldn’t put together full seasons of play.
Like one of the desired moves was Chris Paul and there was real interest. Say you trade those assets for Chris Paul. You’ve got prime Melo, Chris Paul, and Amare. That’s your cap. You’d be hoping Melo/Chris Paul and some vet mins + rookies can succeed. Considering Melo/Tyson did decent for a couple of years at least, maybe it was feasible, but the real issue is you needed Amare to be Suns Amare for the timeline to actually be different. Having Gallinari or Wilson isn’t the thing that changes the story.
They were. They were trying to say he didnt deserve it
Also, isnt the basketball HoF a BASKETBALL HoF? As in they take what you did in college and international play (Olympics) into consideration? He won the chip at Cuse and 3 time gold and 1 bronze medalist
To be fair, Melo has way less of a Knicks legacy than Ewing. Melo’s most memorable years are with the Nuggets
Melo still did a lot for the Knicks. Knicks went from regularly being a 15-20 games under .500 team to a team that made the playoffs 3 straight seasons, including once out of the first round. For a lot of Knicks fans of that time Melo was their superstar/face of the franchise.
The Knicks were already above .500 before they traded for Melo at the deadline
They were 2 games above .500 and had lost 6 straight in January. Wheels were falling off that team because it was 100% reliant on Amare and D’Antoni’s pace.
I’m not saying Melo doesn’t have a legacy in NY, they had some good seasons with him. But Ewing was there 15 years going to the playoffs every year with deep runs too. I just want him to get his flowers
The bar is very low lol
yes overall Ewing’s Knicks legacy is stronger but for the younger generation of Knicks fans, his era was an island of competency in a sea of disappointment & dysfunction. He’s so many ppl i know’s favorite knick and that is well deserved.
& Melo’s most memorable years TO YOU were with the nuggets. Not to me & not to other Knicks fans. Melo belongs to NYC & the knicks, not Denver bro
Disagree, I didn’t even know Melo played for the nuggets until I got more into basketball.
Melo on the knicks is way more recognizable and popular to casuals.
Melo and Ewing are not remotely equal in Knicks respect/legacy terms, so yes it means something different coming from each of them. I’m not gonna trash Melo for saying this, but it defo means less from him than Patrick
also ewing is employed by the knicks. he gets a ring. i think it’s fair for him to say “we”.
I saw Kat allude to this on Seth Myers. Healing he said. I think that is so awesome and it really seems dead on for how Knicks players (almost all that were allowed lol) had become the #1 fans and then how this was done for the fans too so like, everyone won. I have nothing negative to say about any of them, I just think the sentiment is super rad and makes me feel so good that all the players I watched come so close and suffer heartbreak over decades feel this way 🙂
Ewing has a current role with the Knicks as basketball ambassador. He is much more of a Knick than Melo.
I have no problem with Melo feeling good about this and saying it.
But I also understand why some see that as a bit more like stolen valor than Ewing. Sure, Melo improved the franchise and got them to the playoffs, but ultimately it didn’t succeed.
Ewing led the Knicks to 2 NBA Finals, and fought to a close Game 7 loss vs what is without a doubt the most underrated champ of all time. The ‘94 Rockets were a true team led by the most underrated center of all time - Hakeem the Dream - a dude Wemby WISHES he could come close to matching.
Jokes on you, I don’t love Ewing saying it either. These retired players are acting like they won it themselves. Have some respect for the ones that actually did it. It’s has-been behaviour that’s not befitting a club legend.
It’s the hat man. I don’t have beef and it’s enraging.
It’s like George Karl had 1000 sons and they all post on r/nba.
If you think about it, if KD got time to run burners then Maybe George Karl does too
You would think Carmelo was a mass murderer with the response he gets. But its likely just stats nerds and Jokic stans (same thing!) using him as an emotional punching bag.
Lin fans and racists who use Lin to attack melo too
ill never forget Lin fans complaining about how harden was holding him back and how the rockets needed beard to take a back seat so Lin could run the offense. super normal fanbase, not miserable at all
Was this a rational conversation?
Fuck no and I’m not saying this rudely to you.
Lins entire career is overrated, he overachieved but he was a very meh player once the league adjusted to him
But its likely just stats nerds and Jokic stans (same thing!)
Nuggets fans strongly disliked him from before they even knew how Jokic’s name was spelled
Jokic stans are the ones that don’t have a problem with him lol Nuggets fans are the ones that hate him
Hey as a Jokic Stan and salty Nuggets fan, I still can’t say anything about this statement. It was his hometown team, who gives a fuck. We got ours. Let the man enjoy the moment
Seriously, dude is not without is flaws but Jesus this is no different than any other player enjoying their success this year. Fucking Toney Douglas got a shout out yesterday, why not Melo.
People are crazy about Melo man.
There’s a lot of things that Melo just says that if you take at face value is actually positive but immediately toxic to everyone here. Im not even a fan of Melo and also think he’s a bit overrated, but people seem so desperate for him to be a cancer to everyone when he’s clearly not that.
People here are legitimately losers. Spend all their time spreading hatred on a person they don’t know and has done nothing to wrong them.
The Melo hate on Reddit is unreal. This man is at 20+ home games a year, he’s a Knick fan and born in Brooklyn. He’s speaking as a New Yorker.
Yeah the Nuggets fans (myself included ngl) are still salty about how much he chose and lives for NYC. I can’t knock the guy’s commitment to the city and team, so I think he deserves credit same as other Knicks alumni at very least
I can’t deny the first thing I thought seeing him in the parade was “wtf dude really? This one but not the Denver parade?”
But I’d probably be salty if he went to the Nugs parade too lol
I honestly do think there was a path towards fixing his relationship with Denver but the dude seemingly has zero intentions on doing that. He just sorta sees us as where he started but really not much beyond that.
Couldn’t agree more
Who do the nuggets fans hate more; Melo or Iggy?
Melo is just cringe…a me-first player who chased money and individual accolades over winning time and time again in his career and now keeps trying to reframe the narrative.
Iggy was communicating team strategy to an opposing coach during a playoff series that we lost. And then he went to join that very team the next year. That’s crazy to me and crosses a line. So Iggy is much worse.
Thats crazy lol what
Thank you for your service
Iggy and it’s not particularly close lmao
Personally Iggy, I would say most die hards hate Iggy more but Melo has more general hate from the city
I appreciate ya’ll feeling salty but also Melo is from Brooklyn. People in BK - the born and raised folks, whether in Bed Stuy, Brighton Beach, or Bushwick - love Melo and consider him one of their own. It’s the same love Alvarado is getting now or that I imagine Derrick Rose would get if Chicago won a ring.
The hate is both maddening and hilarious. You got cunts in here calling him overrated but who is overrating him? Dude gets relentlessly shit on whenever he’s mentioned.
Kobe and Melo get a lot of hate on Reddit and from younger fans in general because their styles of play have become outdated.
In Melo’s case, I think the hate also comes from the fact that some people overrate his legacy and try to make it seem like he was one of LeBron’s and Kobe’s main competitors in his prime, alongside players like Duncan, Curry, or KD. However, his playoff resume is closer to Tracy McGrady’s than to theirs.
If I listened to only the “intelligent people” here, I would think Melo isn’t good enough to get a D1 scholarship.
Exactly, I once heard someone call Melo “an average guy with a great jumper.”
Theres a Knick “fan” in this thread that said hes Jamal Crawford but a little better scoring
It’s a fair take but in my opinion takes some nuance. Take a look at every team Melos team played against in the playoffs and tell me which time he had the better roster. He lost to a prime KG in Minnesota as a rookie, and other years ran into San Antonio or LA almost every year.
Arguably his Knicks team should have advanced to the ECF if Roy Hibbert didn’t collectively block all of New York city’s soul. But even then, he’s beating the LeBron Heat?
Meanwhile, his arguably best career team mates in his prime are JR Smith and late career Chauncey and Kenyon Martin. Melo and Amare didn’t get to play enough games together and please don’t talk about J Lin who was fun but never played at all star level again in his career.
Did he underachieve in team success? Sure. Was he an unbelievably all time dominant offensive player and generally likable guy? Yes.
Knicks matched up pretty well to the heat that season, they blew them out 3 times. I was pretty confident they’d win in the playoffs or at least be very competitive but the Knicks fell apart during the playoffs.
I think it’s mostly Carmelo’s fault that he didn’t play with better players. He had the Knicks give up assets to trade for him instead of joining New York at the end of the season. Then he always demanded max money which limited New York’s cap space. He had a chance to join a good Bulls team in 2015 but decided to get the bag in New York with a bad supporting cast instead.
The trade was perfectly fine, also Melo didn’t force a different team to trade for him. The issue was that they picked up Billups’s option then immediately wasted the amnesty on him to get Tyson Chandler. If they amnestied Amare, waived Billups and signed Chandler, they probably would’ve been a contender much faster than now.
I always hate this take. He didn’t force Donnie Walsh to make that trade. Also, people always say this as if most of those players became anything more than average in the league.
Kobe hate is insane, they love Brunson and he plays similar. The younger fans let media dictate they opinions
Melo probably could’ve had a playoff resume like KD if he left his team in free agency to join the Lakers or Celtics
Look at the flairs, it’s fans of all the other teams that are butthurt over this. Knicks fans are like “hell yeah, brother.”
Fully agree. Him and Marbury may have mixed success in NY but it was legitimate buzz when they arrived as stars with roots here.
It’s clear internally the organization views this win as a historical collective victory and welcomed past players with open arms. Good on the actual team for taking part and not sneering at it.
I enjoyed the video from months back of the knicks alumni night. I think more franchises should embrace having non stars come back to celebrate success.
Probably only some of these comments are actual hate, it’s just fun to shitpost about. It’s like if news came out that Dave Chappelle got addicted to crack, the whole reddit thread would be Chappelle Show crackhead guy quotes.
I think it’s the same as Kun Agüero, a football player from Argentina.
A lot of people were tired of him because the national team wasn’t winning, he retired, Argentina got a world cup and the guy was celebrating with the others players as if he was part of them tournament
A lot of people went “We won because you left”
Mamdani’s speech was literally this exact quote but longer and now because it’s Melo saying it there’s a problem?
Nah Melo is right. This is a win for all of us. We need to stop the hate.
Once a Knick, always a Knick
context matters
I don’t personally have a problem with it but yes, different people saying the same thing can change its meaning
Who gonna tell him
That the people who actually live in, and play for new york consider him a legend and fuck with him?
People still love Carmelo. I like him and I’m able to say his time here was very underwhelming. At the parade yesterday grown men were screaming his name as he passed by.
This is fair. I just think for a basketball sub people don’t really understand sports all that much. Melo is a NY legend. He came to yall city when nobody wanted to play there and brought some solid basketball. They didn’t win but its okay. I’m always surprised when people act like folks in new york would hate Melo.
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Hey man he forced a trade to New York which clearly did not affect the roster at all by all the players they lost. And he brought New York close to the conference finals. That’s such a big step for Brunson and the gang to win it all!
They traded the kitchen sink for him when he would have just signed as a free agent a couple months later.
He’s being sarcastic
brother man, do you know what empathy is?
You got the same energy for Ewing ?
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In some ways I understand this. I worked at a company where I was one of the early software engineers. After I left, they released something really big and I felt like I had had a hand in it despite not being there, because I had built the scaffolding they used.
On the other hand, what exactly did Melo do that got this team a ring?
Melo did not do any of the work that went into this ring
That’s not true.
Apparently the trade he was part of landed a pick which turned into Mitch Robinson.
Give Melo the trophy.
Sure but here’s the thing, you guys post on here about how Brunson “ruined” Melo’s legacy and shit like that. You don’t realize that Melo came to the Knicks and wanted to win a ring but didn’t (yes, due to his own shortcomings), but he’s always supported the team since and he’s very happy this team won it all. He’s a part of all the other Knicks legends that have sat court side throughout the years and rooted for this team that they love. He’s not under the impression that this is somehow a ring that goes down as “his” but he loves this team and the city loves him.
I feel you on that. The Knicks have a specific atmosphere where all the legends, fans, and anyone else who supported them over the years feel like they’ve been in it together. In some ways Melo’s sentiment reminds me of people like Spike Lee, who sat courtside every year through thick and thin. And to top it off, I’ve NEVER seen a finals where these people traveled in droves to the opposing stadium to make the road game feel like a home game. Lots of cities have a ton of famous and/or rich people who could’ve done that, but none of them did the way these Knicks fans did.
I don’t think he’s saying it in the sense of “this is MY ring” and honestly I think you got some subconscious bias against him to assume that. I think he’s just saying that the Knicks finally did it after over half a century and every player that passed through was a stepping stone to accomplish that.
His trade to the Thunder turned into Mitchell Robinson
He forced the knicks to dump assets for him and go through a long rebuild that overlapped with Brunson’s free agency year.
What an incredibly misleading way of describing the situation…
When we traded Melo to OKC we planned to build around Porzingis. Then he tore his ACL and that blew up. Then we tried to pivot to KD and Kyrie but they didn’t show up, so we went with Randle which ended up way better for us.
It’s not Melo’s fault the guy we tried to build around tore his ACL. And it also wasn’t a long rebuild between Melo leaving and Thibs turning Julius into a star.
you don’t know what you’re talking about my guy and it shows
how did he force the Knicks when it was Dolan who got nervous & forced Donnie Walsh to pull the trigger when Walsh was saying he would sign here in free agency?
5d chess amirite?????
Redditors always trying to compare their 9-5s to being a pro athlete
Well I’ve never been a pro athlete so I have no other frame of reference
Funniest has to be r/hockey with this
Melo trade got us Mitch, so he does actually have a direct connection to this squad.
Melo could’ve been trash and got himself waived but didn’t and instead played good enough to get himself traded for the pick that ended up becoming the guy who literally sealed the championship.
Like it or not he his efforts ended up going towards the championship. Obviously he doesn’t get a ring but he should still get respect for putting the work in that he did for the Knicks org. We don’t have to shit on him just because he never went all the way with it.
He’s not even taking any credit. He’s just saying how proud he feels that he was a Knick, and that the Knicks won a ring. Redditors say this shit all the time, “we won a ring,” and they never even played on their varsity team let alone the NBA team they’re cheering for. Melo’s giving credit to the city just as much as himself here too.
He said the entire city won. All the fans etc…
At the end of the season, the record is 0-0, doesn’t matter how many buckets you scored the previous season.
Was the best part of the parade and also Mamdani’s speech. Everyone from Marbury to Ewing to Sprewell out in the parade and being celebrated for building the franchise to this moment.
it’s so cool to see people bring up past players fr. It had me thinking about our past players, I just love the sentiment that everyone’s contributed one way or another throughout the years. People in this thread suck man
People just hate Melo. Former players and coaches (who have stuck around officially or unofficially) always say shit like this and get credit. It’s fun to remember all the guys along the way. Carmelo made the Knicks cool again when fans were showing up with bags over their head. Amare too.
Kurt Thomas and Stephon Marbury too 🥹
The speech had me in tears lol. It’s been beautiful to see how actually united the entire city has been through this run.
Mfs in this sub seem miserable, imagine Melo being happy about the Knicks winning a championship and talking shit about his lack of a ring.
Whole city won, 100%.
if you didnt get a ring, you didnt win bud
He cant be a fan of the team he played for?
Legendary Atlanta Hawks forward Carmelo Anthony?
He actually is really liked in Portland. Expectations were low, but he was a pro and showed a lot of effort and love for the city. Blazers legend.
Ngl I loved Melo with us
Was fun to watch and he had some great moments with us that were super fun to cheer for
Jesus Christ can people be normal about Carmelo Anthony for a single day? He’s like the 20th guy to say this live including Knicks players and the Zohran
Then why do they bother bringing out former players and stuff? Don’t be salty.
You have this same energy for Ewing right?
People clowing on him for saying something like this, do you even fundamentally like pro sports? Like what’s even the point of rooting for your team and your city winning a chip if you don’t believe in your mind that every single attribute of a city and organization contributes to victory.
He obviously doesn’t mean he was out there hooping, but he did contribute to the tapestry that is the culture of the Knicks that allowed us to get here. Does someone like Brunson join as an FA if a player like Melo isn’t universally beloved by fans and considered a NY legend even though we’re his second team he only spent 6 years on and never had real success?
Everyone here says “we won!” about their team but when Melo says it it’s an HR violation.
People were praising Mamdani’s speech, rightfully so I think, in which he spent a long time making the exact same point as Melo is here.
holy shit, what is up with some of y’all?
in other threads y’all are saying Melo could never be happy for another team & he’s clearly salty
then when there is direct evidence pointing to the contrary (this video) some of y’all are in here moving goalposts saying “well what did he do to contribute?”
he is a kid from red hook, clearly grew up having an affinity for the Knicks & spent a solid portion of his career here & now resides in NYC. He’s a knick alumni & fan. he gets to celebrate just like the rest of us fans.
Y’all really need to touch grass
I legit think that people here have little to no interactions with people outside of their computer screens.
yeah fr bro & it shows
This sub has devolved into pure hatred and clowning. I don’t know if it’s a late Gen Z / Gen Alpha thing but it wasn’t always like this and it’s gross and sucks the joy out of everything good about fandom.
This sub has a weird hatred for Melo. It’s funny because I don’t see it in the real world at all
The subreddit’s hate for Melo has a direct relationship to the sub’s love for Jeremy Lin.
Somehow Knicks fans are able to love both of them.
Hell Lin doesn’t even dislike Melo like that lol. In fact he hates people getting mad at dudes on his behalf when they don’t know the whole story.
The 2 buried the hatchet and that really should be enough. Knicks even won a championship to top it off but people just refuse to let go.
Come to Denver sometime.
Too many if y’all feed off of negativity. Let this man be happy for the city and a Knicks franchise he holds close to his heart.
its crazy how many non knicks fans clowning on him here when we all still rock w him and every player that gave us smth to root for. We all did win idgaf.
People are hating on him and saying he didn’t win anything but will turn around and say patrick ewing has the right to say he won as well.
People are just sad losers man. Reddit sucks (even though I’m here every day to see what the happenings are). Everyone just constantly hating. This is a textbook answer from Carmelo. It’s not like he is claiming he’s responsible. He’s just a New Yorker through and through.
Hurr durrr let’s hate on Melo what else is he going to say? Most of you were born after he was drafted so your “hate” is just parroted from someone else. What did he ever do to offend y’all so much 🤣
“One might say I’m the real reason they won.” -Carmelo Anthony
“Legend”
3 playoff appearances with Knicks. 2x 1st round exits (1 sweep). 1x 2nd round exit.
This dude won 1 playoff series with the Knicks. To be a legend you must have done something legendary. What did he do that was legendary?
Olympic Melo is legit legendary but that’s not really a Knick moment.
Hoodie Melo though. Hoodie Melo is Knicks lore.
Compare that to anything anyone else did in nyc between 2000 & 2020…
Careful melo r/nba is gonna get even more upset at you even though the Knick fans at the parade cheered (probably the loudest) when mamdani shouted you out during the speech
Look I know people shitting on this, but the mayor listed names of every legend and did say this was their title too and not one person in the crowd booed.
People here would react different if Ewing or Starks said it
Just sounds like he’s really proud of this team and what it means not only for the fans but the city and everyone who’s been involved in the organization
I like how everyone loves the Knicks legends and are happy to see them celebrate… then yall just hate Melo to hate
Thank you Melo! New york loves you for bringing Mitch Robinson to the Knicks
I won too
Without Randle, this celebration prob doesn’t happen
I don’t think anyone in New York will begrudge him that
Carrrrrmeeelllooo Anthooooooonny
In a way, this is a win for basketball and all basketball fans. I also won. The Spurs also won, everybody can say they won.
Maybe the real championship is the friends we made along the way
Melo has so much ego lmaoo bro u didn’t win shit
Mamdani: “All the past Knicks led to this. This is for them too”
Holy shit infinite aura.
Melo: “All the past Knicks led to this. This is a win for all of us.”
lol gtfo bum.
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Lmao in that case someone give demar derozan a ring asap!
You already know what the people here are gonna say 💀
One thing that never gets mentioned about Melo’s time at the Knicks was that he (and STAT) legitimatised the team again after they’d been an absolute joke for a decade. For lack of a better description, they made the Knicks cool again.
Anyone who was watching the NBA at the time will tell you that before 2010, we thought of the Knicks then like we think of the Wizards or Kings now. There was a stretch where Chris Duhon was the best player on the team. Players used to walk into MSG knowing there’s a decent shot they’d be getting a career high that night.
That changed when STAT arrived, and then was cemented with Melo. The overtime game against the Bulls where he hit some absolute bombs from three was one of the biggest moments of that season.
There were millions of New Yorkers who never watched a single Knicks game before this year and celebrated like crazy so it’s not wild that a former Knick is excited.
That hat is a fucking travesty, though.