Adult Life

Carmelo Anthony is a professional basketball player in the NBA for the Portland Trailblazers, and has played for other teams such as the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, and Houston Rockets.

Draft

Carmelo started off his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets. He was drafted by them at the number 3 overall pick in the 2003 draft.

He was drafted after one of the greatest players of all time, Lebron James to the Cleveland Cavaliers who came straight out of high school to the NBA, and Darko Miličić to the Detroit Pistons, who ended up a bust. Drafted After Carmelo were Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade.

The 2003 draft class is regarded as one of the best draft classes in NBA history and Carmelo was one of the best players to come from it.



NBA

Melo's NBA career was nothing short of a historical one. In his rookie season in 2003-04 he made the NBA All-Rookie team with 21 PPG and 6 RPG.

In 2007 he was selected to his first of 10 All-Star Games. Another acheivement in the next season, Melo made NBA history scoring a record 33 points in a single quarter.

Later, in 2011 Anthony was traded to the New York Knicks where he quickly found home in his native state of New York. After 7 seasons with the Knicks Carmelo was traded from the team after having altercations with the team President, Phil Jackson. After this Melo jumped around from teams such as Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, and now Portland Trailblazers.

★NBA Stats★

  • 24.0 PPG
  • 6.5 RPG
  • 3.0 APG
  • 44.9% FG%
  • 81.2% FT%

★Olympic Stats★

  • 10.8 PPG
  • 4.0 RPG
  • 1.0 APG

Olympics

Anthony has played in the Olympics for the US national basketball team four times, winning a bronze medal with the 2004 squad and gold medals on the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic teams.

He is the US Olympic team's all-time leader in points, rebounds, and games played. Carmelo has played with the likes of Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Kyrie Irving, and Steph Curry.

He was first selcted to play for the team in 2004 in Athens, Greece. That season he didn't play extremely well, getting little minutes and only scoring 2.4 PPG. The team went on to win the bronze medal behind Italy and Argentina.

In the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympics Melo was a key player and one of the leaders of the team that won 3 gold medals back-to-back-to-back.