Stephen A. Smith reacts to Carmelo Anthony announcing his retirement from the NBA | First Take
Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins react to Carmelo Anthony announcing his retirement from the NBA after 19 seasons.
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44 Comments
Most hype, least success. Couldn't make anything work even when he had great players around him. Very average guy who is renowned because Lebron was picked ahead of him
Ringless only cared about money
How can you retire when you have been out of work for over a year? Is Joakim Noah retiring too?
Congratulations to Melo on his retirement one of the greatest scorers in NBA history
Im glad melo gone. He shoulda retired years ago and he fucked up Linsanity
That Syracuse run was epic! Shout out to Melo, Warrick, and McNamara!
😢😢
he's good but can be overrated. when push came to shove he never got it done. he's more of an individual player like Westbrook, you cant win with him as the leader #1 look at their track record it doesn't lie. never made a nba finals ppl bring up his college title so that was college 20 sum years ago stop it it doesn't matter 🤣
Never forget chumpmelo is the last team to lose to the timberwolves in a playoff series
28 and 55 playoff record
He loses 2 for every one win
Even tracy mcgrady playoff loser has better winrate
19 and 31
SHOULD'VE WENT TO MY BULLS WITH DROSE AND NOAH
He'd finesse u all night, then send u bruised n battered into the ice baths.
What I respect the most is he wanted all the pressure. He was a competitor n preferred to man the knicks n try to win at the biggest arena n sports.
Melo could've went the big 3 rout earlier n got it. He decided he wanted something bigger
He didn't get it. So few do. But he challenged greatness.
Thanks me7o
Melo definitely a legend. His shoot and style of play is a thing of beauty. Mr 3 to the dome. Love his time on the Knicks especially.
No doubt Carmelo deserve’s a Denver ring, banner and his name forever stamped on ball arena When the Denver Nuggets win the 2023 Finals…but Unfortunately for mello Nikola Jokić #15 2x MVP hopefully Finals MVP will have forever cemented the name Jokić to the #15 jersey 💯
This guy beat all my big 12 teams in March Madness. That is when I became a fan of his. HS I had both of Melo's Nuggets jerseys. Great career and one of the dominant scorers.
My Lakers was stupid for not resigning him we need him
melo the goat
THE $$$$ STOPPED MELO FROM BEING A RING
Mr. Fundamentals 2.0…..
It's sad that nobody is going to talk about him anymore because now fans only care about championship 🏆
Chris Bosh is always going to be remembered as a champ so is KD so I don't know why melo didn't take less money to go to Miami
Melo need a job Stephen A Smith
Ain't nobody gonna miss a team Cancer like Carmelo
Thank you Melo 🫡🏅
Knowing the person that I am I would never announce retirement untill I win a championship
F the money, I play to win the whole thing
As much I hate what KD did but I respect him because he a 2 times champion 🏆 and final MVP if you don't win the championship I don't respect you!
Theres a guy at my gym that i hoop with I KNOW HIS REAL NAME BUT THEY CALL HIM MELO .he has a couple melo tattoos.. he can beat me1v1 because i suck at basketball but when we play as a team HE MAKES THE WORST DECISIONS HE CAN MAKE AND WE ALWAYS LOOSE. I wonder if thats how the real melo is because honestly I never heard his name as an allstar player
In my opinion, he should have won MVP in 2013, Knicks were 2nd in the East and Melo was the leading scorer.
He goes for the money and now he another Charles Barkley or Karl m
Insanely gifted in scoring but nobody pay attention to them because they didn't win the chip
Just look how everyone respect Kenny Smith prospective because he got 2 and laugh at chuck because he didn't win anything
Robert horry, David west, Kenney Smith I'm picking over Charles Barkley any day because you got to show me you got a 💍
9th all time leading scorers 👍
Melo was my dawg
Melo with the nuggets is how I remember him 💯
Thought he been retired!
Not Melo love you Melo favorite player Denver nuggets are playing tonight better show tributes and win go denver
Was a selfish superstar, could have accomplish a lot more.
a storybook ending to his career
I thought he has been retired lol
It’s sad he should have gotten a tour like wade before returning he could score that thang with the best of them thanks Melo
Well if he did get that position in the heat when he had a chance I don’t believe they’d win championships. Bosh was key to that team
Favorite player ever, I remember watching him at Syracuse as a dominant freshman. And I will always respect and applaud the fact he was willing to go to the Knicks as a super star.
Those Mamba Vs melo matchups were amazing battles
Seeing Melo retired just makes you realize how good we had it when those guys played and to appreciate the greatness Bron, KD, Steph are doing now cause when they leave the game the NBA will not be the same
NBA live 2005, Melo was unstoppable
Why they show Melo miss that open layup at 0:55??? 🤣🤣🤣 Did him dirty with that one
Melo is and always will be a sellout and its sad he didnt stay in denver and win a chip with us .
I'm glad. They really would've been talking bout how Bron cheated if they had melo instead of bosh
I would say he’s James harden that can score in the post but not as good of a passer