“I’m not going to New Jersey, though… if it was in Brooklyn, next year, I would be there. I can’t play at the Prudential Center, champ.”
Carmelo Anthony speaks on how he almost became a Net👀
“I’m not going to New Jersey, though… if it was in Brooklyn, next year, I would be there. I can’t play at the Prudential Center, champ.” pic.twitter.com/RqoZZdKZ9U
— The Brooklyn Way (@Jersey2Brooklyn) February 14, 2024
by ScathachWhen
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Can’t blame him
Ngl i kinda get the vibes that this dude tries everything to be relevant
Maybe that mentality is part of the reason why he never won a ring, much less won a conference finals, much less even made the conference finals more than one time. Carmelo was a great pure scorer. That’s it. He wasn’t a winner he wasn’t a leader he wasn’t clutch and he wasn’t a great all-round basketball player.
Then nobody wanted to sign him and he cried. Maybe it’s because you’re a cancer that never won anything. Him thinking the Nuggets gave Jokic “his number” to spite him is hilarious.
Carmelo would’ve been cool in Brooklyn
Between him and even Bogdanovic recently – these guys just say anything to play to their crowd. And the Nets are an easy whipping boy because there are not enough fans for there to be a backlash. Whatever. It will be even better for the real fans if we ever win a championship. 10 people at a parade is still a fucking parade.
They would never say this about Toronto because the fans would be rabid. We got better things to do than care about what a guy who was only relevant for taking the money and not winning says
For the New Jersey portion of the fan base: this is a big reason why Brooklyn, for all its imperfections, was necessary.
The Nets struggled to sell tickets (finals games), were an afterthought in every way, and just was not a good franchise from a business sense (and teams like the Knicks fans took over particularly in Newark anyway)
I have my issues with the court, the shying away from NJ history, and overall contributions to gentrification, but the move undoubtedly made the team a destination for stars in ways that it couldn’t be before