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A basketball platform combating false narratives
Joined May 2019
First-Ballot Hall of Famer…WHAT THEY GONNA SAY NOW?. Shop our ‘Narrative CTRL’d’ merch collection now:
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Kiyan Anthony learning how to jab step from the master (2016)
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JR Smith reacting to top JR Smith plays is as entertaining as you think it is. #MoreThanAMeme
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Rookie Melo was so good, even LeBron had to pull up to his playoff game. He even threw on a Nuggets #15 jersey😭
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Every bucket from Carmelo Anthony's 37 points in 14 minutes performance against Nigeria (2012)
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Kiyan Anthony on his dad's retirement (h/t @overtime). "People think retirement is 60-year old's retiring just to sit down in their bed all day. Even when he's on the court, he still would fry anybody that's in the NBA."
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Steve Smith on Carmelo Anthony's legacy (h/t @NBATV). “When we look back 20 years from now, we’ll say, ‘We didn’t appreciate Carmelo Anthony enough.’”. #MeloMondays
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Kobe vs Carmelo Christmas Day 2012. Kobe: 34 PTS (14/24 FGs), 5 REBs, 1 W.Melo: 34 PTS (13/23 FGs), 6 REBs, 3 ASTs. Buckets🪣
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13 years ago today, LeBron and D-Wade sat for a game against the Knicks in Miami and Melo took that personally. 50 points, ALL JUMPERS…not a single point in the paint lol
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The greatest dunk contest you've never seen. Kobe, T-Mac, Starbury, Penny & more! (h/t @TFBChuckTheBoss)
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Kenyon Martin on Carmelo Anthony's defense (h/t @GilsArenaShow). "I beg to differ with people that say Melo can't defend. I've seen him come out of the timeout and be like, 'I got Bean'. come out 'I got Bron.'. When it comes down to it, playoffs and all of that, that boy showed
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16 minutes, 10 seconds of NBA players saying Melo was the hardest player they guarded and giving him his flowers.
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what even is "aura for aura" ?.
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Maturing is realizing that all of the old heads are right about Michael Jordan. even if we didn't get to see it
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Wade told Melo not to pass it only for him to shoot 28 times that game and record just 2 assists🤣🤣. Knicks won by 20 lol #MeloForever
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Nah those hoopology TikToks don't miss lmao. Zach Randolph was a BEAST
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Wow, Carmelo Anthony told @pointforward how 'Hoodie Melo' started and it's not what we thought. The league did this man so dirty
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Raw footage of 16-year old Carmelo Anthony at Five Star Basketball Camp in 2000. (h/t LowerEastScribe/YouTube)
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Since 2000, no NBA player has more game-winning shots than Carmelo Anthony (30). Captain Clutch.
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Fuck it full game of Carmelo Anthony dropping 62 @ MSG
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Paul George said guys used to get ‘Melo-itis’ on his @PodcastPShow:. “Danny (Granger) was supposed to play. We get a call that Danny slips in his bathtub, sprains his ankle and so he’s out for the game…. And that was the story - guys would say ‘Oh, you got Melo-itis’ today,
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12 years ago today, Melo and KD met in the 77th game of the 2013 season with the scoring title on the line. KD - 27 PTS, 7/17 FGs.Melo - 36 PTS, 15/29 FGs, 1 W
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14 minutes, 37 points. An all-time performance from this country’s greatest (basketball) veteran. Happy 4th of July🇺🇸
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This…all of this
What does “clutch” even mean?.
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instead of grunting i think tennis players should try yelling "fuck out of here" like they're melo.
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DeMarcus Cousins on hoopers he looked up to (h/t @DwightHoward). "My favorite player all-time is Carmelo Anthony. I took a lot from his game: the way he moves with his size, the quick first step, the physicality & finesse he plays with. (He's) the reason I wore 15."
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Carmelo Anthony once summed up NY perfectly (h/t @VICESports). “New York is the greatest city on the planet but you not a New Yorker if you don’t wake up some days and be like, ‘Man, fuck this place’”. #NationalNewYorkDay
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THIS TOO HARD🔥🍊🔥🍊🔥🍊. Kiyan visited Syracuse today, where his dad delivered their first (and only) championship in program history as a freshman
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Highlights you didn’t know you needed today. JR Smith 60 points off the BENCH in China…oh yeah, and he went 14/18 from three🔥🔥. #MoreThanAMeme
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(April 2011) Carmelo Anthony’s most dominant playoff performance came against Boston’s Big 3. Melo: 42 points, 17 rebounds, 6 assists
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How’d Carmelo Anthony’s first home game as a Blazer go?. - 29 MINs.- 19 PTS on 9/11 shooting.- 4 REBs.- 2 ASTs.- +27.- Exits game with team up 32 and crowd chanting his name. But they told us he was done🤔🤔🤔 #STAYME700
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Karl-Anthony Towns on Carmelo Anthony (2021). "(Melo) just made it so cool to be a Knick. he was just transcendent as a player."
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Carmelo Anthony's game was a different level of smooth. still can't believe we're not gonna see this again=/
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BREAKING: Carmelo Anthony retires from the NBA after 19 seasons. 10x All-Star.Top 9 scorer in NBA history.2013 Scoring Champion.6x All-NBA.NBA 75th Anniversary Team. First Ballot Hall of Famer WITHOUT A DOUBT #STAYME7O
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11th overall pick Matas Buzelis on one NBA hill he's willing to die on (h/t @TheDeep3Podcast). "Carmelo Anthony is the greatest scorer ever. I don't think people realize how insane it was to guard him."
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🚨Carmelo Anthony turns 40 today🚨. So we're throwing it back to his first 40-point game 20 years ago when he locked up a playoff spot all as a ROOKIE (h/t @DawkinsMTA). HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @carmeloanthony 🥳
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HAPPY 4TH OF JULY. From the greatest Olympian basketball player of all time
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Carmelo Anthony scored 28,289 points and made 10,119 shots over the course of his 19-year Hall of Fame career. We went back and found the first field goal he made with each of the six teams he played for🧵👇
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Jeremy Lin:.- Good 2 months of play in 2012.- Bench player.- Champion.- Cries about situation.- “I feel bad for Lin”. Carmelo Anthony:.- Great 15 years of play from 03-17.- 1st ballot Hall of Famer.- Prime wasted by Phil Jackson.- Doesn’t cry about situation.- “Melo’s trash LOL”
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Phoenix Suns players are publicly speaking out about Carmelo Anthony. Chris Paul: "Melo is one of the best to ever to play the game. he should be able to walk off the court when he’s ready.” (h/t @SBondyNYDN). Kevin Durant: "I think he has the talent to play in our league"
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20 years after Melo and LeBron played each other in high school, their sons Bronny and Kiyan will do the same. LEGENDARY SHIT
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Melo and Kyrie going bucket for bucket is just as fire as it sounds (@josh_lozanoWER1). #STAYME7O
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Jalen Brunson on one retired Knick he'd most want to add to this Knicks roster (h/t @Roommates__Show). "Melo, it's just easy."
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.@SInow asked Carmelo Anthony who his favorite teammate over his 19-year NBA career was. Melo's answer? JR Smith
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THIS COULD’VE BEEN IN YOUR JERSEY YOUR DUMB FUCKS
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Ian Begley reports that there’s ‘strong support’ within the Knicks organization to hang # 7 in the MSG rafters. Let’s go, @nyknicks
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Captain clutch, Carmelo Anthony, hit 20 game-winning shots in his career. Since 1996-1997, that’s the most out of anybody in the NBA (Kobe had 19). #MeloForever
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Earl Watson on Carmelo Anthony:. “He immediately got his team into the playoffs, he won a national championship at Syracuse, so you can’t tell me Melo’s not a winner”
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Paul Pierce told @IAMATHLETEpod that he'd rather guard LeBron, Kobe or T-Mac than Carmelo Anthony:. "He used to hurt my chest. He's a bulldog. He's gonna be physical. He's gonna post you up. He's gonna hit you with a shoulder in the chest. You're gonna be hurting after the game.
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Name a sports duo (or trio) you wish played one more season together:.
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Rip Hamilton on Detroit not drafting Melo in 2003. "Melo was a once-in-a-generational type talent. if Carmelo comes to us, would the narrative have been different with LeBron James?. I think the narrative would've been totally different on (Melo's) career" (h/t @shobasketball)
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That one time the Wizards double-teamed Melo full court when he had 49 so he couldn’t get 50 lol
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Melo pulled up to the Blazers game last night in Portland❤️🖤
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On this day 10 years ago, Carmelo Anthony started an INSANE run to clinch the 2 seed for the Knicks while securing his 1st scoring title:. 21 PTS, 8 REBs, 50% FG, W.37 PTS, 6 REBs, 2 BLKs, 45% FG, W.28 PTS, 8 REBs, 47% FG, W.29 PTS, 8 REBs, 3 STLs, W.22 PTS, 7 REBs, 3 ASTs, W.32
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Carmelo Anthony was a bucket in LA to end his career. - Come off the bench.- Relegated to primarily a spot-up role.- Career-high eFG%.- Career-high BLKs/game. #MeloMonday.
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The first ever battle of the Melo's. LaMelo: 30 PTS (10/18 FGs), 8 ASTs, 6 REBs, 4 STLs.Carmelo: 29 PTS (10/19 FGs), 5 STLs, 2 BLKs, 3 REBs, 1 W
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NBA Summer League MVP and Rockets’ Rookie Cam Whitmore on why he chose # 7:. “I picked seven because that’s somebody I admire by the name of Carmelo Anthony”
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By averaging at least 20 PPG in his first 14 seasons, Carmelo Anthony joined Kareem, Shaq and Jordan as the fourth player in NBA history to accomplish the feat. 2004: 21.0 PPG, 6.1 REBs, 2.8 ASTs.2005: 20.8 PPG, 5.7 REBs, 2.6 ASTs.2006: 26.5 PPG, 4.9 REBs, 2.7 ASTs.2007: 28.9
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This dude Carmelo Anthony was really out there putting up:. - 42 PTS.- 14/30 FGs.- 4/8 3Ps.- 17 REBs.- 6 ASTs.-2 BLKs. in Boston against their Big 3 WITHOUT Billups/Amare and still put the Knicks in position to get the W before Jared Jeffries fumbled the ball lol
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We calculated exactly how many points Carmelo Anthony has missed out on over the last few years due to the NBA blackballing an all-time great. THREAD🧵
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That time 2025 Hall of Fame classmates met in their prime at Madison Square Garden. Dwight: 29 PTS, 18 REBs.Melo: 39 PTS, 10 REBs, 1 W
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Kevin Garnett on Carmelo Anthony’s physicality (@allthesmokeprod). “He was probably the most physical offensive player in league history”. #MeloMondays
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Iman Shumpert says LeBron ruined basketball, not Steph Curry (@bigpodwithshaq). “The person that ruined all of this was Bron…when Bron made it okay for people to team up, it stopped making the star player have to come back with something added to their game.”
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Just so we’re clear heading into the season. LaMelo: Melo:
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The final 2 minutes, 11 seconds of this Nuggets Mavs playoff game in 2009 was WILD
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