Carmelo Anthony

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Carmelo Anthony
Position Small Forward
Nickname Melo
Height 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Weight 230 lb (105 kg)
Team Denver Nuggets
Nationality Flag of United States United States
Born May 29, 1984
New York City
High school Oak Hill Academy (Virginia)
College Syracuse University
Draft 1st Round, 3rd overall, 2003
Denver Nuggets
Pro career 2003 – present
Awards NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2003)

Carmelo Kiyan Anthony (born May 29, 1984, in New York City, New York) is an American professional basketball player at the small forward position for the Denver Nuggets of the NBA and the USA National Team.

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[edit] Early years

His father, after whom Anthony is named, died of cancer when Anthony was three years old. He lived in Brooklyn, New York for two years after which his family moved to Baltimore in 1992 where he began winning local basketball awards. He has two brothers, Robert and Wilford, a sister, Michelle, and half-sister, Daphne. His mother is African-American, and his father was a Jamaican born in Kingston.

[edit] High school career

Carmelo grew up in the Druid Hill section of West Baltimore, where he commuted to Towson Catholic High School for his first three years of high-school. During the summer of 2000, when he grew five inches, he made a name for himself in the area, being named the 2001 Baltimore Sun's metro player of the year, as well as Baltimore Catholic League player of the year. Anthony transferred to Oak Hill Academy in Virginia for his senior campaign and became a high school All-American.

[edit] College career

Anthony played one season at Syracuse University. He averaged 22.2 points (16th in the nation, 4th in the Big East) and 10.0 rebounds in leading the Orangemen to their first ever NCAA tournament title in 2003. He led the team in scoring, rebounding, minutes played (36.4 minutes per game), field goals made and attempted and free throws made and attempted. Anthony also earned the tournament's Final Four MVP honors; his efforts included a 33 point explosion against Texas in the semi-final, and a solid 20 points and 10 rebounds in the final victory over the University of Kansas. Afterward, the overjoyed Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim described Anthony as, "...by far, the best player in college basketball. It wasn't even close. Nobody was even close to him last year in college basketball. That's the bottom line." Anthony says that he originally planned to stay at Syracuse for at least two seasons, but having already accomplished everything he set out to, he chose to abandon his collegiate career with Boeheim's blessing, and declared himself eligible for the 2003 NBA Draft, where he was chosen 3rd overall by the Nuggets, behind LeBron James (1st overall, Cleveland Cavaliers) and Darko Milicic (2nd overall, Detroit Pistons).

Named Second-Team All-America by AP as a freshman...Led Syracuse to a 30-5 record and the school's first NCAA Championship in men's basketball...Named Most Outstanding Player of the 2003 Final Four and East Regional...Consensus national Freshman of the Year...Unanimous choice as Big East Conference Freshman of the Year and was an All-Big East First team selection...Avergaed 22.2 ppg (16th in nation) and 10.0 rpg (19th in nation)...In the national championship victory over Kansas scored 20 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had seven assists.

[edit] NBA career

In his first year, he averaged 21 points per game and led the Nuggets to one of the biggest turnarounds in NBA history, transforming a previously uncompetitive team into a playoff contender. Anthony narrowly lost Rookie of the Year honors to the Cavaliers' LeBron James.

Anthony's playing style is not considered to be as exciting as that of fellow 2003 draft picks Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, but he is generally recognized as a prolific scorer. His movement is smooth, and he is deceptively quick. Anthony has a variety of subtle offensive moves, a consistent jump shot, and an uncanny ability to drive to the basket and earn trips to the free throw line. Along with being a proficient scorer, his teammates from Syracuse have described him as an unselfish player. Still, questions remain about his efficiency as a player. His Player Efficiency Rating was at 16.7 in the 2004-2005 season. Also, in that season, his offensive rating was 103 and his defensive rating was 107. The league average, in the meantime, was 106. [1] This means that when he was on the court, his opponents scored 107 points per 100 possessions and his team scored 103 points per 100 possessions. Other metrics, including the Roland Rating as well as On/Off court measures, peg him as inefficient as compared to peers such as LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. However, during the 2005-2006 campaign, Anthony displayed a defensive presence greater than that of his 2 peers of the 2003 draft. His PER also improved significantly, to 22.10. His improvement was on full display during the World Championships in the summer of 2006, where Anthony was the only member of Team USA chosen to be on the All-Tournament team. At the same time, Anthony has acquired a reputation for being a tremendous performer in the clutch. From the beginning of the 2003-2004 season to the end of the 2005-2006 season, he hit 11 out of 17 game-winning shots, by far the most of any player in that time period (next was Ray Allen who hit 8 out of 18 game winning shots). His shooting percentage for game winners was .647, the highest of any player with 4 or more game-winners. Kobe Bryant hit 7 of 32 game winning shots, Wade was 6 for 17, and James had just 4 of 19 in that time period.

Early in the 2006-2007 season, in just his 8th game of the season, Anthony tied the franchise record of six-straight 30-point games recorded by Alex English in the 1982-1983 season, falling short of establishing a new record as he finished with 29 points in his 9th game, a 113-109 victory over the Chicago Bulls on November 21, 2006. After the Chicago victory, Anthony again tied the club record of six-straight 30 point games failing to break it the second time around as he scored 24 points in only his 16th game last December 6, 2006 in a 98-96 home loss to the Atlanta Hawks. Thus far he is averaging 31.7 points per game through 16 games, making him the NBA's leading scorer.

[edit] International career

Olympic medal record
Men's Basketball
Bronze 2004 Athens Basketball

Anthony was chosen as a member of the 2004 USA Olympic basketball team. On August 23, 2006, Anthony set the US scoring record in a game with 35 points against Italy in the FIBA tournament. This record was previously held by Kenny Anderson with 34 points in 1990.

Off the court, Anthony donates a great deal of time and money to causes in Denver and Baltimore. In Denver, Anthony is a spokesman for Family Resource Centers and hosts an annual Christmas party for underprivileged children, "A Very Melo Christmas". In Baltimore, Anthony hosts an annual 3-on-3 tournament, oversees "HOOD Movement" and is helping fund the revitalization of a local community center for local youth.

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[edit] Trivia

  • Before Anthony joined the 2004 USA Olympic basketball team, he was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher's crew members, duped into believing that Anthony's friends trashed a hotel room for $10,000 in damages. After this prank, Anthony said, "You'll pay for this, Ashton!"
  • In the summer of 2005 he made a cameo appearance on singer Ciara's fourth single, off her debut album, Goodies, entitled And I.
  • Anthony's former penthouse condo in Denver's Golden Triangle neighborhood was featured on the show MTV Cribs. His current home also was featured on MTV Cribs.
  • Anthony became engaged to tv personality and VJ, Alani Vázquez (La La Vázquez) on Christmas Day, December 25, 2004. They are expecting their first child in March.
  • Anthony wears the number 15 on his jersey. According to his official site, “My original number was 22 but when I went to Syracuse that was retired for Dave Bing. So I switched to 15 and then that become my number.”
  • Anthony is the spokesman for several companies. His major sponsorship is with Nike, Inc.'s Michael Jordan line of shoes and apparel. He has had three signature shoes: the Nike Jordan Carmelo 1.5, Air Jordan Carmelo 5.5. and the Carmelo 3
  • Anthony's career high for points in a game is 45 against the Philadelphia 76ers.
  • He also co-owns the Carmelo-Hemelgarn Indy car racing team, whose lone driver is P.J. Chesson. The car itself is named Car-Melo.
  • Anthony made four cameo appearances in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide as the owner of a famous NBA shoe, which was a Jordan-Carmelo shoe. His name was shown during the episode.
  • There was a limited time Carmello Anthony candy bar after he was drafted.
  • Anthony has many tattoos, some of which read Live Now, Die Later, BMORE THE 410, Loyalty,Honesty,Blessed,Dedicated,Delivered, 410 The City Of The Birds, Me Against The World
  • Controversy erupted when Anthony appeared in the notorious Stop Snitchin' video in late 2004 (see witness intimidation). In subsequent interviews, Anthony claimed that his appearance in the video was a joke, the product of his neighborhood friends' making a home movie. Anthony claims the film's message shouldn't be taken seriously.

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Preceded by:
Juan Dixon		 NCAA Basketball Tournament
Most Outstanding Player (men's)
2003		 Succeeded by:
Emeka Okafor
2003 NBA Draft
First Round
LeBron James | Darko Miličić | Carmelo Anthony | Chris Bosh | Dwyane Wade | Chris Kaman | Kirk Hinrich | T. J. Ford | Michael Sweetney | Jarvis Hayes | Mickaël Piétrus | Nick Collison | Marcus Banks | Luke Ridnour | Reece Gaines | Troy Bell | Žarko Čabarkapa | David West | Aleksandar Pavlović | Dahntay Jones | Boris Diaw | Zoran Planinić | Travis Outlaw | Brian Cook | Carlos Delfino | Ndudi Ebi | Kendrick Perkins | Leandro Barbosa | Josh Howard
Second Round

Maciej Lampe | Jason Kapono | Luke Walton | Jerome Beasley | Sofoklis Schortsianitis | Szymon Szewczyk | Mario Austin | Travis Hansen | Steve Blake | Slavko Vraneš | Derrick Zimmerman | Willie Green | Zaza Pachulia | Keith Bogans | Malick Badiane | Matt Bonner | Sani Bečirović | Maurice Williams | James Lang | James Jones | Paccelis Morlende | Kyle Korver | Remon Van de Hare | Tommy Smith | Nedžad Sinanović | Rick Rickert | Brandon Hunter | Xue Yuyang | Andreas Glyniadakis
EA Sports NBA Live Cover Athletes

'95: 1994 NBA Finals action shot | '96: Shaquille O'Neal | '97: Mitch Richmond | '98: Tim Hardaway | '99: Antoine Walker | '00: Tim Duncan | '01: Kevin Garnett | '02: Steve Francis | '03: Jason Kidd | '04: Vince Carter | '05: Carmelo Anthony | '06: Dwyane Wade, Yuta Tabuse (Japanese cover) | '07: Tracy McGrady, Pau Gasol (Spanish cover), Boris Diaw & Tony Parker (French cover), Dirk Nowitzki (German cover)
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