Carmelo screwed Himself in Knicks – Nuggets Brawl
Carmelo, what have you done?
Aside from leaving one big-ass hole in my fantasy team, you single-handedly destroyed everything you have worked for from being a pretender to an All-Star player after that sucker punch you unloaded on Mardy Collins.
Yep, you read it, Carmelo Anthony had everything going for him before that fateful Nuggets-Knicks brawl at Madison Square Garden. And I’m sure, even though Madison Square Garden is used to big fights such as the Hulk Hogan – Andre the Giant wrestling match or those legendary Muhammad Ali title bouts, THIS was not the fight MSG had in mind.
Coming to this NBA Basketball season, Carmelo Anthony was looking to equal or even surpass the level of the Kobe Bryants and the Kevin Garnetts.
Coming to this NBA Basketball season, Melo wanted to leave his draft mates in the dust as he goes for the upper echelons of super stardom. So what did Melo do?
Well, Carmelo Anthony became the best player on the United States men’s basketball team. Here, he was able to change his image from a ”me first” kind of guy to the team player he was before the now infamous MSG melee.
He was outshining draft mates, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, in this NBA Basketball season, leading the league in scoring and carrying the Denver Nuggets to one of the more solid starts in the young NBA Basketball season.
And after spending $1.5 million to open a youth center with his name on it in Baltimore on Thursday, Anthony, 22, appeared to have the entire face of NBA Basketball in the palm of his hand.
But with one close-fisted punch in a fateful Saturday night, he might have undone all the good he had created. And instead of being recognized as one of the greats, he’s now part of the cancer that is bringing the sport that I love down.
Well, for what it’s worth, guys like him, Allen Iverson and Rasheed Wallace make this sport that I love THAT much more worth watching anyway so I guess I can handle another problem child in the NBA. I wouldn’t count on him winning any humanitarian awards anytime soon though.
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