Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Anthony
Carmelo Kyam Anthony is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School and Oak Hill Academy before playing college basketball at Syracuse. In Anthony's freshman season, he led the Orangemen to their first ever National Championship and was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Anthony then entered the 2003 NBA draft where he was selected with the third overall pick by the Denver Nuggets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth29 May 1984
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We should have put them away a little earlier than we did. They stuck around in the fourth quarter for a little bit, I'm just glad we got the win.
Both have given us a lot of intensity. Especially with Reggie coming off the bench. Reggie gives us energy and defensive pressure down low.
This season I came in with a clean slate. I didn't have any off-court issues to worry about. I was able to get focused on basketball. Everybody in my circle, I told them I was on a mission this year.
Tonight we stuck to our game plan which was to get out in the open court. We just needed to get back to playing basketball and having fun.
We had a great preseason. But it's over with.
I got some treatment (Saturday). I got some rest. I got a lot of treatment. I got some ice and massages on my side. They said it was going to hurt. . . . It keeps getting banged up. I just got to fight through it.
I didn't mind sitting out in the fourth at all. We did a good job of holding a lead and we held their starters to just 29 points.
I didn't get hit in my nose, more around my eye, and across the bridge of my nose. I didn't feel it in my nose, I felt it in my forehead.
I don't even know what happened out there, it was all so fast.
I don't know what it is about Memphis, but we always seem to come out and play good against them.
I couldn't sleep last night due to the pain. I tried to go out there and play tonight, but by the third quarter it started tightening up on me.
My first season, I was just happy to be in the playoffs. Last year, I think we did OK against San Antonio. We didn't do much to win. We learned from that. I think this is the year that's going to separate us.
Of course it was a disappointment at first, having that as one of my goals at the beginning of the season. But at the end of the day you and everybody else knows how the West was.
On the defensive end, they really turned up the pressure on us.