Carmelo Anthony sat on the dais inside the news conference room at the Alamodome with a smile splashed across his face. A few hours earlier, his inclusion into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame had been announced.
Carmelo Anthony sat on the dais inside the news conference room at the Alamodome with a smile splashed across his face.
A few hours earlier, his inclusion into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame had been announced.
He was still floating.
“This is it,” the prolific scoring forward said. “This is it. It don’t get no better than this. It don’t get greater than this. All of those things, those accomplishments that you have mentioned, this just puts a cap on that and it makes it all worth the while.”
The college basketball national champion, 10-time NBA All-Star and three-time Olympic gold medalist was joined in the 2025 class by Dwight Howard, WNBA legends Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles, Chicago Bulls coach and two-time college basketball champion Billy Donovan, Miami Heat owner Micky Arison and NBA referee Danny Crawford.
Howard and Anthony were actually inducted twice, as members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team, also known as the “Redeem Team.”
That group won gold at the Beijing Games after recent disappointments in previous international competition.
