Carmelo Anthony Reflects on the Moment He Knew It Was Time to Retire [Video]
Since its beginning, Carmelo Anthony‘s podcast, 7 PM In Brooklyn, has garnered a lot of interest from NBA fans. As season two of the show closes, he had another player that he battled with during his NBA career join him as a guest, Rudy Gay. They talked about his 17 years in the NBA and continued to fine-tune his game as he aged in the Association.
Carmelo Anthony agreed and chimed in on the younger players aging the older players, announcing how they were fans of them when they were kids or subtle jabs like Michael Porter Jr. gave Carmelo Anthony while he was in Oklahoma City, he recalled.
“Michael Porter is guarding me,” Anthony said. “I catch him on like the right elbow and just like catch it, post, quick jab, go left and lay it up. He like, ‘damn Unc, I ain’t know you still had it.’”
Rudy Gay mentioned that when they played against Houston’s Jabari Smith, he paid homage while aging the 2K legend.
“We played Houston Jabari Smith he had just got there, he checked in it’s like the fourth quarter and he was like ‘I thought you would try to come at me I used to watch you growing up,’ I’m like damn,” Gay told Melo and crew.
But the one saying that Melo and Rudy both could agree on that bothered them the most was simple.
“The worst is(when you hear) ‘I didn’t know you still had that.’ We are back in Denver Michael Porter is guarding me,” Anthony said. “I catch him on like the right elbow and just like catch it, post, quick jab, go left and lay it up. He like, ‘damn Unc, I ain’t know you still had it.’ “I told Russ I think I was with OKC, ‘Champ, right back! Bring it right back champ!’”
Melo wanted to prove a point to the young Porter jr after he tried to pay homage.
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