Carmelo Anthony is one of the most iconic NBA players in the last 20 years, becoming one of the best scorers in the association, as well as a controversial figure for the way he managed his career.
He didn’t have the easiest path to the NBA, and Melo had to deal with certain situations that were bad but he didn’t realize at the time, including racism in high school.
“A lot of people don’t know, I got kicked out of Towson Catholic my junior year because I had braids,” Anthony told Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on All the Smoke (14:40 mark).
“It was racism and I didn’t know I was part of racism at that time.”
Despite leading this team to an incredible 26-3 record, that didn’t matter, and Melo was expelled from Towson. In his junior year, he became Baltimore’s County Player of the Year, All-Metropolitan Player of the Year, and earned Baltimore Catholic League Player of the Year honors.
“You’re walking around and the monsignor and archdiocese are looking at you like, ‘you gotta take your hair out.’ I’m like, ‘no, I’m not doing that.’ My tie was crooked, you got detention,” Anthony explained. “They were picking on me.”
“By the time my junior year ended, I had so many detentions accumulated that I had to come back that summer in order to get my report card,” Anthony said. “I’m like, I’m done with that. I’m not about to come in the summer to scrub tables and wash books – it’s summertime. So I got kicked out.”
Melo would take a different route after that year, the future Hall of Famer decided to join Oak Hill, where he took his game to the next level and starred in big duels with other good prospects like LeBron James.
Carmelo Anthony Didn’t Believe He Would Make It To The NBA
Even though Anthony was already great when he joined college, he didn’t believe he would make it to the NBA. Melo admitted that he played for money during his youth, but after spending one year at Syracuse, the forward made a decision and entered the NBA Draft, where he was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in 2003.
After all these years, Anthony has earned All-Star honors 10 times while being selected to the All-NBA Second Team two times and four times to the All-NBA Third Team. Even though his career didn’t pan out the way he would have preferred, Anthony had a decent run in the league, and even though he’s still trying to get a new chance, there’s no doubt that he’s a total legend.
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