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Bill I love you channel 80 you tune in we appreciate you it's time for us to jump right into it stop it straight talk brought to you by straight talk wireless so you heard about it if you have been under a rock all day long or away from Twitter Carmelo Anthony broke his silence with the one the only Stephen a smith on 1st Take this morning and before we even get into it stocks and Pat back an arborist of studios for even get into the sound I'm going to cop to it if you don't know about my feelings when it comes to one Carmelo Anthony I am biased in all shapes sizes forms when it comes to that young man I was one of the 1st people that I covered in terms of being sent out to go cover a sporting event when he won the national championship in New Orleans I want to say the 1st time I met Linda Cohn too by the way in an elevator she was so nice also home I got to talk to Linda Combe but I digress from that point on where it was Marquette Syracuse Kansas Texas and you know what mellows freshman year and only year at Syracuse was to him you know it culminating in and national championship him reaching the playoffs in his rookie year which you know Le Bron James did not do and don't worry we'll get into the Bron James before right here as well the Carmelo Anthony thing for me has been a vibe for the last 1514 years however long he's been in the n.b.a. These last couple of years have been kind of sad awkward to watch as a fan of his game I think the drop dead score is down the Wilkins is my favorite player of all time of course Mike is the god if you know. I live in Chicago who watched the Chicago Bulls It was it was almost as you know given that you were supposed to like Mike and enjoyed his career. But I've always had a thing for for crazy scores who probably didn't make it as far as some people thought they would and Carmelo Anthony is falling right into that category these last couple of years like I mentioned been awkward to watch they've been a little troubling specially when you when you try to see a guy fit into the last years of his career gracefully there's nothing graceful about this and Stephen a Smith pulled no punches when talking to Carmelo Anthony and of course it started after the New York Knicks situation where he becomes the Houston Rockets and we see him in those weird colors and wondering what's going to happen with Chris Paul and James Harden and Carmelo Anthony on the same team and this is what he had to say as far as being caught off guard when he was let go in both Oklahoma City and Houston was big. It was the one from oh this is a piece that we are we want we need a we've talked to we've been talking for 3 years 4 years it was trying to get me to come so. I finally went out and said Ok this is the piece that when these I get there. I'm thinking everything is good I don't every day I got to do and never missed a practice in all my work I was you know real professional everybody I don't think is one person. I wasn't a professional and what I had to do with my work and then it's come I just didn't understand come from. First can we talk about how can we make this better what can we do to you know to face what can I do to win that he had in mind that he wanted to come to me so about releasing me and let me go. Out in like I don't want to now if you hear it in his voice you can hear the learn some things from his time only not only have the end of the New York Knicks run but also the Oklahoma City run where you know there's the famous quote of him at the podium where Paul George is walking in and you know people ask him if he's going to come off the bench. He says to Paul they've got to come off the bench and you see him laughing and kind of you know thumbing his nose at the idea of coming off the bench but that seemed to follow mellow when it came to not just narrative but actual application of his talent was he going to be a guy that was willing to come off the bench and we seen this with stars who don't know when it's their time to kind of be more aware of their talents their abilities and where a league is trending a where league is going but the fact that he's taking us behind the scenes in this sit down with Stephen a smith on how things actually manifest themselves I think I'm all for because a lot of guys have things gone in the background and we as fans we as observers or we as reporters are so-called journalists only get half of the story now does it help you to do this and we'll talk about we keep your goals wrong with the David Griffin Le Bron James situation in a couple of segments but in talking about Melo and how he felt and how everything was handled Stephen a smith asked him When did he learn that he was no longer going to be a Houston Rockets and how did you learn I was actually ends and it's only 0 in my room right before the game and I want to speak that night because I have. Just me and I was going to let me know what I can do I am here to help and they let me know what I got to do you know he came in and he was like look at your service is no longer needed and I'm like I'm. Going to you know. Just not work now and you've got to figure out you've got to figure out something to do on some not to do I got a game tomorrow. Tomorrow So then I started taking even deeper on like a minute I was going to make the rotation and make a man rotation as we found something I've already started to accept the fact that I got to come off the bench which was very hard for me. And I moved on from that are you telling me that I can make. On this team as a team. In basketball say it out there's a couple of sayings actually cole world is one of them and the other one that I think applies his life comes at you fast whether you're ready for it or not and we have extended an invite to Daryl Morey. The Rockets president of basketball operations from the show so you can you know state his case if he so chooses to do so but in the end Carmelo Anthony got hit with the politics of basketball at the worst possible time of his career when his career was on the down side when he was outside of his window when analytics and all the other things that kind of push players who should mid-range contested isolation jump shots like him and had done that and that's the other thing too by the way you know I think Melo is going to be a victim not only of the time he played but who he played with in terms of his competition and I've got my mellow talking points ready I'll always had them like I said unabashedly so I am a mellow fan as man got eliminated 5 different times by the eventual world champion in the n.b.a. We're talking about one of the greatest scores not just in his generation because I used to say that but one of the greatest scores in league history believe what he's like 8 170100 points ways from being the top 10 score of all time and say what you want about what he wasn't and there have been a lot of detractors and a lot of people who have been very verbal about Melo I'll never forget when George call was writing his book into his book store and sitting down with him at a Vegas Summer League working for n.b.a. Radio you know years ago and George called spilled the beans about the deal because the deal had been freshly the New York Knicks had signed Melo to his 9 figure deal and he talked about the things that Melo was going to have to be that he hadn't been before that well this is this is the endgame this is this is what we see this is this is the result of all those years of Melo being allowed to be mellow which is a generational type score but also the people who maybe didn't push him enough or coached him hard enough or if he wanted to be coached so this is not something for me where . Sit back and I just go boo hoo for Melo because I'm a fan of Melo but I understand that there are different things at play here and he went on to speak about ego and all the other things offish coddle Bulls fans out there for him he dropped something on you that I was aware of and you heard rumblings of it going on and if you're if you were in the city of Chicago you knew exactly what was happening but he got into it so well we'll do that coming up here that that was straight talk wireless everything feel less only at Wal-Mart if you want to jump in it it say is e.s.p.n. Is the phone of a day 7293776 what Stephen a Smith interview with Carmelo Anthony do for you or to you as an n.b.a. Fan as a Melo fan did it change your perception of him at all coming up we'll hear more from Melo in his sit down with Stephen a and if he's at peace if his career is over that's next on spending company I'm Jason Gough this is e.s.p.n. Radio were brought to you by Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwiches. 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Career just short of winning a championship as the best player or one of the best players in the league for a you know a few years there was a time there that 1st New York valiance where Carmelo Anthony every Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon wherever time zone you were in was must see t.v. Must watch t.v. Put 40 on the wall down on the bulls every single time he stepped in the Guard as Jimmy Butler made his. Bones guarding Carmelo Anthony that was the 1st time the Jimmy Butler really got a look from Tom Thibodeau an extended look after he you know effectively slowed down I will say shut down but slow down Carmelo Anthony on a few possessions and I think that's when the legacy of Jimmy Butler was born in the eyes of. The star maker as well Kobe Bryant is mentioned on the top as guards if not the top as guard for him in his life was Carmelo Anthony from block to Ark I don't think that you could find you know many players who are at the level in terms of prolific scores in the n.b.a. And his generation that were better than Carmelo Anthony but we find him where he is in charge at things to say about Carmelo Anthony at the end of the playoffs where he mentioned I actually was in the offseason here not too long ago couple of weeks ago a few weeks ago where he said that in playing with Carmelo the only thing that I think he thinks help Melo back was his need to score 30 plus points a game no matter what and not feeling out the game some way sometimes that's why Chauncey Billups not only is no cheap but a respected point guard in the n.b.a. Annals because of his understanding an i.q. Of the game Chauncey while with those bad boys Part 2 version of the pistons I want to championship was a guy who knew we get the ball too and also more importantly knew how to keep the ball away from you know I think that's important job for point guard is any but the knock on Carmelo Anthony was that he didn't want to win as much as he wanted to shine Well yeah the answer that question was posed by Stephen a Smith What was the goal in the long term for not only the end of the New York career but the Oklahoma City and Houston career as well like at this point. I don't . Want to. Use and don't want to. Go so when it's only thing left for me to do is when. I want to play and I want to go when exams. Also want to play I want to get back out on a court I missed a game I was away for. And again. I have a whole season. I got back I got I was going to grow as a person as a man and I deserve a novice out on one another so I would never stop loving again until I decide to say this is over and I compare. That hurts I just talked about this in a pod cast not too long ago a couple days ago I should say locally here about whatever industry it is when you feel that industry doesn't love you back and how you bounce back from the we've all had our professional you know fails in our professional. Moments where we have felt the best and specially if you doing something that you love you know we live in history of radio t.v. Guys and girls out there when when you feel like the game doesn't love you back that's a that's a tough dark place to be and especially if you're an athlete because you have a final opportunity to not only capitalize on your talents mana terribly but also to make sure that you're enjoying yourself like there was you know all the All-Star games all those things probably went by way too fast and now you've been dropped on your head where nobody wants you in the n.b.a. It was as well the feeling be like if this was it if you don't lead another in the Age How are you going to handle that I think I would be. As good I know it's going to be I think I would be at peace. Because right now I'm in limbo and I wake up every day. Say my resume go work do there's a b. And c. But I know that this would be. I would have to be at peace with that and work on that knowing that I won't be in limbo anymore and I can move on to do other things . You know that I need to focus on right now I can't do those things because I don't know what team I'm going to be on I don't know what situation I'm going to be on so it's hard for me to focus on anything else other day stand in going to the gym training and keep my body right. We've all known the person or maybe even the person who didn't know when the relationship was over right and it sounds like Carmelo Anthony is still not coming to grips with his relationship with the n.b.a. Being over because the n.b.a. Still talks to him still calls him on the phone still invites over to some of the barbecues you know the all star Vince I mean you know you up next from the n.b.a. Yeah are you up from the n.b.a. Is wild by the way because you know you don't answer you don't jump in the shower recorded hist