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| Birth Name(s) : Carmelo Anthony |
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Full Carmelo Anthony Biography
Carmelo Kiyan Anthony (born May 29, 1984) is an American professional basketball player at the small forward position for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association and the USA National Team.
His father, after whom Anthony is named, died of cancer when Anthony was 2 years old. He lived in the Red Hook Projects in Brooklyn, New York, for two more years. When Anthony was 8 his family moved to Baltimore, where he began winning local basketball awards. He has two brothers, Robert and Wilford, a sister, Michelle, and half-sister, Daphne. His mother is African-American, and his father was Puerto Rican.
Anthony played one season at Syracuse University. He averaged 22.1 points (16th in the nation, 4th in the Big East) and 10.0 rebounds (19th in the NCAA, 3rd in Big East), in leading the Orangemen to their first ever NCAA tournament title in 2003. He led the team in scoring, rebounding, minutes played (36.4 minutes per game), field goals made and attempted and free throws made and attempted. In the finals game against University of Kansas, Anthony had 20 points and 10 rebounds. Carmelo also earned the tournament's Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors; his efforts included a 33 point game against Texas in the semi-final. Afterward, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim described Anthony as, "...by far, the best player in college basketball. It wasn't even close. Nobody was even close to him last year in college basketball. That's the bottom line."
Some of Anthony's highlights in his time with Syracuse were being Named Second-Team All-America by AP as a freshman, leading his team to a 30-5 record, capturing the school's first ever NCAA title and being the consensus pick for national Freshman of the Year. He was named to the All-Big East First team and was also made the consensus selection for Big East Conference Freshman of the Year.
Denver's post-season berth would be shortlived though as Anthony and the rest of his team were eliminated by the Minnesota Timberwolves in five games.
For the 2005-2006 season, he made five game-winning shots in the last five seconds: at Houston on January 8, 2006; at home versus the Phoenix Suns on January 10, 2006; at Minnesota on February 24, 2006; at Indiana on March 15, 2006; at home versus the Los Angeles Lakers on April 6, 2006 - all were jumpers while shot against Minnesota was a three point field goal - also made a shot in the final seconds to force overtime vs. the Dallas Mavericks on January 6, 2006 and made shots in the final 22 seconds against the Cleveland Cavaliers on January 18, 2006 and the Philadelphia 76ers on March 9, 2006 which gave the Nuggets leads they would never lose.
He has led the Nuggets in the post-season each of his first three seasons. However, they've not gotten past the first round of the playoffs losing each time to the Timberwolves, Spurs and the Clippers. He has appeared in 14 playoff games with averages of 18.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 2.5 apg and 0.9 spg.
On December 16, 2006, Anthony was one of many players involved in the Knicks-Nuggets brawl during a game at Madison Square Garden. Footage shows Anthony punched New York's Mardy Collins in the face and then backed up to mid-court. As a result of his actions, Anthony was suspended for 15 games by NBA commissioner David Stern. Shortly thereafter, the Nuggets signed up Allen Iverson in a bid to form a deadly combination with Anthony. However, the two never really got going together as Iverson started playing with the team at the time when Anthony served his 15-game suspension.
On January 22, 2007, Anthony returned to the court after his 15-game suspension to play against the Memphis Grizzlies, finishing the game with 28 points.
On February 2, 2007, Anthony and fellow teammate J.R. Smith were involved in a car accident. Neither player was injured in the collision and the only details released by the team at this point was that the car Smith was driving belonged to Anthony.
For the second time in 3 years, Anthony and the 6th-seeded Nuggets faced the San Antonio Spurs, the 3rd seeds, in the first round of the playoffs. This time the team was more confident of a good showing as Anthony and Iverson proved that they can co-exist with each other after leading the team to a 10-1 record in April 2007. However, in a virtual repeat of the 2005 first round-playoff between these two teams, the Nuggets immediately stole homecourt advantage by winning Game 1, 95-89 only to lose the next 4 games as they were eliminated in the first round for the 4th straight year. In 5 games, Anthony averaged a team-high 26.8 PPG, 8.6 RPG, 1.2 APG and 1.0 SPG.
In 2004, Anthony also appeared in a video entitled Stop Snitchin', which warned that residents of Baltimore who collaborate with the police would face violence. Anthony later distanced himself from this video.
On January 16, 2006, Anthony was chosen as USA Basketball's Male Athlete of the Year after his showing in the FIBA World Championship.
He was also a member of Team USA that participated in the 2007 FIBA Americas Championship which the team won undefeated going 10-0. Anthony ended up as the tournament's second-leading scorer with a 21.2 ppg average (191 points in 9 games) behind Leandro Barbosa of Brazil while adding 5.2 rpg and 1.4 apg. He also equalled the previous record of 28 points set by teammate Allen Iverson in a qualifying tournament which was broken by James who scored 31 points the in the title-clinching win against Argentina. |
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