He was named to All-NBA Third Team for the second straight year. [79] He finished as the leading vote-getter among Western Conference forwards (1,723,701 votes) and second in overall voting to Kobe Bryant (2,004,940 votes) among all Western Conference players. NBA All-Rookie Team, LeBron James Wins 200304 got milk? He had already missed three games in late December with a sore elbow. [229] On February 9, Anthony scored 23 points against the Orlando Magic and moved past Oscar Robertson into 12th place on the NBA all-time career scoring list. "All he did through middle school and high school was go to school and work out. [16] Anthony played at the USA Basketball Youth Development Festival where he helped the East Team win the silver medal. He played ten games for Houston, starting twice, but he was held out of the last three for what the club called an unspecified "illness. [29] Afterwards, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim described Anthony as "[] by far, the best player in college basketball. In that game, he scored 19 points and won the Sprite Slam Jam dunk contest. 4. [20] James scored 36 points, while Anthony scored 34 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Oak Hill to a 7266 win. Wilt Chamberlain has dropped at least 70 points in six games. After the Pistons blew an early 17-point lead against the Syracuse Nationals and eventually the game, 92-91, The "Bird" suggested that more than one teammate had conspired with gamblers to fix the outcome. [57] Anthony was named to the All-NBA Third Team. On June 23, 2014, Anthony informed the Knicks that he would opt out of his contract and become a free agent. [7], Anthony was born in the Red Hook housing projects in Brooklyn, New York City. [150], On February 16, 2014, Anthony played in his seventh All-Star Game as a starter for the East All-Stars. For charitable contributions totaling $4,282,000, Anthony was listed as number eight in "The Giving Back 30 List of Largest Charitable Donations by Celebrities in 2006". Or write about sports? [264] Michael Eric Dyson married Anthony and La La on July 10, 2010, at Cipriani's in New York City before 320 guests. August 3, 2022 by Rob Navarro. [240] On January 28, 2022, he scored 19 points in a 117114 loss to the Charlotte Hornets to become the 9th player in NBA history to reach 28,000 points. [123] Anthony later extended the record to 31 games after he scored 25 points in a 9686 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks. [284] He also appeared in the music video for Common's song "Be" from the album Be in 2005. 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[54] All five of those game-winners were made on jump shots, while the shot against Minnesota was a three-point field goal. The wife of disgraced Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine had sex with numerous players over many years, according to an explosive affidavit by one of the ball boys Fine is . [83] It was the first time since the 198788 NBA season that the Nuggets finished with at least 50 wins in a season. He played one season of college .more. The 2009 NBA Draft was a deep class with multiple future MVPs and several players who will likely go on to the Hall of Fame. [120] On January 7, 2013, Anthony received his second Player of the Week for games played from December 31, 2012, to January 6, 2013. [108][109] This also matched a franchise-playoff high for scoring in a single playoff game, tied with Alex English. The Nuggets won the Northwest Division and placed second in the Western Conference, finishing the season with a franchise record-tying 54 wins (5428 overall). This led to a historic stretch of games by Lin, and a period of basketball hysteria known as Linsanity. 56 NBA/ABA Players Table; Draft Career Totals Shooting Per Game; Rk Player Year Rd Overall From To G MP FG FGA 3P 3PA FT FTA ORB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS FG% 3P% FT% MP PTS TRB AST; 1: Rafael Addison: 1986: 2: 39: 1987: 1997: 379: 4. Hailing from North Carolina State, Thompson was drafted first overall in the 1975 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. [262], Anthony has two brothers, Robert and Wilford, and a half-sister, Daphne. He sold his New York property in 2020. The week was highlighted by a pair of 40-point games, first in a loss to Portland (45 points, seven rebounds, four assists) on January 1, and then in a victory over Orlando (40 points, six rebounds and six assists) on January 5. [34] He made his NBA regular season debut on October 29, 2003, in an 8072 home win against the San Antonio Spurs. Clutch, it would have to be Anthony. [182], During the 2017 off-season, after multiple conflicts with the then-team president Phil Jackson, Anthony demanded a trade. Derrick Coleman was the top overall pick of the 1990 draft. After winning the Rookie of the Month award for the Western Conference in the month of April, Anthony became the fourth player in NBA history to capture all six of the Rookie of the Month awards in a season. [248] Anthony posted averages of 11.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game in eight contests. [129] He also became only the third NBA player to score at least 40 points on at least 60% field-goal shooting in three consecutive games, joining King and Michael Jordan. [84][85] For the series, Anthony averaged 22.5 points, 9.5 rebounds (playoff career-high), 2.0 assists and 0.5 steals per game. Through 32 G League games this season, the 6-foot-6 wing is taking 7.1 3-point attempts per game and hitting 36.7 . [196][197][198] On November 15, Rockets general manager Daryl Morey announced that the team was "parting ways" with Anthony, but had not released him. 2007. mentally stimulating diversions. Their son, Kiyan Carmelo Anthony, was born on March 7, 2007. [168], While Anthony ended the season with an average of 21.8 ppg (1,573 points in 72 games), below his 25.2 ppg average entering the season, he set a career-high 4.2 apg average (299 assists in 72 games),[169] the first and only time that he averaged over 4.0 apg in his career. On March 19, 2018, in a 132125 victory over the Toronto Raptors, Anthony scored 15 points to up his career total to 25,289, thereby moving past Reggie Miller into 19th place in the NBA career scoring ladder. We present them here for purely educational purposes. He has worked for Arizona PBS, Arizona Sports 98.7 . [130] On April 7, 2013, Anthony scored 36 points and 12 rebounds, nine offensive, as the Knicks tallied their 12th straight win in a 125120 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Took me 5 years to get that gorilla off my back, it's a great feeling." [178] Anthony played 19 minutes, scored 10 points on a 4-of-8 shooting including 26 on three-pointers and grabbed three rebounds in the All-Star Game. The new FanDuel promo code is here just in time for today's NBA on TNT slate. The two made up quite the mesmerizing QB-WR duo as Pickett threw a record-breaking 42 touchdowns that season, 17 of which landed in Addison's hands. [82] He played in 77 games during the regular season, finishing as the NBA's fourth-leading scorer with 25.7 points per game, and had career-highs in rebounds per game (7.4) and steals per game (1.3). For the week, he averaged a conference-best 32.0 points and a seventh-best 11.5 rebounds per game. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Anthony scored 21 points against Argentina, making 3-of-14 field goals and 13-of-13 in free throws, setting USA Olympic game records for made free throws and free throw percentage. The Nuggets finished seventh place in the Western Conference (one spot higher than they finished the previous season). Buddy Boeheim, G/F, Syracuse: Detroit Pistons Lester Quinones, G, Memphis: Golden State Warriors Tevin Brown, G, Murray State: Indiana Pacers Trevor Hudgins, G, NW Missouri State: Houston Rockets Shareef O'Neal, F, LSU: Los Angeles Lakers Scotty Pippen Jr., G, Vanderbilt: Los Angeles Lakers Cole Swider, F, Syracuse: Los Angeles Lakers Deseret News Publishing Co. (May 5, 2005). [252], Anthony plays the small forward position, but he is also capable of playing power forward. [291] He also participated in a merchandising cooperation with Nickelodeon for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise,[292] where he has several guest appearances, namely in the 2016 action film[293] and as a comic character in the Amazing Adventures spin-off comics to the 2012 TV series. YEAR PLAYER UNIVERSITY; 2022: Christian Reeves: Duke: 2022: Devin Ree: Louisville: 2022: Judah Mintz: Syracuse: 2022: Chris Livingston: Kentucky: 2022: Jeremy Gregory . [202], On November 19, 2019, Anthony was signed by the Portland Trail Blazers to a one-year, non-guaranteed deal. Syracuse/Philadelphia: 1958-1972: Minneapolis/Los Angeles: 1957-1969: Boston: 1956-1969: Boston: 1956-1966: St. Louis Hawks . [14] He had another sister, Michelle, who died in 2010. Despite the injuries, Anthony was able to lead the Knicks to their first playoff win since 2001. This was the first time that Anthony scored over 30 points since February 25, 2017, when he was playing for the New York Knicks. As ridiculous as it sounds, professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics, Jaylen Brown was once at risk of not making the NBA draft because he was considered "too smart.". Throughout his nine year professional NBA career, he was a four-time NBA All-Star, the 1979 All-Star Game MVP, averaged 22.7 points and 4.1 rebounds per game and was Michael Jordan's role model growing up. [33], Anthony's NBA career began on June 26, 2003, when he was chosen third overall in the 2003 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets. Anthony has played in the Olympics for the US national team a record four times, winning a bronze medal with the 2004 squad and gold medals on the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic teams. Anthony is also a fan of English football club Arsenal. Denver advanced to the Conference Finals for the first time since 1985 but was eliminated, 42, by the eventual NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers on his birthday. Syracuse assistant coaches Adrian Autry, Allen Griffin. Anthony won Player of the Week honors three times during the season (November 2026; November 27 December 3; and February 511),[76][77] and received Player of the Month honors for April. Dennis Rodman Career earnings: $27 million Dennis Rodman was one of the most notorious. [249] In the gold medal game against Serbia, Anthony collared seven rebounds to finish with 125 total rebounds in US Olympic history, passing Robinson as Team USA's all-time leader in most rebounds. [215] Anthony scored six points in the Trail Blazers' 125112 win against the Rockets on January 29, and passed Kevin Garnett for 17th place in the NBA's all-time scoring list with a total of 26,073 points. The Washington Post's Molly Hensley-Clancy obtained police records that show Morant was accused of punching the boy "12-13 times" during a pickup game at the NBA star's house last summer.