Carmelo Anthony officially announces his retirement from basketball

Carmelo Anthony, the ninth leading scorer in NBA history, announced his retirement from basketball after a brilliant career.

Carmelo Anthonyninth-leading scorer in NBA history and ten-time All-Star, He announced his retirement from basketball on Monday..

“The time has come for me to say goodbye to the track on which I made my name and to the sport that gave me purpose in life and pride,” he said in a farewell video posted on his social media.

Chosen in 2021 in the list of the 75 greatest NBA players of all timeAnthony, who will turn 39 next week, was an extraordinary offensive talent on the courts but leaves professional competition with the thorn in his side of not having won an NBA ring or played in the Finals.

However, Anthony did succeed in a big way and was an unforgettable emblem in the US team, with which he was triple Olympic champion in Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Anthony played 19 seasons in the NBAbut he had been off the courts for a year since he did not find a team for this 2022-2023 course.

Before coming to the NBA in the famous promotion of 2003 led by LeBron James, Anthony was proclaimed champion of the NCAA with the University of Syracuse.

The Denver Nuggets chose him at number three in the Draft, behind LeBron (Cleveland Cavaliers) and Darko Milicic (Detroit Pistons), and he spent seven and a half seasons in the Colorado franchise.

The Nuggets, currently only one win away from the first Finals in their history, had the best result with Anthony in the Western final in 2009 in which they lost against the Los Angeles Lakers of Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol, who that year would win the first of his two rings together.

In February 2011, the forward packed his bags and landed in his native New York to play for the Knicks who rolled out the red carpet for him as the star they sorely needed to turn the franchise around.

As of 2017, he began his journey through different teams: the Oklahoma City Thunder (2017-2018), the Houston Rockets (2018-2019), the Portland Trail Blazers (2019-2021) and the Los Angeles Lakers (2021-2022).

With 28,289 total points in the regular seasonCarmelo Anthony is the ninth leading scorer in NBA history behind only LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki, Wilt Chamberlain and Shaquille O’Neal.

Thank you #STAYME7O pic.twitter.com/4au8cOd13s

— Carmelo Anthony (@carmeloanthony) May 22, 2023

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