James L. Edwards III: Knicks show Carmelo Anthony on the Jumbotron following a nice video montage for the newly-named Hall of Famer. -via Bluesky / April 8, 2025

Draymond Green: This is Team USA. That’s the best basketball team in the world. And Melo was the go-to scorer. And so I think—just even with that—I’ll never forget. We had a little situation in Brazil, and after that happened, we had like a two-and-a-half-hour meeting. I call Jerry Colangelo “Doc.” So Doc is up there, Coach K says something, and then Doc just keeps going on and on and on, man. And we’re all just sitting there, taking it on the chin. Whole team. Sitting there, quiet, taking it. Finally, after like two hours, Melo was like: ‘Hey Jerry, we got it. We’re all grown men. Let’s move on now. If this happens again, someone’s going to have to go home. You’ll be kicked out of the Olympics.’ And that ended it. That was it. That was the end of it. -via YouTube / April 8, 2025

“Why not?” That was Carmelo Anthony’s response when asked if his No. 7 jersey should be retired by the Knicks. Anthony was at the Final Four at the Alamodome on Saturday for the announcement that he was being inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. “I would love to see that,” the 10-time NBA All-Star said. “For me, it’s like, ‘Why wait?’ If you got to think about it then cool, just let it be.” -via New York Post / April 5, 2025