Carmelo Anthony waves to crowd at Madison Square Garden. Photo Credit: New York Daily News

Power 105 The Breakfast Club’s DJ Envy dropped by Scoop B Radio & Discussed Carmelo Anthony, Odell Beckham and more with RESPECT Magazine’s Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson. Press Play Below To Listen!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Carmelo Anthony is a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder. Last month the Knicks and Thunder engaged in a blockbuster deal that shipped Anthony to the Thunder in exchange for Enes Kanter.

The move merged Anthony with the NBA’s reigning league MVP Russell Westbrook and three-time All NBA forward Paul George.

Anthony will get his first crack at his former team when the Knicks and Thunder tip off at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, OK on Thursday.

Here’s the ultimate Regis Philbin Who Wants to be a Millionaire question: How will Carmelo Anthony be remembered during his time as a New York Knick?

It’s a very complicated dialogues to have. Individually Melo had it made in the Big Apple. A ten-time NBA All Star, Anthony played seven seasons as a Knick where he averaged 24.7 points, posted 7 rebounds and dished 3.2 assists per game.

Anthony was traded to NYC in 2011 for everything but the kitchen sink!  

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Carmelo Anthony (7) is guarded by Houston Rockets guard James. Photo Credit: Sports Illustrated

The Knicks sent Raymond Felton, Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov and three draft picks to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for Anthony, Chauncey Billups and Anthony Carter.

That deal bore fruit to a disaster that lasted longer than a New York Minute. Six years later, the Knicks have only had one 50-win season in the last decade.

For those keeping score at home: the Knicks were 207-269 while Anthony was a member of the team.

During that time, the orange and blue have won only one of four playoff series and missed the postseason each of the past four years.

“His jersey would never get retired,” Power 105’s The Breakfast Club’s DJ Envy told me on a recent episode of Scoop B Radio. “I think that Melo deserves to get his jersey retired.”

Anthony is one of the greatest scorers and purest small forwards to play the game. As a Knick, Anthony broke Bernard King’s longstanding Knicks 61-point single game scoring record and Kobe Bryant’s 60-point mark for the most points ever scored at Madison Square Garden.

DJ Envy doesn’t blame Anthony’s departure from the Knicks. “If I am Melo I would leave,” he said.

“I love Melo. I think Melo being in New York, coming to the Knicks is bad. I think the management is bad and I think they really don’t know what they are doing. I don’t like how they pick players, I don’t like how they respect their players, but I am a Knicks fan and I always have been a Knicks fan.”

With Anthony now in the Knicks’ rearview, the team has built around center, Kristaps Porzingis. In the offseason, they signed Tim Hardaway Jr. and added Michael Beasley.

Knicks fans love the past and are certainly in love with the 90s era of basketball. Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck detailed it in his: With Little to Cheer in the Present, Knicks and Their Fans Trapped in the Past column earlier this year.

What if the Knicks got it together with Melo there?  “Melo is 36 years old still knocking out 25 points a game,” said DJ Envy. 

Power 105’s The Breakfast Club’s DJ Envy and Angela Yee with Oklahoma City Thunder forward Carmelo Anthony. Photo Credit: dmfashionbook

Added DJ Envy of Anthony who turned 33 in May: “It’s not Melo. It’s the team.”

Born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, NY, Anthony lived in the borough for part of his formative years. He relocated to Baltimore, Maryland where he starred at nearby Towson Catholic before transferring to national basketball powerhouse Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, VA.

Anthony’s move to NYC after winning a National Championship at Syracuse and playing seven years with the Denver Nuggets had the makings of a grand coming home party.

No such luck!  Always gracious in interviews, public appearances and even when he was off the clock, Anthony played it cool until the very end.

In a recap I wrote on Anthony’s Pro Camps basketball camp a few years ago, Anthony said: “My window is closing, so I’m trying to get this championship to New York ASAP.”

You wanted to believe it. But it was hard to believe that from 2013-2017 when a guy named LeBron James, one of Anthony’s closest friends, was running the NBA’s Eastern Conference and led both the Miami Heat and the Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA Finals.

Keep in mind: During Anthony’s tenure with the Knicks, he had 72 different teammates. Of that lucky number 72, only Tyson Chandler made an All-Star team during the same season as Melo.

Carmelo Anthony and Phil Jackson. Photo Courtesy of Gospel Today

Coaching changes, trades and a very public feud with former team president Phil Jackson created a recipe for disaster that the team never really recovered from.

Ah yes, then there was the notion that the Knicks would re-live the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles, Tex Winter designed triangle offense. “You can’t put Melo in and run a triangle offense,” said DJ Envy.

“It isn’t going to work. You have to work with everybody. I’ve got two sons and three daughters. What I do with my fifteen year old is not going to work with my four year old. I can’t treat them the same way. I have to take each individual situation and break it down that way.”

Both Melo and the Knicks have moved on. Melo’s parting gift to New York is Hoodie Melo!

If you don’t know what Hoodie Melo is, it is in your best professional interest to google it, you’re missing out. I promise you!

All parties in the Knicks/Anthony melo-drama are turning the page from their seven year marriage and amicable divorce.

All involved are in a new relationship and have new relationship goals. The plot thickens, however when all parties involved will run into each other for the first time while on their date at 8 in Oklahoma City.

Popcorn and slushees please! 

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Oklahoma City Thunder forward Carmelo Anthony. Photo Credit: USA Today Sports/Mark D. Smith

Ronnie Singh, known to gamers as Ronnie 2K checked in with Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson on Scoop B Radio. Press Play Below To Listen

The Oklahoma City Thunder made a splash this offseason when they traded for both Paul George and Carmelo Anthony.

Another offseason occurrence was the birth of Hoodie Melo, Anthony’s workout alter ego.  “It started with a beanie,” Anthony told reporters during the Oklahoma City Thunder’s media day last week.

“Like I was just in the gym and I didn’t have a haircut, and I was like, ‘I’m just gonna go and throw a hat on. I wanted to sweat, and I just started working back out in the summer,” he explained. “From there, it went to a hoodie and it got out, and the phenomenon started.”

The phenomenon was such a big deal that popular video game, NBA 2K released their ratings, gave Carmelo Anthony a 84 overall rating and jokingly gave Hoodie Melo a 98 overall rating.

Carmelo is rated an 84 but #HoodieMelo would become best current player in #NBA2K18. Think @TheRealJRSmith would agree… pic.twitter.com/hzijm9A7OM

— NBA 2K 2K18 (@NBA2K) August 19, 2017

What gives?

Many thought Hoodie Melo was just a summer workout thing. Not so fast! 

Not only did Melo rock a charcoal grey hoodie under his jersey during OKC media day, but on Sunday, during the Oklahoma City Thunder’s 10th annual Blue & White Scrimmage, he wore a sleeveless hoodie. 

And yes, Carmelo Anthony is scrimmaging in a sleeveless hoodie pic.twitter.com/FWUl83JAS4

— Erik Horne (@ErikHorneOK) October 1, 2017

So hoodie Melo is really a thing, huh?

“Well yeah he really is a thing,” says NBA 2K’s face and digital strategist, Ronnie Singh told me on Scoop B Radio.

Better known to gamers as Ronnie 2K, Singh breaks it down:

“He is an imaginary character in our game at this moment. Meaning they’re not exactly sure what we are going to do with him and of course, you know there are rights issues with that too. So we will see what happens, but Hoodie Melo is definitely something that is interesting to us, so we will see.”

Sep 25, 2017; Oklahoma City, OK, USA; Oklahoma City Thunder forward Paul George (13), guard Russell Westbrook (0) and forward Carmelo Anthony (7) pose for photos with head coach Billy Donovan during the Oklahoma City Thunder Media Day at Chesapeake Energy Arena. Mandatory Credit: Mark D. Smith-USA TODAY Sports ORG XMIT: USATSI-363579 ORIG FILE ID: 20170925_kek_ax3_135.JPG

Time will tell whether Anthony will actually wear a hoodie in game. But the Thunder have a lot to cheer about with the acquisition of George and Anthony.The icing on the cake happened on Friday, when Russell Westbrook signed a five-year, $205 million deal with OKC, the largest contract in NBA history. Westbrook will make $569,512 per game. 

As for Anthony, the Thunder’s new starting power forward, the birth of Hoodie Melo was inspired by his motivtion for the game, particularly as he was looking to turn the page, post- Knicks. “For me, it was just about showing a different focus that I have,” he said earlier this week.

“A different motivationand just locking in to what I have to do. And locking myself into the gym, and locking myself into focusing in on my body.”

Added Anthony:

“Because I didn’t know what was going to happen. It was so much going on that was surrounding me that I just wanted to find a way that I can just focus in, and that’s when Hoodie Melo was created.”

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