This time, Carmelo Anthony is at peace. That wasn’t the case the primary time he contemplated the tip of his profession, again in November 2018. After a weird, head-scratching stint with the Rockets that ended when the workforce unceremoniously forged him off 10 video games into the season, Anthony was pressured to confront life with out basketball. “I ended up being away from the sport for [a year], and that point confirmed me, Oh, that is what [the end] seems like? Nah, I’m not prepared but,” Anthony says throughout a automotive trip on a Might afternoon from midtown Manhattan to his childhood neighborhood of Pink Hook, Brooklyn. “I knew I nonetheless had one thing to provide—that I may assist a workforce if I simply received one other alternative.” -via Sports activities Illustrated / Might 23, 2023
