The info had leaked just under three months ago. It’s now official: NBC is going to welcome Carmelo Anthony Among his consultants next season! The future Hall of Famer confirmed on Saturday that it would be there for the start of the school year in October. “Melo” will thus take place alongside a team already made up of Jamal Crawford and Reggie Miller and commentators Mike Tricio and Noah Eagle.
Carmelo Anthony will be present on set at least once a week throughout the season, included playoffs, and even more if affinities.
Even if he has not won an NBA title, the 10th best scorter in the history of the League has a beautiful record, such as having been Talle-Star ten times, three times Olympic champion, NCAA champion or selected in six All-NBA teams, and will therefore have many things to share to help decrypt the broadcast matches on NBC.
The loop is completed
The former Nuggets, Knicks, Thunder, Rockets, Blazers and Lakers player begins in any case to get impatient at the idea of starting this new adventure, he who only illustrated himself in the exercise in his podcast, entitled “7pm in Brooklyn”.
” I adore ! It’s really an exciting moment for me. I believe that there is just building a team, and returning to an aspect oriented towards the team spirit ”he said about his motivations by joining the NBC “pool”. “Talking about the game, telling the game, making the” why “understand behind what many people and many players do during a match. The game inside the game, I think we have to talk about it. ”
For Carmelo Anthony, it is “a fair return of things” after dedicating more than twenty years of his life to this discipline that he is now able to analyze before a large audience. After more than twenty years of absence, it is also a homecoming for NBC which will again be able to cover the news of the NBA thanks to the distribution of the new TV contract signed with the League. From this point of view, it is also for Carmelo Anthony, who grew up looking at the NBA of the 90s dominated by Michael Jordan on this same channel.
“Look at the NBA on NBC when I was young, shaped my love for this game. Today, I am delighted to join the NBC Sports family. I have always used my voice to help develop the game, and I can’t wait to bring fans a new perspective while we are entering a new nba cover and programming era ”he added.
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