Carmelo Anthony will join NBC Sports and Peacock’s coverage of the NBA next season as a studio analyst, writes Aidan Berg of NBC. He’s expected to be in the studio one or more nights per week when the league returns to NBC this fall.
Anthony confirmed his new job today in an interview with Ahmed Fareed of NBC Sports during the network’s coverage of the Kentucky Derby (Twitter video link from NBC Sports).
“Watching the NBA on NBC growing up shaped my love for the game,” Anthony said. “Now, I’m thrilled to join the NBC Sports family. I’ve always used my platform to help grow the game, and I’m excited to bring fans a fresh perspective as we usher in a new era of NBA coverage and programming.”
Anthony, who was recently announced as part of this year’s class for the Naismith Hall of Fame, retired in 2022 after playing 19 NBA seasons. He was a 10-time All-Star, three-time Olympic gold medalist and a member of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team.
Anthony was selected by the Nuggets with the third pick in the 2003 draft and played for the Knicks, Thunder, Rockets, Trail Blazers and Lakers as well. He was the league’s top scorer during the 2012/13 season while playing for New York and finished third in the MVP voting that year. Anthony completed his career with 28,289 points, putting him 10th on the NBA’s all-time scoring list.
Before coming to the NBA, Anthony turned in a legendary freshman season at Syracuse, leading the school to the 2003 national championship and earning national Freshman of the Year and Second-Team All-America honors.
Anthony spoke to Fareed about the type of analysis he plans to contribute to NBC’s coverage.
“Talking the game, speaking the game, figuring out what’s the ‘why’ on what a lot of people are doing, what a lot of players are doing in the game,” he said. “The game within the game, I think, needs to be talked about.”
Anthony is the latest addition to the NBC Sports team, which already includes Mike Tirico and Noah Eagle as the top play-by-play announcers for NBA coverage and Jamal Crawford and Reggie Miller as game analysts.
Yawn.
Do you think they should normalize scoring records since there is so much offense these days? Like is Carmelo points really worth like 1.25x more? Otherwise people can beat the scoring record in a season by shooting 100 3 points…makes you question a lot of things
Defensive 3 second rule coupled with a soft era looking after the popular. Ratings, cash generated etc. Is what’s made it this way. LeBron literally shoots like 36% outside of 3 feet, go figure. The NBA wasn’t looking for MJ, yet been looking for him ever since he hung them up. He’s one of one but let’s try manufacture another, a chosen one even. Hahahaha.
Nice
Horrible choice. Melo was a low IQ player who never understood that basketball was a team sport, or that there were two ends to the court, and an all around difficult listen. I’m sure that, after a few years, he’ll be able to do a Full Theus, and become a harsh critic of the defense played by modern players. It’s in the nature of things. But I’d prefer a different (almost any other) voice.
WHY ????
So you can have something else to whine and moan about.
WHY
Just don’t ask him to do any defensive commentary or analysis.
Now replace everyone on TNT again.