Former NBA star Carmelo Anthony raised eyebrows on Thursday after some feedback he made concerning the Denver Nuggets and star middle Nikola Jokić throughout the newest episode of his 7PM in Brooklyn podcast.
Anthony, who performed 19 seasons within the NBA, the primary eight of which he spent with the Nuggets, voiced a criticism about how the franchise was fast to dump his No. 15 jersey to Jokic.
Anthony described the act from Denver as a “petty maneuver” and admitted that he felt prefer it was a way for the group to attenuate his legacy.
“It was a petty maneuver. It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, we’ve bought numbers to select from.’ It was like, ‘right here, take this one, you bought 15,’” mentioned Anthony to co-host Joel “The Child Mero” Martinez. “And y’all put Jokic in the course of that. He don’t know what the f— happening.”
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“He might’ve been making an attempt to pay homage, I don’t know… However what I consider, is that they gave him No. 15 to attempt to erase what I did,” he added.
Anthony was famously traded to the New York Knicks throughout the 2010–11 season, greater than three years earlier than the Nuggets drafted Jokić with the No. 41 decide in ‘14. Jokic didn’t debut for the franchise till ’15, 4 years after Anthony final performed for Denver.
The No. 15 jersey was worn as soon as in between Anthony’s exit from the franchise and Jokić’s entrance, as Anthony Randolph was given the uniform quantity throughout the 2013–14 season.
