New York Knicks legend Carmelo Anthony has been notified that he’s been elected into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025, per ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Following an illustrious playing career, one of the purest scorers in NBA history is a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Throughout his 19-year NBA career, Anthony was named an All-Star 10 times (six with the Knicks), All-NBA six times, and amassed over 28,289 career points — currently ranking 10th on the NBA’s all-time scoring leaderboard.
Selected third overall in the 2003 NBA Draft out of Syracuse, Anthony spent the first seven and a half seasons of his professional career playing with the Denver Nuggets before making his way to New York via a blockbuster trade in 2011.
Anthony spent the next seven seasons with the New York Knicks from 2011 to 2017, averaging 24.7 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 3.2 assists over 412 regular-season games. He was the NBA’s Scoring Champion for the 2012-13 season and currently ranks seventh on the Knicks’ franchise scoring leaderboard.
Anthony’s 62-point explosion over the Charlotte Bobcats in 2014 still stands as both the Knicks’ and Madison Square Garden’s scoring record. It has been challenged a few times but never conquered.
He was a catalyst in helping New York revitalize their franchise in the early 2010s, leading the Knicks to their first playoff berth in over six years in 2011. In the postseason, Anthony’s averages jumped to 28.0 points, 7.7 rebounds, and 3.3 assists in 21 games while donning orange and blue.
Beyond his NBA career, Anthony is one of the most decorated Olympic athletes of all time. A three-time Olympic gold medalist (2008, 2012, 2016), he still holds the record for the most points scored in a single Olympic game, 37, and is Team USA’s second all-time leading scorer behind future fellow first ballotee Kevin Durant.
