NBA legend Carmelo Anthony named among Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2025

Carmelo Anthony is headed to Springfield.

The New York Knicks legend, NCAA champion and three-time Olympic golden medalist has been selected for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame connected his archetypal ballot.

Although helium ne'er won an NBA title, Anthony did marque 10 All-Star appearances and six All-NBA teams implicit 19 seasons aft winning a nationalist rubric successful his lone play astatine Syracuse.

ESPN's Shams Charania was the archetypal to study the 40-year-old Anthony's enactment for the Hall of Fame.  

Anthony was among a fig of finalists for this year's class, including Dwight Howard, Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, Maya Moore and Jennifer Azzi arsenic good arsenic Miami Heat owner Micky Arison. As of Wednesday afternoon, Anthony was the lone campaigner revealed to person been approved by voters. 

The Hall of Fame's Class of 2025 volition beryllium enshrined connected September 9 successful the birthplace of basketball, Springfield, Massachusetts.  

Born successful Brooklyn and raised successful Baltimore, Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School for 3 years earlier transferring to hoops powerhouse Oak Hill Academy, wherever helium erstwhile faced disconnected with a teenage LeBron James.

It was Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim who became the envy of each assemblage manager erstwhile helium successfully recruited the 6-foot-8 guardant to upstate New York.

Anthony played lone 1 play for the Orange, but was nevertheless instrumental successful winning the school’s archetypal and lone nationalist title successful hoops successful 2003.

That summer, Anthony was drafted 3rd wide successful the NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets aft being passed implicit by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who took James, and the Detroit Pistons, who picked notorious disappointment Darko Milicic.

Over the amended portion of 19 seasons, overmuch of which was spent successful Denver and New York, Melo established himself arsenic 1 of the premiere scorers successful the NBA, starring the league successful 2012-13 astatine 28.7 points a game. He would spell connected to decorativeness 3rd successful that year’s MVP voting down James and Kevin Durant. 

He was a subordinate of the disappointing 2004 US Olympic team, which took bronze successful Athens, earlier filling a starring relation for the 2008 squad, known arsenic the ‘Redeem Team,’ that captured golden successful Beijing. The US would spell connected to triumph golden again successful London and Rio de Janeiro with Anthony astatine forward. 

These days, Anthony’s lad Kiyan is the prima hooper successful the family. The 18-year-old has declared his volition to play astatine Syracuse for Boeheim’s successor, Adrian Autry.