New York Knicks great Carmelo Anthony has been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025, as first reported by ESPN’s Shams Charania on Wednesday.
Spending 19 seasons in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets, Knicks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Portland Trail Blazers, and Los Angeles Lakers, Anthony was a 10-time All-Star, a six-time First-Team All-NBA member, and a member of the league’s 75th-anniversary team.
He ranks 10th all-time in NBA history with 28,289 points — one of just 27 players ever with 25,000 or more points.
The Syracuse product spent seven years with the Knicks after his blockbuster acquisition midway through the 2010-11 season from the Denver Nuggets, the team that selected him third overall in the 2003 NBA Draft behind LeBron James and Darko Milicic. His arrival in New York ushered in a new age for a struggling franchise that had become a laughing stock.
He helped New York make the playoffs in each of his first three seasons, including a 2012-13 season in which he won the NBA scoring title by averaging 28.7 points per game. That same year, they won 54 games — their most since 1996-97 — and their first playoff series since 2000.
Anthony averaged 24.7 points per game during his Knicks career, which ranks fourth in team history only behind Bob McAdoo, Bernard King, and Jalen Brunson. His 10,186 total points rank seventh in franchise lore, while his 762 three-pointers rank third, and his 2,225 defensive rebounds rank seventh.
He now becomes the first Knicks player who spent five or more years with the team within the last 50 years to be inducted into the Hall of Fame since King was enshrined in 2013.
