{"id":491973,"date":"2025-04-02T13:33:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491973"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:33:48","slug":"nuggets-and-knicks-legend-carmelo-anthony-elected-to-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nuggets-and-knicks-legend-carmelo-anthony-elected-to-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets and Knicks legend Carmelo Anthony elected to Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carmelo Anthony, who has been a part 10 times of the All-Star Game, has been notified that he&#8217;s been elected into this year\u2019s Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class.<\/p>\n<p>Carmelo, a 6-time All-NBA pick, was selected 3<sup>rd<\/sup> overall by the Nuggets in 2003, a draft that saw LeBron James picked 1<sup>st<\/sup> by the Cavs and Wade 5<sup>th<\/sup> to the Heat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First ballot: Carmelo Anthony has been notified that he&#39;s been elected into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025, sources tell ESPN. Anthony made 10 All-Star appearances and six All-NBA teams in 19 seasons to go along with three Olympic gold medals for Team USA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b079xHPqZB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/b079xHPqZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1907468669770420417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He swiftly became 1 of the NBA\u2019s premier scorers, averaging 21 points per game in his debut campaign. Anthony would go average almost 25 points over 8 years and 564 matches for Denver, which featured a West Conference final defeat to the Lakers during the 2008-09.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Carmelo was traded to the NY Knicks as part of a blockbuster 3-team deal, as he returned to the East, where he was born. Anthony led the league in scoring in 2013, but could not lead New York beyond the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the postseason that campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He also averaged almost 25 points in 412 matches for the NBA franchise from the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Antony played for the Lakers in his final campaign in the league in 2021-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmelo Anthony, who has been a part 10 times of the All-Star Game, has been notified that he&#8217;s been elected into this year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":491974,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[23448,16736,17837,17172],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[19548,17859,18191,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The NBA star has been elected for the Hall of Fame Class of 2025.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491975,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491973\/revisions\/491975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491973"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491973"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}