Carmelo Anthony: Syracuse season is favorite year of my career

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The 10-time NBA All-Star and former national champion at Syracuse sat down with Rich Kleiman to reflect on his title-winning season with the Orange.

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Your year at Syracuse, do you now looking back at your career, look at that year maybe as one of if not the greatest year of your entire basketball journey?

1000%.

Even though we won it.

What made that year was the fact that we weren’t expected to do nothing, like, at that year, like the year before Syracuse wasn’t, you know, it wasn’t as good.

And it’s a very similar situation to what my son is going in right now to next year.

So me coming in there with 34 freshmen at the time where it was like there was no way freshmen are leading any team in college at this point in time.

So, I guess we have a carefree, like, we were just like, man, we ain’t got a shot of hell.

We just gonna go out there and just hoop, and we all going through the same thing.

We’re going through classes, we’re going through, you know, practice together.

We all freshmen, so you go through the same thing.

And we connected and we bonded us first and then we started to bond with Like like Hakeem and all those, you know what I mean, he just became slowly, slowly, slowly, like I, everybody coming together, and when they came together, it was just a feeling that You know, we are, we can, we really good like it went from like we we I.

Like we got right to a world we beat Missouri.

Like they top several or world Georgia Tech, and this is when they had Jerry, Jackie, Chris Bosh, like we beat them on Big, big Monday or Super Tuesday or something.

They still wasn’t giving us our love.

So we like, uh, we gonna protect home court.

We ain’t gonna, we, we don’t, we ain’t gonna lose in the carrier though.

And we didn’t.

We went 17-0 in the, in, in the carrier though, but that year is definitely at the top when it comes to like, one of the, one of my, like my best year, all the way through.

I had the most fun.

It was a carefree, playing basketball, working in the gym,…

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