Carmelo Anthony: My love for New York made Knicks time special

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The 10-time NBA All-Star sat down with Rich Kleiman to reflect on playing in his hometown and what it meant for him to handle the pressure of playing in Madison Square Garden.

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So knowing that Denver holds such a, you know, a strong place in your heart, but New York, I think everybody can see is like connected with you in a way that’s hard to explain.

Why do you think it clicked the way it clicked?

I think everybody that watched knew you appreciated playing in the garden.

It’s it’s really hard to explain, to be honest with you, because I went through it, right?

I don’t went through kind of against New York in a sense, right?

Like against, really against New York, like me playing like against my own fans at time, right?

So it’s like Most people would be like, why are you loving that?

Like, why are you connected to him like, I, I, I can’t be like I don’t went through hell.

I don’t went through the fire.

I didn’t took every responsibility, accountability that you could possibly take as an athlete uh here in New York.

For one, I had a greater appreciation of what it meant to play in the garden and to put Nick’s uniform on.

So I understood my assignment when I came here was I know I gotta perform no matter what is happening.

I got, I know I have to perform.

I can’t worry about what they did to to A-Rod or Jeter or, you know, Eli, like I can’t like Marbury even like I studied all of that.

I studied how they moved, I studied how the media moved.

I like I made, I really sat down and studied all of that to the point where I was like, yo, I’m not.

Um, I would never ever allow any of that to happen to me, and that was like my shield when I came to New York.

Like I’m just gonna play ball or whatever happened, whatever y’all say is cool.

Like I, I’m just gonna go hoop and play basketball.

I think my appreciation of for one, wanting to come to New York, and wanting to embrace New York, and really wanting to give New York an opportunity and a chance.

People will always respect that, right?

Um.

I think the fact that I went through what I went through in New York.

And it was only, it was one-sided when I was going through it,…

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