Former Syracuse basketball star Carmelo Anthony got disrespected

Perhaps the most popular figure from Syracuse basketball lore is Carmelo Anthony. So when he’s in the news, we talk about it.

With the NBA season rapidly approaching in mid-October, story-lines and anticipation is starting to build. With that, former Syracuse basketball prodigy, Carmelo Anthony, was back in the news this week.

The reason being, Melo believes that he got disrespected when analyzed among his peers in a recent poll. That recent poll comes by way of Slam Magazine. Which is an annual basketball magazine that has been in circulation for over 20 years.

Every season Slam ranks the top 50 players in the NBA today. Which is where Anthony comes into the picture. While the magazine still considers Melo a top-15 player in the league, that’s apparently not enough for Anthony.

Last season he was ranked as the 13th best player and this season he fell to 15th on the magazine’s annual list. While Anthony was near his career low in points per game last season, he was stronger in a ton of other areas.

He had a career-high 4.2 assists per game and averaged 7.7 rebounds last season, his first full season following knee surgery in 2015. Although an underlying issue here could be the MVP debate.

While many people think that if you’re a good player on a bad team, you can never win the MVP award. Hence the New York Knicks only won 32 games last season and haven’t made the playoffs in three years. So often it seems that the reason he gets so little appreciation is due to his team’s struggles. Melo shared his thoughts on that dichotomy.

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