Carmelo Anthony's college coach, Jim Boeheim, says Melo can play “16-20 minutes per game on the second unit.”
Anthony hasn’t played in an NBA game since Nov. 8, 2018 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. The 10-time All-Star played in just 10 games with the Houston Rockets last season before the franchise exiled him and traded him to the Chicago Bulls.
The Rockets traded Anthony to the Bulls on Jan. 22. The Bulls then waived Anthony, who has been an unrestricted free agent since then.
Jim Boeheim, who won an NCAA championship at Syracuse with Carmelo Anthony, believes Melo can be a microwave scorer off the bench for an NBA team.
“He's in great shape, he works out every day,” Boeheim said on Sirus XM Radio, via Sam Quinn of CBS Sports. “He's 35, but he can't go 35-40 minutes every game and get you 25 points, no, but he doesn't want to do that. He's said that several times already. If he isn't the best available guy to go in the second unit on a good team, not a young team, a good team that has a chance to win, if he's not a guy that can go into any one of seven or eight teams and be, if not the best guy, certainly the second-best, the second-best guy on the second unit, and I think in the past people felt that he didn't want to do that, and he didn't.
“But I think right now he'd be fine doing that, and I don't think there's any of those teams he wouldn't help if he was a guy playing 16-20 minutes per game on the second unit. If he's having a good game, you'll play him a little bit more, if he's not having a big game, then you know, you don't use him at the end.”
Carmelo Anthony averaged 13.4 points and 5.4 rebounds with the Rockets last season while shooting 40.5 percent from the field, 32.8 percent from beyond the arc and 68.2 percent from the free-throw line. It would be great if Anthony gets one more shot in the NBA.
A future Hall of Famer, Carmelo Anthony deserves to end his NBA career on his own terms.
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