Carmelo Anthony has yet to find an NBA job since he last laced him up on Nov. 2018, but his longtime trainer Chris Brickley still thinks he could start in this league under the right situation.

Melo was a perennial starter through his first 15 seasons in the league, only taking a bench role in his latest tenure with the Houston Rockets, one that lasted only 10 games last season. Yet Brickley, who has coached Anthony since his early days with the New York Knicks, knows he still has the chops to be an impact player.

“Yes,” Brickley affirmed The Breakfast Club on Power 105’s The Breakfast Club. “If given the [right] situation.”

Brickley, who also stars on his own ESPN+ show “Declared,” has been coaching Melo for the better part of seven years and played a part in the legend of “Hoodie Melo,” which took the NBA by storm two seasons ago before he was eventually traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Anthony can still be seen hooping with many NBA stars in Brickley's Black Ops summer runs, but while he's unquestionably a quality scorer, he's yet to prove able to adapt to a team that can't make him the focal point of the offense.

Carmelo Anthony has shouldered the load for most of his career, doing so in Syracuse while vaulting the Orange to an NCAA title in 2003, then doing the same for the Denver Nuggets and the Knicks. There are very few opportunities for a roster spot as it is this late in July, even less for a starter — Melo is unfortunately in a position where he must adapt or risk not playing another NBA game, no matter how much juice he still has left in his 35-year-old legs.