Former basketball player Carmelo Anthony -- who played for the Denver Nuggets most of his career before moving on to the New York Knicks and later Los Angeles Lakers -- has been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported on X.
Anthony will be honored in Springfield, Massachusetts, the home of the Basketball Hall of Fame. The hall of fame is an independent non-profit organization “dedicated to promoting, preserving and celebrating the game of basketball at every level,” according to the HOF’s website, and has more than 450 inductees.
Anthony, who is on the first ballot, has appeared in 10 All-Star games and has three Olympic gold medals for Team USA, Charania also reported.
The star joins Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Charles Barkley, Wilt Chamberlain, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke and many more, the HOF website said.
He was drafted third overall in 2003 by the Nuggets. That draft also presented LeBron James going first to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Dwyane Wade going fifth to the Miami Heat, ESPN reported.
James reacted on Wednesday to the news on X.
“CONGRATULATIONS MY BROTHER! PEACE GOD @carmeloanthony," he wrote.
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