Hour 3 – Carmelo Anthony Doesn’t Deserve a Jersey Retirement
The Odd Couple with Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Brian Noe is in for Rob, and he and Chris provide up-to-the-minute analysis of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat, tell us what has impressed them the most about the Nuggets and the Heat during these playoffs and discuss us why Carmelo Anthony doesn’t deserve to have his jersey retired by the New York Knicks. Plus, FOX Sports Radio Weekend host Martin Weiss checks in to bring us another award-winning edition of Trollin’ or Rollin’.
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| 1:24.8 | Martin Weiss coming up at the bottom of the hour. You don't want to miss that. |
| 1:31.0 | But in the meantime, in between time, we are going to talk about Carmelo Anthony. |
| 1:37.2 | Of course, he announced his retirement yesterday. A lot of people joked, oh, I thought he already |
| 1:44.1 | was retired. He didn't play last year. But or this season, he wasn't on a team. |
| 1:49.7 | But I'm glad that he Brian announced his retirement publicly so that we could give him his flowers |
| 1:58.0 | because Carmelo and a lot of people will poo poo Carmelo because he didn't win a championship |
| 2:03.6 | and really didn't have a lot of playoff success overall. I think he won three playoff series, |
| 2:09.0 | Rob G. Correct me if I'm wrong. Three playoff series in his career. But he was undoubtedly one of the |
| 2:16.0 | greatest scores of this generation of this era. And you know, he's a top 75 player all time. |
| 2:23.8 | He's a hall of fame or first ballot. There's no question about that. So I'm glad |
| 2:29.2 | that we're able to give him his props. But interestingly, Ian Begley, who covers the Nix |
| 2:36.4 | and the entire NBA in the New York area, Begley said, Rob G. He reported yesterday |
| 2:44.0 | that the Nix are going to or their look, they're considering it. His exact verbiage is my guess is |
| 2:51.1 | that it is going to be retired. Just in the conversation, people who will be familiar with the situation, |
| 2:56.4 | they thought there was momentum towards Carmelo and these numbers seven getting retired in MSG. |
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