Carmelo Anthony reveling in his Hall of Fame moment: No better than this

SAN ANTONIO — Carmelo Anthony sat on the dais inside the news conference room at the Alamodome with a smile splashed across his face. A few hours earlier, his inclusion into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame had been announced.He was still floating. “This is it,” the prolific scoring forward said.

“This is it.It don’t get no better than this.

It don’t get greater than this.All of those things, those accomplishments that you have mentioned, this just puts a cap on that and it makes it all worth the while.” The college basketball national champion, 10-time NBA All-Star and three-time Olympic gold medalist was joined in the 2025 class by Dwight Howard, WNBA legends Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles, Chicago Bulls coach and two-time college basketball champion Billy Donovan, Miami Heat owner Micky Arison and NBA referee Danny Crawford. Howard and Anthony were actually inducted twice, as members of the 2008 U.S.

Olympic men’s basketball team, also known as the “Redeem Team.” That group won gold at the Beijing Games after recent disappointments in previous international competition. Enshrinement weekend begins Sept.5 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn., and the Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. Anthony, 40, got the call during the week.

When he saw the number was coming from Springfield, the former Knicks star knew what that meant.Days later, it was still sinking in. “I’m satisfied.

It was worth it.I’m here,” Anthony said.

“Again, it just comes back to being satisfied.When you are an athlete and you’re playing, you’re competing, your coaches tell you, never be satisfied.

So you have that mentality until you can sit back and take yourself out of that situation in that moment and realize, ‘I’m good on basketball.’ I’m satisfied. “This is the gate, these are the doors.And it’s nothing that anyone can take away from me now.” It was fitting that the announcement came at the Final Four, the first real...