Carmelo Anthony | New York Knicks

Carmelo Anthony | New York Knicks

Carmelo Anthony | New York Knicks
Carmelo was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican father, who died when Anthony was two years old, and an African-American mother. Carmelo and his mother moved to Baltimore when he was eight years old. He commuted to Towson Catholic High School in Towson, Maryland where he was a three-year basketball star and played his senior year at Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. Carmelo played just one year of college ball at Syracuse University where he led the team to a 30 - 5 record and its first NCAA championship in 2003. He then went pro drafted as the #3 pick by the Denver Nuggets, and scored 30 points in just his sixth game - the second youngest NBA player after Kobe Bryant to hit 30 points. Carmelo is a four-time NBA all star and key player in the Nuggets 2004 to 2010 playoff run. He was traded to the New York Kicks in February and helped get the team to the playoffs for the first time since 2004, losing to Boston in four games. Carmelo's career average is 24.8 points per game. He has been generous to a number of charities since turning pro donating over $4 million in 2006 alone to various causes. Carmelo was scheduled to earn $18,518,574 for the 2011 - 2012 NBA season.

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His Colorado home is 12,700 square feet with both an indoor basketball court and batting cage (he was recruited by several colleges as a high school baseball player) and 8 bedrooms on 5.7 gated acres.

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