Baltimore's Carmelo Anthony among Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame finalists
Baltimore's Carmelo Anthony, who played 19 years in the National Basketball Association, is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame finalist.
The Class of 2025 will be announced on April 5 during the NCAA Final Four weekend.
"Humbled and honored," Anthony said on social media.
Anthony played three years of high school basketball at Towson Catholic before transferring to Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia.
He played one season at Syracuse, where he won the national championship, ahead of being selected third overall in the 2003 NBA draft.
Anthony, a 10-time all-star and 2013 scoring champion, played for the Denver Nuggets (2003-2011), New York Knicks (2011-2017), Oklahoma City Thunder (2017-2018), Houston Rockets (2018-2019), Portland Trail Blazers (2019-2021) and Los Angeles Lakers (2021-2022).
He is 10th all-time with 28,289 career points.
Anthony won three Olympic gold medals.
Other Hall of Fame finalists
Also announced as finalists were women's basketball greats and Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, Maya Moore and Jennifer Azzi. Bird won five Olympic golds, Fowles won four, Moore won two, and Azzi was part of the team that won gold at Atlanta in 1996.
The other finalists as picked by the North American committee were Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan (a two-time NCAA champion coach at Florida); Gonzaga coach Mark Few; retired NBA referee Danny Crawford; NBA legends Marques Johnson and Buck Williams; and Jerry Welsh — who coached Potsdam in upstate New York to NCAA Division III titles in 1981 and 1986.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
