Carmelo Anthony: Return to New York will be ’emotional’
Carmelo Anthony anticipates his first game in New York since the end of his tumultuous tenure there to be an emotional one.
Anthony, now with the Oklahoma City Thunder, will play at Madison Square Garden as a visitor for the first time since leaving the Knicks on Saturday night, and he admits he misses the city.
“Walking in there, it’ll be a little emotional, because from the standpoint, that’s home,” Anthony said, via Royce Young of ESPN. “Being back in there, being on the other side, running out the other side of the tunnel, seeing people that I became close with, seeing my family that I can’t really much right now because I’m in Oklahoma City — my son, my wife — seeing them, having them be there, is very important. So I think it’ll be a fun game, a fun night. Emotional as far as excited being back on that court.
“How could I not miss New York? I became entrenched into not just the Knicks, but the city as a whole. Those are my roots, the people there. I became one of them. I’ve embraced New York City. I embraced the culture, embraced everything about the city, so yeah, definitely.”
There are definitely certain things about Anthony’s Knicks tenure that he wasn’t particularly pleased with, but overall, he misses the people and the city. He may not have delivered the success that Knicks fans would have hoped he would, but it will still be a meaningful game for him.
