Melo becomes 21st NBA player to score 25K points
Less than a week after fellow 2003 draftee LeBron James surpassed 30,000 career NBA points, his friend Carmelo Anthony reached 25,000 on Saturday in the third quarter of the Thunder's game against the Detroit Pistons.
Anthony becomes the 21st player in NBA history to cross the 25,000-point plateau. He reached the milestone on a free throw after being fouled on a very Melo-like shot, a turnaround jumper attempt.
With this free throw, Carmelo Anthony reaches 25,000 points for his career! #ThunderUp pic.twitter.com/yqMAngCUIo
— NBA (@NBA) January 27, 2018
Going into Saturday, Anthony has averaged 24.4 points in 1,023 career NBA games with three teams. Probably the best pure scorer in the league from the mid-2000s up until a few seasons ago, the Syracuse product is a lock to one day be enshrined in Springfield alongside fellow class-of-2003 friends James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh.