Add achievements to Carmelo Anthony’s CV.
The Portland Trail Blazers ahead surpassed Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce at number 15 on the NBA’s all-time scorers list with a lazy shot in the final quarter of Sunday’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers. He came here in only six issues from Pierce for the 15th and 4 tracks from some other Celtics legend to John Havlicek for 16th place.
Pierce scored 26,397 numbers in his career, while Havlicek scored 26,395 problems.
Next on the list is Tim Duncan, who scored 26,496 tracks in his illustrious career with the San Antonio Spurs.
The NBA shared a look at Anthony’s position:
Congratulations to @carmeloanthony @trailblazers 15th on the all-time score list! https://t.co/h8FWiN0Z6u
Anthony, 36, has played for the Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets and now the Trail Blazers since entering the league as the third nba in the 2003 NBA Draft.
While he has not won the championships that fellow 2003 draftees LeBron James and Dwyane Wade did, he is a future Hall of Famer largely based on his impressive scoring totals alone.
Anthony led the league with the Knicks in 2012-13 and averaged more than 20 game-consistent issues in his first 14 seasons. It is also an All-NBA variety six times and 10 times All-Star with an average of 23.6 problems consistent with the NBA-level game.
This season represents a wrought recovery effort for the Syracuse product after betting only 10 games in 2018-19 for the Rockets and gave the impression that he was heading for retirement.
The Trail Blazers took a chance on him, and temporarily established himself as a veteran leader and a secondary scoring option alongside Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum. The team lobbied for a place in the Western Conference play-in tournament as the eighth or ninth seed at Walt Disney World Resort, and Anthony played a role in the effort.
It would be an astonishing progression if he won the first championship of his career this season given Portland’s standing in the standings, but further cemented his Fame Hall prestige with his scoring efforts.
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