New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony won an NCAA national championship with Syracuse in 2003 and a trio of Olympic gold medals with Team USA. But according to his college coach Jim Boeheim, that's all of the hardware he's going to win.
The Syracuse head coach spoke with the media Tuesday, per Mike Waters of Syracuse.com: "He's unlikely to win an NBA title. He's never been on a team that even had a remote chance of winning an NBA title. As a player, all you can do is try to make your team better and every team he's been on he's made them a lot better."
The 13-year veteran and nine-time All-Star made the postseason in each of his first 10 seasons in the league, seven of them coming with the Denver Nuggets, the team that drafted him.
"Denver hadn't done anything prior to him getting there and he took them into the playoffs," Boeheim said. "They weren't going to beat the Lakers or the Spurs. In those years, they won the championship most of the time."
In the prior eight seasons before Anthony's NBA arrival in Denver, the Nuggets hadn't made the playoffs. In fact, they hadn't recorded a single winning season.
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Jim Boeheim Says Carmelo Anthony ‘Unlikely’ to Ever Win NBA Championship
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