Carmelo Anthony is a Brooklyn-born professional basketball player with a earned a net worth of around $160 million dollars. He is perhaps most famous for being a player for the New York Knicks. Anthony has been named an NBA All-Star ten times and an All-NBA Team member six times.Carmelo Anthony was born on May 29, 1984, in Red Hook, New York. Anthony's mother Mary Anthony died from cancer at the age of 2. His father moved the family to Baltimore at the age of Anthony was eight where they resided in one of the roughest parts of town. Sport was a way to escape the drug and violence and other issues they were living close to. Anthony commuted to Townson Catholic School for high school. In the summer of 1999, Anthony suddenly increased five inches taller and weighed 6'5. He was one of the best players in the area and earned his name in the area, even receiving the Baltimore Sun's Metro player of the year. He was at Syracuse University for one year between 2002 and 2003 before deciding to make the switch to professional and go through the NBA draft. While playing for the Syracuse Orange in college, He won a national championship as a freshman in 2003 and was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
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