HOW WOULD YOU KNOW!? 🗣️ Stephen A. reacts to Carmelo's NBA title vs. gold medal claim | First Take 

Exactly

I mean he can’t so he’s gonna pick what he has

Changed the whole narrative 😂

Thanks for the clarification

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YOU CAUGHT THAT TOO ! 🤣🤣

LMFAOOOOOO

It's muscle memory for him at this point 😂

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Ok Carmelo

Carmelo ain’t gonna f$&k u bro

Facts, mfs don’t have enough knowledge of the game to pick up what he Layin down💯

@@DevenBlackmon it’s not like he’s been covering the NBA since the 90s, but what can he know right?!? 😂

@@ALCblackout24HD SAS has done niether thing at that level then literally says Melo does nt have something he himself doesnt know about is crazy! melo a pro baller that played for gold and tried to win NBA chip SAS is a niqqa that talks he avg. 1 ppg agame in college he was trash!

It's 100% cap. If Carmelo had a title he wouldn't even be talking.

@@Christo_Trismegistusexactly

So people aren't allowed to critique his opinion that he chose to put out there?

It's not a valid opinion if he has no NBA championship. If he did what Lebron did when he went to Miami and won a ring, joined a superteam in NBA and not in olympics, he wouldn't have this pity on himself. 😂

There is no reason to critic this man. People critic because the media encourage them, too. ​@IBlackSanta

Exactly

i understand your point, but from fans perspectives, we’ve never really cared about gold medals when it comes to legacy, yes it’s nice, but fans have always looked more into NBA accolades rather than olympic competition

I said the same thing. Lol

Hahahahhahaha true

and still we all value nba chips over medals when talking about legacies, dont need either to know that. We are all fans, quit acting disingenuous

Peeped that too

LOL facts

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Totally agree

The need content for the summer 😂

No, they are not. He opened his mouth and said that ish. His name and career are big enough to merit this segment

​​@@emmettebramble10that's true but it also was a plan to kinda force Melo out the league once it was quote on quote.... too late to change the narrative they put on him.... he simply didnt want that route... he's comfortable with his 3medals he was the goat in that until KD broke his records 😂 but Melo is still goated so this is a good topic as you say had it been another player under his level of play they probably would have picked a different topic💯

Does he know why?

You still believing BS? lol

​@@chadwickchapman4100 yeah insanity is now a mental disorder

@@chadwickchapman4100Brooklyn born and raised , Melo WAS jealous af of Linsanity and had no reason to be bc he’s 1000000x better than J Lin. But he did , not to mention he came into the season fat and out of shape every year and wasn’t in game shape until January . Melo is an underachiever in the NBA

@@AY-jy4xf lol

its not what he prefers he is saying that its more valuable and the arguement is its not, he cant say its more valuable because he does not have anything to compare the two

Carmelo is full of it. A championship ring is more satisfying and he knows that.

@@Darrencollinsjr no he don’t 🤣

An international worldwide championship is less than a USA nba championship? Lol

Shut ur mouth

He’s allowed to have opinions like you have yours. No one is forcing you to believe what he’s saying but being so entitled that your opinion is worth more than everyone else is stupid.

His a narcissist...he think his words rule

@@jonhenrychris6973 He gets paid to voice his words as if they are true.

Shannon agreed with him too so include him as well. Or is Shannon justified?

And most of them are forgotten right away. But for the top players on the team it is “needed” and validation for their success in today’s sports world. No one can name most of the players that won championships because it’s not about them it’s about the Lebrons, the Kobe’s, and the Jordan’s solidifying their legacy

Lol but in the olympics team usa almost has the best players in the world in one team😂 they are stack compared to other countries

@@mannymatencio1279 im not disagreeing... just giving perspective... i would say tho... noah said that nba champs aren't world champs.. i guess by definition melo accomplished that.. is that a bad thing now

​@@mannymatencio1279everybody was saying world champions of what. Melo is a world champion

The USA wins the the gold every 4 years bruah😂😂😂😂

He's won on every level, but NBA

Come onnnnnnnnnn skipppppp😅😅😅😅😅 Steven A

That's true he carried that Cuse team

Back when a NCAA chip really meant something.

​@@jefriefultonii3666Facts Melo won a National Championship at Syracuse as a True Freshman and was the Leader their first National Championship Melo was so good many told Melo to stay at Syracuse and try to repeat but casuals like stephen a try to tarnish Melo Legacy

Not entitled, they just think everything American is better.

And isn't questioned! Melo gave his opinion for winning gold and he gets criticized!

Jokic 2x MVP and has a Ring 💍 so it hit way different 😅

It isn't entitlement. It's reality, there are plenty of guys who really were just meh nba players or solid role players guys who will never make the HoF that have at least 1 gold medal. It's far more valuable to win for any other country cus again the reality is that it doesn't happen and has only happened 2 times in the last 40 something years. This isn't a sentiment that only comes from Americans the vast majority of people would agree outside of America as well

Ikr

Stop it

@@ianharris7669 I saw him in Baltimore and asked him and that is what I got from his response

Cap. Carmelo was never going to take a pay cut for anyone. That's why he forced his way out of Denver to get to NYC asap which made the Knicks an even worse team

@@Christo_Trismegistus of course he wanted his money but he wanted to win the championship being the man guy in Miami he wouldn't of been the main guy

Yeah you can say that once you already won a championship 🏆😜

Kobe also cared more about jacking up shots his last 3 years than winning. Just cus he was a great player doesn't mean he can't say things that are wrong. Winning a gold medal for the US objectively isn't seen as that big of an accomplishment for the vast majority of the basketball community. It means far more than a championship to every other country because it's only happened a handful of times since its become an Olympic sport

​​@@yunglardastar5366 that still doesn't effect how kobe felt...kobe said what he believed

@@user-uk4ws2ir6p that’s fine but he still had to prove he could win as the guy after that 08 medal and I’m sure he felt that was more satisfying. He said that before he won as the main guy in 08. That 5th ring vs the Celtics also to pass Shaq in rings was his crowning moment

if Kobe had to choose I think he would take his nba Championships

Yes he's on team USA they win everytime

I see what you saying but you gotta admit its funny for Carmelo to say he values gold medals more because not every athlete can get one. Like, bro, you played 20 seasons in the NBA, you a hall of famer... and you never even made the finals lol

I think the point is you can’t compare those medals with something you don’t even have in an NBA championship

@@datsapaddlin SA established that the minimum requirements to compare both is to win both, but then why does he procedes to compare them, when he has never won neither.

@@ziro6837 I mean they just pointed out he’s only won gold medals and that’s why he said that because he never won an NBA championship and has no chance to win one now

It's cap. You're not playing the best players in the world because all the best players on the USA team.

@@Christo_Trismegistus so when the US won bronze, does that mean they were still the best in the World? That's the whole point of the Olympics. One country's best against another country's best. Whoever wins Gold is the best in the world. NBA champions are the best in the league. It's not complicated. The NBA title might be the more popular but as far as competition, you can't really argue against the Olympics

When we won the bronze the USA did not have all of its top players at the time because some of them did not want to compete in the olympics.

@@marcusward23 that's still no excuse with this roster. Allen Iverson Stephon Marbury Dwyane Wade Carlos Boozer Carmelo Anthony LeBron James Emeka Okafor Shawn Marion Amar'e Stoudemire Tim Duncan Lamar Odom Richard Jefferson

@@Thadarkknyte82 its not the best in the world but its the other countries best players.

No he doesn’t

No one is saying he doesn't have the right to say it, but we have the right not to believe him.

He's a loser so he doesn't have any rights

@@brandoncool63and that’s fine. I doubt he said the way he felt to persuade you or anyone else that his truth is anything but his own truth.

He really doesn't.

Shannon agreed with SAS, why’d you leave him out? Or is Shannon justified?

And the Nuggets won the year he retired and Jokic wears his number

How do you know

Definitely 😂

Of course 😁

And the opportunity is gone!! 😂 Nobody on earth believes him or agrees with him.. Some times you gotta just fall back and be humble on some matters..

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It’s called tough love

@@keeng9873lmfaooo

@@raynathan8349 hmm

Is one to always agree with people? What kind of soft a$$ believes that always agreeing with people is the only way.

Neither does Shannon

@@jasonj_vii2012football isn't international so try again

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Lol I ain't mad at him lol

That's why Shay 1 of them 1's cus of replies like that

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Because like they said he doesn't know what a chip means because he's never had one he doesn't have that perspective..

​@@thoryl7067but he has enough perspective being in the league, being in the playoffs. Yeah, he didn't win one, but that's what he values at the end of the day.

He can feel how he wanna feel. Buy never even making it to a finals? He can't even compare the 2. Then like Shannon said he went ring chasing at the end to get one. I gotta call CAP on Melo

You’re allowed to THINK he’s deluding himself bro. Chill out

Nobody cares what it means to HIM cause he never won a ring let alone never even played in an NBA finals

Crazy how mofos want to tell someone how to think and feel

@@mictza450 🎯💯

Is racism cool because it's how someone feels? Should we tolerate their "truth" about their feelings, too? 😂 What he said was stupid.

@@DoctorDoom84 Yes we should! That way we have a "CHOICE" if we want to be around them or do any type of business with them... In my opinion 💯

@hlmcclain2 I disagree but fair enough. I believe stupidity shouldn't be tolerated under any circumstances. Flat Earthers, for example, should be called out and shamed at every opportunity. Certain ways of thinking hurt our entire species.

Exactly bruhh😂

Sad u keep coming back to this scrub which gets him $ to talk ish

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Y’all must be missing the whole point on purpose lol

@@marcusnoel698exactly lol

Exactly

You wouldn't know either chiefmane1 How deep will this go?

He didn't say he does tho? TF is wrong with you

He makes millions talking about sports, I think he’s doing alright 😂😂

There is a way to disagree with someone without completely dismissing their opinion. Melo played at the highest level for 19 years and based his opinion off his personal experience. Steven A’s full knowledge base is centered around what other ppl did and what other ppl said, ppl who have far more direct experience than he ever had. 2 great minds with different opinions and experiences.

Because Jokic plays the right way and makes teammates better. Carmelo has always been a ball stopping scorer who is more worried about getting his points and money then he is about winning

Carmelo is capping

exactly dude thats what i thought

Yeah, Exactly. I ain't mad at it though.

It didn't matter what he did from jump, his knock on rings means they knock his game overall but compare him to his peers but also knock them for getting the rings they did lol, which is laughable. Melo being drafted at #3 was the writing on the wall.

Exactly

@@chadwickchapman4100someone that sees the picture clearly 👏🏽👏🏽

Exactly

@@antno_2064bro shutup

@@KiarRushing y me, what I do?

Idk what doing crack would do to you but I know not to do it . Just cause SAS never won either doesn’t mean it takes common sense

​@antno_2064 you out here on every comment like PREACH BRO shut up man lol. Yall got the dumbest take here. I don't have to win either to know which holds more value. That's so stupid

He should come back for one more run to win a ring

Bet Americans are about to have a rude awakening

It’s about to get a whole lot harder for Americans going forward

@@Griemmy nah gold medals are great but leading your team to an NBA championship as the main option has always been at the top of the list in rating greatness for a player

Yep. It doesn't mean anything now, because Americans take it for granted.

It might get harder now but when Melo played it wasn’t even a challenge. It’s the same reason why bill Russell isn’t the goat

Dat part 💯

Yea but winning NBA championship is what solidifies HOF career. And good bulk of ppl will think of winning that than the Olympics. His case is his best friends have that ring when he doesnt. That is the only thing that separates him from Wade and Bron. So if he had a ring idk if he would have the same ideology

The thing is objectively it's far easier to win a gold medal for basketball for the US than a championship. There's been like 3 other countries I think that have won an Olympic gold since like the 70s, one being the USSR which isn't even a country anymore and the other being Argentina. Other than that there is a VERY good chance we'll never see another country win gold for most of our lifetimes

@@Sqeaky6969 I mean as of now I think France got it in the bag next one. I don’t see US winning unless Tatum and brown play. But if I were them I wouldn’t

@@hiimdre321 yeah but that's going forward, for the most part the US team has always been far more talented than opposing teams even when we were sending college kids against pros. There's still a chance the US team rolls in 2028 cus just like this year good teams like Germany and France end up being in the same bracket and end up knocking each other out

Where's your gold tho 🤔

@@jaysonbell7369 Down you mama's throat. White gold

Then why you're not in usa 😂

I mean he nver won an NBA championship, thats the safe answer is to take what you only have. If he has an NBA championship atleast 1 people will not laugh at his opinion, but then again that's his opinion.

But Kobe also had championships at that point of his career. If Kobe didn't have any chips he would've have said something different for sure

A man can have his opinion doesnt mean it cant be criticized as ridiculous... its no different if a player said an In season regular season championship like the lakers won last year... means more than nba championship... doesnt make it any less dumb just becuase they say the words "In my opinion"

Carmelo don't have a ring either

And which is harder for an American NBA player to do? Win a gold medal or win a NBA championship?

@@Christo_Trismegistus a gold medal lol

If melo played for Cameroon like a joel embiid was suppose and won 3 gold medals 🏅 what he says would make sense but winning gold is pretty much guaranteed if you can make the team

@@And1one757 it wasn't guaranteed. if Steph wasn't on the team, the US probably doesn't even medal...

Carmelo is capping

Exactly

Kinda takes common sense . I never did crack before but I’m pretty sure it won’t do too much good to you 🤷🏾‍♂️

He’s been in the biz for 20+ years, he’s paid for his opinion, you don’t think he has common sense?

Yea but you can't tell people there wrong because they didn't say what yall want him to say

@@anthonyanderson7080 I mean

Shannon Sharpe won 3 Super Bowls. Two with Denver, and one with Baltimore.

@@allendaniel7405And how many gold medals?? Any medals?

@@achyld21 I know. I remember when Shannon struggled with the Olympic football team.. Huh? Football isn't an olympic sport? My bad.

Carmelo is a loser

Come back Carmelo, overtake Shaq on the all-time point chart.

No doubt, but i think melo really coming from a place of self-reflection when it comes to his career. why hang your head on what you didn't win when you do have accolades to be proud of. I think melo definitely wishes he had the ring, but he said it in the segment that they're discussing, 'it wasn't in the cards for him to win an NBA chip'. So rather than sipping from the juice of 'what ifs', stand on what you got. He just really said he wouldn't trade one of his medals for an nba ring. after reflection, he realized his significance in bball is those medals. nothing wrong with that, and i dont think he's lying as of right now. if this was when he freshly retired, then he in hella denial. But i think this is from a geniuine place.