Who Is Carmelo Anthony? The Man Behind 7PM in Brooklyn

If you grew up watching basketball at all in the last two decades, you know Carmelo Anthony's name before you know anything else about him. Ten-time NBA All-Star. Olympic gold medalist. One of the highest-volume scorers to ever play the game, with stops in Denver, New York, Oklahoma City, Houston, and Portland. That resume alone would be enough to build a podcast around. Instead, Melo built something looser and more interesting: a hangout show where the basketball is just the entry point.

7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony is Melo's Wave Original, executive produced by Creative 7, and it airs every Monday. The format rotates a crew of co-hosts through the seat next to him, including The Kid Mero, Rudy Gay, Monica McNutt, and Kazeem Famuyide, and the guest list stretches well past the hardwood: Stephen A. Smith, Kevin Hart, Katt Williams, Dwyane Wade, and J. Cole have all pulled up. The show's own tagline puts it best: 7PM isn't a time, it's a destination.

Who Melo is

Anthony spent his career as one of the purest scorers the NBA has seen, a guy whose mid-range game and shot-making under pressure carried him to All-Star selections year after year. He won Olympic gold with Team USA, and by the time he wrapped up stops with the Knicks, Thunder, Rockets, and Trail Blazers, his name was permanently in the conversation about the greatest scorers in league history. That's not just chatter, it's the throughline that runs across almost every episode of his show, even when the topic wanders into comedy, music, or fatherhood.

What comes through in the show itself is how much Melo functions as a connector. He's the guy who can sit across from Gilbert Arenas and get into an honest debate about who scored better, him or Kevin Durant, then turn around and swap stories with T.I. about legacy and independence. He's comfortable enough in his own history to let other people needle him about it, which is its own kind of confidence. In Gilbert Arenas on Gil's Arena Beef, Arenas argues Melo's scoring ability outranks Durant's, and Melo doesn't shy away from the conversation. In Jeremy Lin & Melo Finally Break Silence on Linsanity, he sits with Lin to finally address one of the more talked-about chapters of his Knicks tenure directly, which says something about a willingness to revisit his own history instead of steering around it.

He also clearly still has a stake in the Knicks specifically. Episodes with Rasheed Wallace and Mikal Bridges both dig into the "Knicks tape era" and championship pressure in ways that only make sense coming from someone who wore that jersey and still feels tied to it.

How you might know him beyond the podcast

Beyond the highlight reels, Anthony has stayed visible since retiring from the NBA, showing up across sports media, documentaries, and now as a host in his own right. If you followed his career at all, from Syracuse to the Nuggets draft night to the Olympic runs, you already have a sense of the guy: a scorer first, someone who takes basketball history seriously, and someone who clearly still enjoys being in the room where basketball and culture overlap.

You can follow him directly on Twitter/X and Instagram, and the show itself has its own accounts on Twitter/X, Instagram, and TikTok.

Worth noting for anyone checking in on the show right now: 7PM in Brooklyn is still listed as active in the directory, though the release pace has slowed a bit lately. Its most recent new episode went up July 27, 2026, so there's a bit of a gap since the last drop, but the show hasn't been marked done.

7PM in Brooklyn works because Melo isn't performing a persona he doesn't have. He built a career on being one of the best scorers of his generation, and now he's built a show on being the guy everyone from Team USA teammates to comedians to rappers wants to sit down with. That's a pretty natural next act.