Knicks' Anthony perpetuating a numerical problem in basketball society
It's become a trend in basketball to add the number 3 to a player's name whenever said player hits a shot from beyond the arc.
Danny Gr33n.
D3Marre Carroll.
It's clever (or at least it was until everyone started doing it). It's funny (or it was at one point). It makes sense (it still does). But the trend with the rest of the numbers has to stop.
In Jared Zwerling's piece on Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis over at Bleacher Report, we learned that Carmelo Anthony is as awful a numerical culprit as there is in existence. Here's a snippet from the piece:
Carmelo Anthony reached out to me after I got drafted. He said, "Congrats, welcome to the team." I didn't have his number, so I texted back, "Who's this?" And then a few minutes later, he said, "This is Melo" with his No. 7 as the "l."
Me7o? Really? That's ridiculous.
First of all, third-personing yourself is never appropriate unless you're Rickey Henderson -- sorry, I mean't Rick3y H3nd3rson. And second of all, you just can't do that Me7o.
Fudge stickers! Now he has me writing it.
Just because a 7 kind of resembles an upside down L, you think numerizing your name (yes, that's what we're calling it) is the way to go? Also, by implying that the L in your name is capitalized -- since lower-case "l" looks nothing like a 7 -- you'd have to spell your whole name in all caps for this to make even a little sense. Unless of course you're deciding you want to go by MeLo.
This trend has to stop, and it has to end now. It's not clever. It's not boasting when you do it to yourself. It's just nonsensical.
I blame Derek Jeter. I lost a lot of #Re2pect for that guy.
(h/t Bleacher Report.)
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