Carmelo Anthony never won a championship or even reached the NBA Finals during his 19 seasons in the NBA, but the popular former Knicks forward deservedly will reach the personal pinnacle of the sport when he is enshrined Saturday into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame .

The 10-time All-Star and the 10th all-time leading scorer in NBA history — who played in New York from 2011-17 — was voted in on his first try after amassing 28,289 points for a career average of 22.5 per game, including a league-best 28.7 ppg for the 2012-13 Knicks.

That team won 54 regular-season games and advanced to the second round of the playoffs for the only time over a dreadful 22-season stretch that lasted from 2000-2022.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people over the past week and over time since the nomination

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