{"id":146500,"date":"2020-05-05T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=146500"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:45:32","slug":"melo-anthony-before-signing-with-portland-i-hit-rock-bottom-emotionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/melo-anthony-before-signing-with-portland-i-hit-rock-bottom-emotionally\/","title":{"rendered":"Melo Anthony: Before signing with Portland I hit rock bottom emotionally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carmelo Anthony talks about the period he was without a team, before signing with the Portland Trail Blazers. (Transcription via <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2890157-carmelo-anthony-says-he-hit-rock-bottom-before-signing-trail-blazers-contract\">the Bleacher Report<\/a>).<br \/>\nI hit rock bottom emotionally, and I had to build myself back up\u2014basically by myself\u2014to get here where I&#8217;m at today to be able to tell this story.<br \/>\nGetting traded the day before media day to OKC. Going to OKC, actually really liking it, didn&#8217;t work out for whatever reason, to going to Houston the following year to playing nine games. The first time I&#8217;ve ever come off the bench in 15 years. Ever. So that was an adjustment for me. Leading to having a year off. &#8230; I don&#8217;t think nobody will understand what I went through emotionally to get through and to be where I&#8217;m at today. I&#8217;m talking about doubting myself. I&#8217;m talking about mentally wanting to give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Idt7qlAJpRc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year Melo averaged over 15 points and 6 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-146500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146500"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=146500"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=146500"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=146500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}