ポートランド・トレイルブレイザーズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ポートランド・トレイルブレイザーズInstagram)「Carmelo Anthony didn’t want to take any chances during the postponement of the 2019-20 regular season. He didn’t know if, let alone when, NBA basketball might return, but he wanted to be ready in the event that it did. So rather than kicking back and indulging while on hiatus, Anthony rededicated himself. “For me, it was just more about kind of just locking in,” said Anthony. “We had so much time off that we didn’t know what was going on, so for me, I had an opportunity to kind of play with some things. Play with my diet, play with my workouts and training. Again, we didn’t know what was going to be the outcome of us coming back and when we was coming back. After we stopped in March, I just kept it going.” The result? Skinny Melo, as his teammates have taken to calling him, which is just the latest in a string of Melo iterations. “I take it as a compliment, I take it as a testament to the work that I’ve been able to put in, just the extreme focus that I’ve had over these past couple month,” said Anthony of his new moniker. “Every summer it’s a different name for me. This summer it’s ‘Skinny Melo,’ there’s ‘Hoodie Melo,’ ‘USA Melo,’ there’s so many different Melos out there. But at the end of the day, I’m me. I knew how important this was for us coming back and how locked in we had to be.” Anthony noted that he’s only lost about five pounds and that the change in his physique is due more to “redistribution” than cutting weight. That redistribution was well timed considering he’s likely to start at small forward during Portland’s eight seeding games in Orlando after playing the majority of his last two seasons at power forward. “Once coach told me I would be switching back to the three, I kind of challenged myself to get down to the weight where I feel comfortable playing the three, comfortable running around,” Anthony said. “That was a big motivation for me.”」7月23日 10時57分