Carmelo Anthony had waited for the chance to get back in the game, spending more than a year sidelined from the NBA before the Portland Trail Blazers finally came calling this season. And then 50 games into his comeback, the league was shut down, leaving questions of how Anthony, who turned 36 in the time the league was away, would respond.
He took up the social causes that have marked much of his professional career. But he also hosted celebrity podcasts called, “What’s in your glass?” in which he sifted through wine preferences, hardly the sort of reassuring hint of what kind of condition he might be when play resumed.