Before Carmelo Anthony was selected by the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft, he was gifted with his first-ever watch.
He didn’t give it much thought, the star recalls while relaxing on a blue, tufted couch in the backroom of Material Good, a luxury retail concept store in Soho. “I gave it to my brother,” says the Knicks forward, who adds that he then promptly forgot about the generous present.
