BALTIMORE — Wearing a medal for meritorious service hung around his neck by Mayor Catherine E. Pugh, Carmelo Anthony decided the time had come on Wednesday for him to break his months of relative silence.
“I felt the pressure to come say a couple words,” Anthony said. “It was only right.”
Anthony, 33 years old and 25 years removed from his relocation from Brooklyn to Baltimore, spoke on behalf of a local basketball tournament while on stage in West Baltimore at the Robert C. Marshall Recreation Center, where he spent years as a young athlete across several sports.