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The Daily OrangeMBB | Former star Anthony to return to Dome for preseason game
By John Clayton
Posted: 6/12/08, 5:02 PM EST Section: Sports
One of Syracuse basketball's most iconic figures will return to the Carrier Dome court this fall.
Carmelo Anthony, the forward who led Syracuse to a national championship in 2003 in his only season at the school, will make his second appearance in the Dome since leaving SU when his Denver Nuggets take on the Phoenix Suns in an NBA preseason game Friday, Oct. 17.
The event was first reported in the Rocky Mountain News Wednesday, and was confirmed Thursday by representatives from the Nuggets and the Syracuse athletic department.
It will be the second preseason game Anthony has taken part in at the Dome. The first was in 2003, when the then-rookie's Nuggets played the Detroit Pistons. This will be the eighth NBA preseason game in the Dome and the first since that matchup.
In the past year, Anthony has taken pains to cement his legacy at SU, pledging $3 million toward the building of a state-of-the-art basketball practice facility adjacent to Manley Field House that will bear his name. The Carmelo K. Anthony Center is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2009.
"I am a lot more excited about this upcoming preseason knowing that I get to go back and play in the Dome again," Anthony told SUathletics.com regarding the event. "Syracuse and the Dome are special places for me. It will be great to come back and play in front of everyone again."
Tickets for the game will go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster locations as well as the Carrier Dome box office.
The event will be promoted by One-on-One Basketball Inc., a basketball training and promotions company based out of Washington D.C.
"(Carmelo) has a perpetual, folk hero status (in Syracuse)," said Chris Cordes, One-on-One's New York State Director who is primarily responsible for negotiating and promoting the event. "He helped bring something first, to the program, and second, to the entire community that had never been done before and can never be taken he away. So he's always going to be identified with that."
Carmelo Anthony, the forward who led Syracuse to a national championship in 2003 in his only season at the school, will make his second appearance in the Dome since leaving SU when his Denver Nuggets take on the Phoenix Suns in an NBA preseason game Friday, Oct. 17.
The event was first reported in the Rocky Mountain News Wednesday, and was confirmed Thursday by representatives from the Nuggets and the Syracuse athletic department.
It will be the second preseason game Anthony has taken part in at the Dome. The first was in 2003, when the then-rookie's Nuggets played the Detroit Pistons. This will be the eighth NBA preseason game in the Dome and the first since that matchup.
In the past year, Anthony has taken pains to cement his legacy at SU, pledging $3 million toward the building of a state-of-the-art basketball practice facility adjacent to Manley Field House that will bear his name. The Carmelo K. Anthony Center is tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of 2009.
"I am a lot more excited about this upcoming preseason knowing that I get to go back and play in the Dome again," Anthony told SUathletics.com regarding the event. "Syracuse and the Dome are special places for me. It will be great to come back and play in front of everyone again."
Tickets for the game will go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster locations as well as the Carrier Dome box office.
The event will be promoted by One-on-One Basketball Inc., a basketball training and promotions company based out of Washington D.C.
"(Carmelo) has a perpetual, folk hero status (in Syracuse)," said Chris Cordes, One-on-One's New York State Director who is primarily responsible for negotiating and promoting the event. "He helped bring something first, to the program, and second, to the entire community that had never been done before and can never be taken he away. So he's always going to be identified with that."
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Johnny
posted 6/30/08 @ 11:05 AM EST
This is all very amusing combined with the email i got from the dome to buy tickets for 'Melo and whatnot. It would be somewhat humorous if he was traded by then. (Continued…)
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