NBA Draft: Redrafting the Draft Class of 2003

#3 With the 3rd pick in the draft, the Denver Nuggets select Carmelo Anthony

Anthony is considered to be one of the best players in recent times

New fans of the game have joined on the Melo-roasting social media bandwagon today, but we have to retain some respect for his achievements with eminently mediocre rosters through the length of his career.

As a pure scorer, Hoodie Melo ranks right there among the greatest ever in the game - he is the only player to ever post a 50+ points total in a game without obtaining a single one of them from inside the paint.

Anthony has career averages of 24.1 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.0 steals per game.

He's made 10 All-Star teams, six All-NBA teams and has a scoring title for the 2012-13 regular season. He is one of the few players in the game who was elite from all 3 ranges, at literally any position on the half-court set.

Unfortunately, he played in the Western Conference during the time of the dominance of Kobe, Duncan and Steve Nash, which means he went past the first round just once back then.

He then moved to the New York Knicks at the trade deadline in 2011 and was a part of several terrible Knicks teams which failed to make the playoffs for his last four seasons there largely due to front office blunders.

He is now an inefficient chucker who couldn't fit well into the Oklahoma City Thunder, but he could do much better in a better setting and a coach willing to run some plays for him. I will personally remember him for having the wettest jumper in the league during his heyday.