If Jared Dudley meant what he said, then why apologize for having an opinion? My take on the matter is that Dudley hasn’t accomplished half of what Carmelo Anthony has in basketball.
Dudley caught venom from every angle on Wednesday, after he said players avoid playing with Kobe Bryant, and then calling Carmelo Anthony the NBA’s most most overrated player.
Dudley backtracked yesterday, and on Thursday he apologized.
Dudley appeared on ESPN New York 98.7 FM’s “Hahn & Humpty Show” and apologized for calling Anthony the most overrated player in the league.
“I shouldn’t have said that that was my fault for saying that because it’s not the truth,” Dudley told hosts Alan Hahn and Rick DiPietro. “… I apologize for saying that about Carmelo.
“You get kind of frustrated at times seeing because of him having to make his other guys better and defensively certain things, but for me to say he’s the most overrated that was wrong for me to say. He’s arguably a top 3 or 4 scorer, between him (Kevin Durant) and (Russell Westbrook). But if you see, that’s not enough in this league. If [you’re] a No. 1 guy and you’re a max guy, this is a superstar league, you have to be able to do certain things.”
That was my argument yesterday in a nutshell.
Carmelo Anthony is a superstar, regardless of what he’s done in the playoff or how much better he’s made teammates.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but as a career 8.5 points per game scorer, Dudley’s opinion is meaningless so to speak.