Carmelo Anthony invites Jeremy Lin on podcast to address years-long Knicks beef

Carmelo Anthony said he wants to “clear the air” with his former Knicks teammate Jeremy Lin more than a decade after “Linsanity” took over New York in 2012.During Monday’s installment of the “7PM In Brooklyn” podcast, Anthony invited Lin to come on his podcast to “speak the truth” — but Anthony offered no other explanation.“Jeremy Lin, I’m giving you my invite to come sit on the couch,” Anthony said.“Let’s have a conversation, let’s clear the air on a lot of bullshit that’s out there please.

And I love what you’re doing right now, man … Come speak the truth.”Knicks faithful know that rumblings of a reported feud came about during Lin’s rise to fame during the 2011-12 season.At the time, Lin led the Knicks to 10 wins in 13 games when he averaged over 22 points and nine assists after the Knicks called him up.Anthony was dealing with a groin injury at the time.

After that season, Anthony made waves when he called Lin’s Houston Rockets contract offer — three years and $25 million — “ridiculous,” which led to reports that he was jealous of Lin’s fast success and it was disrupting what he was trying to build in New York.Anthony has discussed the matter on multiple occasions.During a May 2024 installment of his podcast, Anthony and Baron Davis, who was a member of the 2012 Knicks team, said they were supportive of Lin’s fame behind closed doors.“People always talk about … nobody liked the Linsanity … personally me, you get what I’m saying? They throw that out there,” Anthony said. “But people don’t know that, behind the scenes, we were very supportive of this.“… Linsanity could have been a $100 million business easy and I’m trying to get this through to him,” Anthony recalled.

“He was like, ‘Nah, I’m not brought up on that, my parents.But I respected that.

I hear that, matter of fact, bring your parents in here, let us talk to them… It was [happening] so fast.”Davis added, “Yeah...