Let's stick with Melo And the first time we saw him going up against Lamelo.

Fans of Carmelo Anthony have often argued Lamelo ball shouldn't use the nickname Mellow out of respect for the future Hall of Famer.

But Carmelo seemingly squashed it.

Here he is after the game.

Take a listen.

You know, I think Lamelo.

Is is somebody who is going to be in this game for a long time so that the name mellow you guys might as well continue getting getting used to that or stay with it.

Um, I don't I don't get into that, though.

You know, it's it's for me.

It's a respect thing.

It's an honor, you know, for for for him to have that name for him, too.

Embrace it.

It's an honor.

It's a blessing.

It's a respect thing for me.

So, um, I embrace him.

You know, I I embrace them very gracious there from Carmelo Anthony, and today he's saying, Look, it's it's not, he's copying me, it's that he's doing it because he wants to be like, mellow exactly.

And I think that's a great point rage because it's not copycat.

Same name, same game like these guys couldn't be any more different.

Lamelo what he's been able to do his rookie season shooting deep threes, you know, nice passing versus Carmelo, you know, having that isolation game, the one dribble, lethal pull up in the mid range.

That's what his signature was.

So it's not the same name.

Same game, which is all wants to say that love mellow is the mellow to just stay educated on because I feel like I'm going to be one of those aunties are saying like, Get off my lawn.

If you're saying that the mellow is the next generation, I just love that, you know, it's more so one generation giving love to another.

So if they're cool with it, we can.

They can all be mellow.

Just make sure we divide and conquer.

You gotta stay mellow, right?

Zack?

We gotta be running.

We gotta be running out of things to argue about.

If this is some kind of controversy, I was not aware that there was any mellow, mellow controversy.

It's just a shortening of their first names.

They can both be mellow.

It's like only kind of a nickname, and today is right Lamelo ball.

First of all, you probably can wrap up rookie of the year right now.

Second of all, he's just a totally different player with his all around game, his assists, he throws.

It's not just like the baseball passes and the spectacular no look passes.

We can all see that he just throws these sort of cross court passes that are a bit different than most guys.

Even veteran pastors would throw that catch the defense off guard.

He's got something up there that is just different and unique, and it's so fun to watch so he can be mellow.

It's fine.

I didn't know this was a thing, to be honest.

Well, you know, there have been a thing Zack between other guys who shared nicknames.

I mean, those mobile, of course, is shock.

Who did not like Dwight Howard using the Superman nickname Big Shot Chauncey Billups and, of course, Robert Ory and Kmart.

Kenyon Martin, Kevin Martin.

So this is this has been a thing before and again graciousness by Carmelo Anthony.

So you know he's not pulling a shock here.

Zack, the Superman has got a nickname.

Superman is a character that other people you know took his name is that they're all Kmarts.

They're all Kmarts.

We're all Kmarts Now we're gonna wrap this discussion up.

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