During the Oklahoma City Thunder media day, Carmelo Anthony showed up wearing a charcoal hoodie underneath his new Thunder jersey. It looks like OKC got "Hoodie Melo" in the trade. One reporter dared to suggest that Hoodie Melo would be coming off the bench.
"Who me?" Hoodie Melo asked.
After laughing at that statement, the NBA 2K18 98th ranked player responded saying, "I don't know where that started, where that came from. Aye P, they said I gotta come off the bench!"
During the conference, Melo told the origin story of his famous alter ego.
"It started with a beanie like I was just in the gym and I didn't have a haircut, and I was like, 'I'm just gonna go and throw a hat on. I wanted to sweat, and I just started working back out in the summer," he explained. "From there, it went to a hoodie, and it got out, and the phenomenon started."
"For me, it was just about showing a different focus that I have, a different motivation, and just locking into what I have to do. And locking myself in the gym, and locking myself into focusing in on my body, because I didn't know what was going to happen. It was so much going on that was surrounding me that I just wanted to find a way that I can just focus in, and that's when Hoodie Melo was created."
