Despite long being considered a member of the Banana Boat Crew, Carmelo Anthony was not in the original photo. While friends LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade sat atop an inflatable banana on a vacation in 2015, it was Wade’s wife Gabrielle Union, not Anthony, taking up the fourth spot in the almost instantly viral photograph.
Even still, the quartet of friends has long been linked together when it came to free agency and trade rumors. While James and Wade, obviously, played together in Miami for multiple years and for a half-season in Cleveland, neither Paul nor Anthony had teamed up with their friends on an NBA court.