“Skinny Melo” has the people buzzing at Disney World.
Carmelo Anthony joined the Portland Trail Blazers in Orlando this week looking dramatically slimmer than what he looked like before the NBA shut down its season.
For reference, here’s what Anthony looked like in late February:
And here’s what he looks like now:
That appears to be quite the difference.
Anthony told ESPN’s Royce Young that the slimming down was spurred by a position change from power forward to small forward. The Blazers are poised to have both Jusuf Nurkic and Zach Collins back and starting when play begins again, but will be without Trevor Ariza after the veteran opted out of the reboot to spend time with his son.