Melo shops TV talker
ONE reason Carmelo
Anthony wants to stay in New York with the Knicks is that he’s been pitching a reality show about his work as a political activist.
It would be a weekly halfhour show of Anthony discussing issues with other civic-minded celebrities and going to meetings and rallies.
Anthony, an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter issues, hosted a town hall meeting on police brutality in South Los Angeles last July.
The perennial All-Star has a no-trade contract with the Knicks and seems intent on staying, even though Knicks president Phil Jackson has said he’d
“be better off some- where else” and “We’ve not been able to win with him on the court.”
It is doubtful Anthony could shoot a reality TV series about his political activism if he played in a smaller market such as Cleveland (where trade rumors have popped up).
Sources said Anthony pitched the show to HBO and other cable networks.
One cable exec told me, “We take dozens of meetings every year from folks with programming ideas. I cannot say if it’s moving forward or say it’s stalled. We had a meeting. Nothing else.”
The new show would be a far cry from his earlier foray into reality TV, his wife’s “La La’s Full Court Life,” which ran for five seasons on VH1.
Melo and wife La La separated in April after it was reported that the NBA star got another woman pregnant. But neither party has filed for divorce.
Anthony’s publicist had no comment.