{"id":492085,"date":"2026-06-23T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:27:10","slug":"carmelo-anthony-timothee-chalamet-gets-favorite-white-boy-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492085\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmelo Anthony: Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet Gets ‘Favorite White Boy’ Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBasketball Hall of Famer and entrepreneur Carmelo Anthony<\/a> weighed in on the New York Knicks\u2019 historic championship win, the unifying power of sports and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>\u2018s fervent fandom during a high-spirited conversation with Variety\u2019s co-president and co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh at Cannes Lions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe former Knicks player, who was speaking as part of\u00a0Variety\u00a0and Google TV\u2019s Industry Innovators Cocktail Hour\u00a0event on the rooftop of the Five Seas Hotel, reminisced about interviewing Chalamet on his \u201c7PM\u00a0in Brooklyn\u201d podcast in December.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI actually gave him an award \u2014 my \u2018Favorite White Boy\u2019 award,\u201d Anthony joked. \u201cHe was happy about that. He appreciated because I shined some light on what he really wanted in that moment.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAsked by fellow New Yorker Setoodeh to give his pick for the best celebrity fan, Anthony said: \u201cWe have the OGs \u2014 the Spike Lees, the Ben Stillers of the world. Then we have this new generation, like Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet \u2014 he\u2019s running around representing the Knicks to the fullest. And then you have the Fat Joes, who\u2019ve been supporting the Knicks for a long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnthony said the Knicks finally winning the championship has \u201creignited the city of New York, from sports to businesses to kids. All industries feel like they have a newfound energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo be honest, New York has been struggling, trying to get over the hump and figure out what\u2019s next as a whole,\u201d Anthony added. \u201cWhat the Knicks were able to do is prove that sports unifies a lot of things and people. It brings everything together, and it may be one of the only things out there that unifies everybody like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe athlete-turned-businessman also discussed his transition to podcast host, which he sees as an opportunity to be a \u201cbuilder.\u201d \u201cI get a chance to build something \u2014 to build a community and add to the culture, to be an authentic voice in our culture. I have that access, and I get to hold the door open and give people access to come in and be part of what\u2019s actually going on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnthony said his experience joining the NBA<\/a> as a rookie at 19 years old, and then playing for 19 years, has given him the tools to become a businessman. \u201cI learned how to deal with organizations, organizational structure, understanding what the front office and execs need to do for us as players to be successful,\u201d he said. \u201cI was the face of a lot of brands. I was the subject of a lot of narratives. So now I get to step outside, shut that door, come over to this side and build something with that perspective and experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe podcasting space is just one of the many areas Anthony has explored in recent years with the goal of creating an \u201cecosystem where everything flows together \u2014 from wine to cigars to production.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe joked that the motivation behind his wine company, The Seventh Estate, came down to the fact that he \u201cjust got tired of spending money on wine.\u201d But really, it\u2019s a \u201cpassion project\u201d for the athlete. \u201cI\u2019m traveling, drinking wine with people, learning, and I thought, \u2018What if I could do this, build experiences and community out of grapes?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnthony recently attended the Tribeca Film Festival alongside his 19-year-old son Kiyan to present \u201cBorn Melo,\u201d a documentary biopic directed by Jake Rogal which he produced through his banner Creative 7 Productions. The doc sees Anthony reflect on his life and legacy as he is inducted into the Hall of Fame, as well as his relationship with Kiyan, who is playing basketball for the Syracuse Orange.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI couldn\u2019t tell my story while I was still going through my journey. I had to wait until I was done, then go back and put it all together with some perspective,\u201d he said, adding that the doc also gave him and his partners the impulse to rebrand their media company to start doing production.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy story\u2019s been written about me for the past 20 years, and now I have the opportunity to take control of that narrative \u2014 to show people behind the scenes of what it\u2019s like for me to be a man, a businessman, a father, a friend, a son,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the midst of my 19 years, I can\u2019t tell the story without talking about my son\u2019s journey, because he was part of it. I shut one door by going to the Hall of Fame, but he\u2019s opening another by following those same footsteps \u2014 going to Syracuse, playing basketball there, carving out his own path.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball Hall of Famer and entrepreneur Carmelo Anthony weighed in on the New York Knicks\u2019 historic championship win,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[245540,246601,430,156,246602,40340,111,139,69,60959],"class_list":["post-492085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes-lions","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-google-tv-industry-innovators","tag-nba","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-timothu00e9e-chalamet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}