Carmelo Anthony Says Stevie Wonder Told Him He Loved Watching Him Play

Carmelo Anthony says Stevie Wonder — who, newsflash, is blind — as soon as instructed him he liked WATCHING him play basketball.

The hilarious revelation got here on Melo’s “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast … when the hooper was requested by co-host The Child Mero for the identify of somebody well-known who expressed their fandom of the longer term Corridor of Famer.

That is when Melo started to inform the story of his 2011 assembly with the legendary musician over All-Star Weekend.

“We in the [locker room], ‘Yo, Stevie Wonder wanna meet the players,'” Anthony defined. “I come out, [Stevie] said, ‘I love watching you play!'”

Okay, so what? Melo’s deadly with a basketball in his fingers. Everybody likes watching him play.   Solely subject is … Stevie misplaced his eyesight as a new child.

Everybody on the present busted out laughing … however Melo swore the interplay actually went down the way in which he instructed it.

Jokes apart, Wonder is among the best musicians of all time … with tens of millions of data bought and nearly each award to his identify, together with 25 Grammys (most by a male solo artist).

The 74-year-old can also be within the R&B Music Corridor of Fame and Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame … and was honored with the President Medal of Freedom in 2014.