What Carmelo Anthony wants NBA players to do after games instead of press conferences
Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Athletes moving into streaming is no longer a side story. It is becoming part of the way they speak directly to their audience. UFC stars Max Holloway and Renato Moicano, for instance, are active in that space, while Arman Tsarukyan has appeared on major influencer streams.
Boxing champion Ryan Garcia has also embraced live streaming. Basketball is moving the same way. Jaylen Brown and Scottie Barnes are among the NBA names already using streams to show personality and control their own message.
That wider shift gives Carmelo Anthony’s latest view extra weight, as the former 10-time NBA All-Star believes streams should replace post-match press conferences altogether. Carmelo Anthony says streaming is the new press conference Photo by Rich Barnes/Getty Images Speaking on “7PM in Brooklyn”, Melo made the case that players no longer need to hand their immediate reaction to traditional media settings. He said: “Why give a press conference to a company?
When I’m my own IP, I can go, do my own press conference. Streaming is a new press conference. “Right, nobody wanna sit in a room and answer questions on five, six, seven reporters.
They wanna get to the nitty gritty of it and face it face to face with your followers and the people who’s actually watching. They are the ones who really wanna ask the real questions. ” Replacing press conferences with streams still carries obvious risks The idea is modern, but it is not simple.