$260M worth Carmelo Anthony and Ray Allen are two of George Karl‘s biggest failures

Ray Allen and Carmelo Anthony are two of the best players in the game who could have accomplished much more than they actually did.

They came into the league 7 years apart in two of the all-time great NBA Drafts in 1996 and 2003 respectively. Other than that, they only have two other things in common: They are both the top 75 NBA players of all time, and they played under head coach George Karl, but on separate occasions.

His legacy in the game is also completely different. While Ray helped his teams to several postseasons, he won two championships and was eliminated in the first round only twice in his career, Melo’s teams got past the first round only twice in his 13 postseasons.

Despite the fact that one of them is possibly the second best shooter in basketball history and the other one of the most prolific scorers of all time, his former coach believes that both legends are his biggest failures.

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George Karl considers $100 million Ray Allen and $160 million Carmelo Anthony his biggest failures

Karl is one of the best basketball coaches who never won a championship. The youngest head coach in NBA history was the sole owner of the Seattle Supersonics when the Milwaukee Bucks selected Ray with the fifth overall pick in 1996.

The 1995-96 season had ended with the Gary Payton-led Sonics losing to Michael Jordan’s Bulls in the NBA Finals. So George must have had his eyes on making Seattle champions in the coming seasons.

But they wouldn’t even make the playoffs for the next two years, which led to Karl being fired from the HC role in 1998. That sent him to Allen’s Bucks, where the shooting guard had already become a 20-PPG player in his career. second season. in the league

He failed to capitalize on his potential, despite making three consecutive postseason berths from 1999 to 2001. Two of those were first-round exits, leading Allen to join Karl’s previous team, the Supersonics.

Something similar happened when he landed another young superstar at the next job in Denver. The man just couldn’t get much out of Anthony’s six seasons under him, while the 10x All-Star was averaging more than 26 PPG. And yet, his teams failed to get past the first round in all (6) but one season.

The future Hall of Famer recently admitted his regret.

Does George Karl have career regrets as he heads into the Hall of Fame this weekend?@CoachKarl22 He says @JumpShot8 & @DarthAmin wishes he had done more with Carmelo Anthony and Ray Allen. pic.twitter.com/kLX2woRPiT

— SiriusXM NBA Radio (@SiriusXMNBA) September 7, 2022

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Seeing the similarity in both cases, Karl couldn’t get the best out of those teams.