7PM in Brooklyn
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Carmelo Anthony and friends talk basketball and culture with big-name guests.
About 7PM in Brooklyn
7PM in Brooklyn is where basketball conversation goes to get real. Hosted by Carmelo Anthony and The Kid Mero, the show pairs a future Hall of Famer with one of the sharpest comedic voices in sports media — and the chemistry is the whole point. Melo brings the player’s perspective, earned over two decades at the top of the game. Mero brings the fan’s irreverence, the questions nobody else asks, and the timing to make serious moments land even harder.
The show arrived with real backing. Produced by Wave Sports + Entertainment — the outfit behind New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, Podcast P with Paul George, and The Right Time with Bomani Jones — 7PM in Brooklyn premiered on December 7, 2023, with new episodes dropping every Thursday on YouTube and across streaming platforms. Carmelo serves as executive producer through his Creative 7 Productions banner, which he runs with co-founder Asani Swann. This isn’t a vanity project; it’s a properly built show inside the most successful athlete-media operation in the business.
The Melo half of the equation is unimpeachable. Born May 29, 1984, in Brooklyn and raised in Baltimore, Carmelo Anthony led Syracuse to a national championship as a freshman in 2003, then stacked a 19-year NBA career — Nuggets, Knicks, Thunder, Rockets, Trail Blazers, Lakers — that included ten All-Star selections, three Olympic gold medals (2008, 2012, 2016), a scoring title in 2013, and a place on the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team. He retired in 2023 as one of the purest scorers the game has ever seen. When a guest sits across from Melo, they’re talking to someone who has seen everything they’re going through — and that’s why they open up.
The Mero half is just as essential. Joel Martinez — The Kid Mero, the self-styled “Merodamus” — came up in East Tremont in the Bronx as a die-hard Knicks fan, then built one of the great comedy careers of the digital era: the Bodega Boys podcast with Desus Nice, the beloved Desus & Mero late-night show on Viceland and then Showtime (2019–2022), and hosting work including Amazon’s Formula 1 programming. A decade-plus in entertainment made him a professional-grade interviewer who happens to be hilarious — the rare comedian who can land a joke and a follow-up question in the same breath.
The format is longform and unhurried: real conversations with the biggest names in and around basketball, the kind of sit-downs where guards come down because the hosts actually understand the world their guests live in. When DeVonta Smith stopped by to talk about the Eagles’ championship run and being underrated, it wasn’t a press junket — it was two people who respect the grind talking shop. That’s the show’s signature move: treating athletes like people instead of storylines.
What separates 7PM in Brooklyn from the crowded field of athlete interview shows is the balance. It’s funny without being a comedy show, insightful without being a lecture, and comfortable without being soft. Melo’s presence opens doors — guests talk to him peer-to-peer — and Mero’s presence keeps it honest, because he’ll say the thing the audience is thinking.
The Brooklyn in the title isn’t decoration. The show carries the borough’s energy: direct, stylish, allergic to pretense. Melo was born there; Mero’s whole persona was forged a few miles north in the Bronx. The name is a promise about the show’s posture — New York basketball culture, where the game is a language and everybody’s fluent. Episodes regularly drift from hoops into music, fashion, food, and neighborhood lore, because that’s how basketball actually lives in the city.
The show also represents the smartest version of the athlete-media boom. Instead of hot takes manufactured for engagement, 7PM in Brooklyn bets on something old-fashioned: good conversation. In a landscape full of shouting, a show where two knowledgeable hosts actually listen stands out — and the guests clearly feel the difference, because they keep coming back and saying more than they planned to.
Some of the show’s best moments come when Melo turns the lens on his own history. Revisiting the Denver years, the Madison Square Garden era, the Olympic runs — those segments play like an oral history of 2000s and 2010s basketball, told by someone who was in every big room. Mero’s fan-side questions unlock stories that never surfaced in postgame scrums, and the weekly rhythm means the show can react to the league in real time while still making space for the long, meandering conversations that produce the real gems.
Why people watch: because the conversations feel like the ones you wish postgame interviews were. Smart, funny, unguarded — basketball talk with the people who actually lived it, hosted by two guys who clearly love doing it.
Signature video
DeVonta Smith opens up on the Eagles’ championship run and the underrated label — the show’s longform formula at its best.
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