Easy answer should be no.

A longer answer would detail the storied franchise that is the New York Knicks and that they retire the jerseys of players who actually did something significant there.

Melo was a ball hog, got his points, and barely got past the 1st Rd once in his time there. Not everyone, hometown kid or not, deserves a jersey retirement.

I also believe he shouldn’t have his Jersey retired in Denver either

One player played in the “no zone defense” era but to be fair his competition also played against him in that era as well, but there was only one MJ (a a nice 2 year stretch from Hakeem) that was winning it all usually.

The other is a team hopper who stacked the deck in a historically bad eastern conference to win not 1, but 2 titles until he abandoned ship and then got 1 thanks to a Bogut injury and Draymond touching his nuts, and then abandoned ship once more to where he’s at now:

Winning us a nice chip in DisneyWorld and now we’re a meme.