Darko Milicic, Now An Apple Farmer In Serbia, Responds To Carmelo Anthony And Dwyane Wade Clowning Him For Being A Bust

It is a minor miracle that Darko Milicic caught wind of the shit-talk spewed by Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade from his 125-acre apple farm in Serbia.

The former number 2 pick in an absurdly stacked 2003 draft class that included LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh is widely considered to be the Ryan Leaf of the NBA.

The 7-footer entered the league when he was just 18 and played for six teams in 10 seasons, retiring with career averages of 6.0 points and 4.2 rebounds per game.

Last week, Melo and Wade went on Instagram Live to try to make us forget NBA is gone, and in doing so, brought up the fact that Detroit picked Darko over Melo with the number 2 pick.

Melo pretended to not know Darko even existed.

https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1243686196582236161?s=20

Carmelo, who remains ringless (Darko has a ring with the 2004 Pistons), then claimed that if Detroit chose him instead, he would have had more than a couple rings.

https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1243689066090151937?s=20

Darko, now a 34-year-old who spends $8 million on his apple farm and produces over 10,000 pounds of fruit per year, said this weekend during an interview with b92.net that he wishes his foes peace and prosperity.

“As for these stories, so if my story is not told, thank God they have succeeded—I have not. We are not kids, we are adults. I hope you are ripe to understand that life is full of ups and downs. … I consider myself less good guys, it is not necessary to judge and ridicule when, thank God, you have not passed the path that I am. To them, as always, I wish everyone good and every honor in their careers and in further life a lot of success and less condemnation.”

I guess it’s easy to have this enlightened mindset when you made $52 million in your career and was the youngest player to ever win an NBA title.

Congrats to Darko on finding a passion he actually enjoys.

[h/t Complex]