I also agree with this quote. This city is crazy, manic depression personified. UKers on this board who live here know that, UKers who don't live here now but used to know that and said "**** New York" with their feet. Millions of dollars and even championships do not guarantee happiness, case in point another New Yorker: Lamar Odom.
I don't question Melo's New Yorker credentials, even if he's from West Baltimore. His parents are from here, his wife's family too. He's Black & Boricua and literally wears the city on his chest and is the face of New York basketball. That's pretty New York to me. He's no Marbury — that Isola anecdote alone was so NY — but Marbury is on his "Fuck New York ****" right now in China.
I'll grant he should keep it in perspective the struggles of poor folks in all the places he's been: NYC, B-more, PR. He acknowledges that the heights he can get here are amazing, but so are the lows, even for a rich dude like him. I totally feel that quote, it's real talk.