Euro 2024 star Jamal Musiala reveals goal celebration inspired by an NBA icon

Jamal Musiala continued his torrid start to the 2024 European Championship, scoring his second goal of the competition in Germany’s 2-0 win over Hungary. But judging by his celebration, fans would have thought he had made a long-range 3-pointer in the NBA.

After opening the scoring in the 22nd minute of Wednesday’s game, Musiala performed the “3 to the dome” gesture, a celebration that former star forward Carmelo Anthony made his own during his 19-year NBA career.

When asked where the inspiration behind the celebration came from, Musiala revealed that he imitated Anthony’s signature move, telling BILD: “It came from basketball. From Carmelo (Anthony).”

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Interestingly enough, Anthony was not the original mastermind behind the “3 at the Dome” celebration. The creator of the gesture was actually Rasheed Wallace, who played alongside the future Hall of Famer for the New York Knicks.

According to The Athletic, Anthony and Wallace were exchanging trash talk during practice during the 2012-13 season when the latter began to catch fire behind the arc. In an attempt to get into his opponent’s head, Wallace repeatedly hit his now famous celebration saying, “It’s 3 for the dome.”

Soon after, Anthony adopted the celebration as his own, regularly making the gesture after many of the 1,731 3-pointers he made during his career. Despite seemingly stealing the celebration from Wallace, former Knicks star Iman Shumpert claimed there was no bad blood between the two men.

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“People don’t realize, Melo making the three to the head, how it started was Rasheed Wallace,” Shumpert told Shams Charania of The Athletic in 2020. “He always had a 3-point celebration. He started it 3 to the head, then Sheed was injured.

“But Sheed started it. And it was funny because Melo, of course, says, “Come on man, it’s Melo man”… once God does it, everyone goes thug with it. So everyone says, “Yo, Melo three to the head!” “We all thought it was funny…And Sheed comes in one day…and he says, ‘Melo, I’m not even going to charge you for this.’

Musiala himself is an avid NBA fan, with the Golden State Warriors being his favorite team. But it’s on the football field – not the basketball court – that the Bayern Munich midfielder excels most.