Carmelo Anthony’s Son Kiyan Commits to Syracuse, Dad’s Alma Mater

Carmelo Anthony’s son is following in his footsteps — however carving his personal path!

Seventeen-year-old Kiyan, a top-40 males’s basketball recruit, has lastly introduced his school resolution, committing to his dad’s alma mater, Syracuse College, over his different high contenders.

The one youngster of Carmelo, 40, and ex-wife La La Anthony shared his long-awaited resolution on dad Carmelo’s podcast, 7PM in Brooklyn, on Friday, Nov. 15.

After steadily narrowing down from a listing of 10 faculties since his sophomore 12 months (leading to a high three of Syracuse, Auburn and USC), Kiyan has determined to attend the New York school — which owes a lot of its solely NCAA Championship win to his father — the teenager revealed.

Reacting to Kiyan’s large information on the podcast, La La, 42, mentioned she is “overwhelmed” however “completely happy ‘trigger he is completely happy.”

“I believe it is an unimaginable resolution,” she defined. “They’re an unimaginable college they usually actually labored arduous in recruiting and simply making him really feel like a precedence. They had been nice, and I imply, it is large sneakers to fill. However on the identical time, that is his second and his lane and it is time for him to create his personal.”

Plus, she added, it doesn’t harm that Kiyan will solely be a five-hour drive — or 45-minute flight — away from her.

Carmelo, in the meantime, expressed his pleasure that Kiyan had reached a choice after plenty of “flip-flopping.”

“I am glad that he determined to make this resolution,” the previous NBA star mentioned, as La La chimed in, “And I believe it is necessary to say like, Kiyan actually made this resolution.”

“Mel,” she added, “simply gave him enter on all the colleges” — not stress to select his alma mater.

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Talking with ESPN about his school resolution, Kiyan mentioned that “in the end, it got here all the way down to my relationship with the [Syracuse] workers.”

“From day one, once they began recruiting me, they made me really feel prefer it was household,” he advised the outlet. “My dad’s identify on the ability is particular, however I wish to go in there and create my very own identify, and I’ve already accomplished that by way of my dedication within the offseason, with early-morning practices, taking part in at camps, taking part in on the circuit.”

Kiyan additionally mentioned the fixed comparisons he has obtained to dad Carmelo — one of many NBA’s all-time scorers — from the second he first picked up a basketball.

“The battle was actual, particularly in center college and my freshman 12 months in highschool,” he advised ESPN. “I did not know what I used to be doing then, however I began listening to my dad. I trusted his phrases, established a routine and started to vary into my very own participant.”

“The most important distinction between me and my dad is that he was a straight-up bucket, a straight-up bully,” the teenager added. “He might rating on you at will. I’ve scoring skill and I can create for others.”