Kiyan Anthony has determined to hold on his household legacy.
Throughout his look on his father Carmelo Anthony’s podcast “7PM in Brooklyn” on Friday, Kiyan formally introduced the place he will likely be going to school. Kiyan has determined to decide to Syracuse, his father’s alma mater.
“[I was] simply Syracuse and seeing what may very well be finished over there,” stated Kiyan of his resolution. “They have already got prime folks coming in who I’m shut with, a younger teaching workers that I can hook up with. [They’re] near dwelling, [a] 45-minute flight. And within the ACC, they play Duke, [North] Carolina, they play all the great colleges.”
Syracuse’s official males’s basketball web page on X additionally rapidly reacted to the information of Kiyan’s resolution with a welcome submit.
The 17-year-old Kiyan is a taking pictures guard and a consensus four-star recruit. Per 247Sports, he’s rated because the No. 1 recruit from the state of New York for the category of 2025 and averaged 19.6 factors per sport on Nike EYBL circuit this previous spring. The son of the 10-time NBA All-Star Carmelo and ex-wife La La, Kiyan named six finalists for his college commitment over the summer time earlier than whittling that down to just two earlier this month.
In the long run, nonetheless, Kiyan has determined to decide to Syracuse and play for head coach Adrian Autry, who succeeded Jim Boeheim in 2023. The Orange appeared just like the front-runner all alongside for Kiyan. In spite of everything, Carmelo was a legend for Syracuse, serving to make them the 2003 NCAA title (their just one so far) because the Last 4 Most Excellent Participant. Now some 20 years later, there’ll as soon as once more be an Anthony suiting up for the Orange.