The NBA legend Carmelo Anthony revealed he was abandoned by his son whilst at the 2024 Olympic Games as he flew back to New York to show off his basketball talents in the NY vs NY match.
Kiyan Anthony produced a standout display in the contest much to the surprise of onlookers, including his father who found about it after the fact after initially believing he wouldn’t be playing.
Kiyan, Carmelo Anthony’s son, shines with a spectacular dunk at the Bronx tournament
The New York Knicks icon and ex-Los Angeles Laker found out about his kid’s actions whilst he was still in the City of Love in Paris and was astounded, adding his son was not supposed to be playing at all.
“He wasn’t even supposed to play,” Anthony said of his son’s endeavors to 3 PM Brooklyn. “He’d just be popping up at parks and s*** like, jumping on n**ga’s teams,”
“What ended up happening, I guess he told them he was available that’s why the n***a left me from Paris.”
Kiyan prepares for college
Kiyan offered some great performances in the New York Basketball League at the age of 17 as the guard from Colorado prepares to graduate from Long Island Lutheran High School and has started shopping around college basketball.
With a three-time Olympic champion for a father and a man who recorded over 28000 points from 2003-2022 advising him, he has whittled his list of NCAA candidates down to six universities vying for his signature.
The Top-50 senior will look at Syracuse, where his father played, as well as Florida State, Ohio State, Rutgers, Auburn and USC as he prepares to make the final push to follow his father’s footsteps by graduating to the NBA.
Kiyan was born on March 7, 2007 to Anthony and his wife Alani Vazquez as their only child, meaning he has the full backing of his parents behind him and at 6ft 5in he’s already taller than pro NBA players such as Steph Curry.
