4-star guard Kiyan Anthony — the oldest son of former NBA legend Carmelo Anthony — has pledged to play at his father’s alma mater of Syracuse, he introduced Friday. 247Sports’ No. 34 participant within the 2025 recruiting class picked the Orange over USC and Auburn
The elder Anthony performed one season at Syracuse, guiding the Orange to this system’s solely nationwide title. His 2003 NCAA Event run is extensively thought-about one of many biggest performances within the historical past of the occasion.聽
Regardless of the deep household ties, Kiyan’s resolution has extra to do with the long run than the previous.聽
“I selected Syracuse as a result of the coaches recruited me from day one,” Anthony advised 247Sports. “They actually confirmed me they have been recruiting me for who I used to be and that it had nothing to do with my Dad. I might see the imaginative and prescient with Sadiq (White) going over there and being some of the athletic folks within the class, an abroad guard coming, and the potential of seniors like JJ Starling and Chris Bell coming again. Subsequent, we simply want a giant man. From the imaginative and prescient and what they’re telling me my function may very well be, all of it made sense. USC was proper there with them I am not going to lie. There was some extent the place I used to be about to decide on USC however I stored speaking with my dad and mom and in the end determined with Cuse.”
The Lengthy Island Lutheran Excessive Faculty (Glen Head, New York) product is Syracuse’s fourth dedication within the 2025 recruiting class, becoming a member of four-star ahead Sadiq White Jr., four-star guard Luke Fennell and three-star ahead Aaron Womack. The Orange now have the No. 5 recruiting class within the 2025 cycle behind Duke, UConn, Kentucky and Notre Dame, in keeping with 247Sports.
“On the finish of the day, I am my very own individual,” Kiyan mentioned. “I am not attempting to technically fulfill every little thing my dad did on the program I am simply attempting to create my very own lane and present folks I may also hoop. I need to get to it, lead the workforce, and be a very good teammate. I am not getting into there with the mindset of I should be higher than my dad. That is clearly the purpose however I simply need to win, have enjoyable, and revel in faculty.”聽
247Sports’ director of scouting Adam Finkelstein tasks a shiny future for Kiyan.聽
General, Anthony already has a complicated sport and a confirmed monitor file of continuous to make notable enhancements with every passing season. There’s loads of potential to proceed ascending too as he will get stronger, embraces the main points on the defensive finish of the ground, and turns into extra environment friendly offensively by choosing his spots and enhancing his shot choice with out dominating the ball so often.
Kiyan is the most recent son of an NBA star to pledge his faculty dedication. Most notably Bronny James, the son of LeBron James, dedicated to USC in Might 2023. James performed his freshman season with the Trojans earlier than declaring for the 2024 NBA Draft, the place he was chosen聽No. 55 general by the Los Angeles Lakers.聽Justin Pippen, the son of former聽NBA legend Scottie Pippen,聽is a freshman at Michigan.
