Kiyan Anthony

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Kiyan Anthony
No. 7–Long Island Lutheran Crusaders
Position Shooting guard
Personal information
Born (2007-03-07) March 7, 2007 (age 17)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight177 lb (80 kg)
Career information
High school

Kiyan Carmelo Anthony (born March 7, 2007) is an American basketball player. [1] He is the first child of former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Carmelo Anthony and television personality La La Anthony. [2] Anthony primarily plays the shooting guard position. [3]

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Early life

Anthony was born on March 7, 2007, [4] to Carmelo Anthony and his wife Alani "La La" Vazquez. [5] His father is a former NBA player who played for several teams, including the Denver Nuggets, the New York Knicks, and the Los Angeles Lakers. His mother is an actress and producer who has appeared in various films and television shows, such as Power, Think Like a Man, and La La’s Full Court Life. [6]

High school career

Anthony is a senior basketball player at Long Island Lutheran High School in New York, where he transferred from Christ the King High School in Queens in 2023. [7] He plays as a shooting guard and a forward.

He has been a standout performer for his high school team and his AAU team, Team Melo, [8] which is sponsored by his father. He is ranked as one of the top shooting guards in the class of 2025 by ESPN [1] and other recruiting services.

In 2023, he signed a name, image and likeness (NIL) deal with PSD. [9]

Recruiting

Anthony has received many offers from Division I college basketball programs, including Indiana, [10] Michigan, Florida State, Illinois, Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, Memphis, and Tennessee. [11] He is also interested in Syracuse, where his father won a national championship in 2003. He has visited Syracuse on an official recruiting visit in October 2023, where he posed in a Syracuse jersey with his father and met with head coach Adrian Autry. On November 15, 2024 Kiyan announced he will be committing to Syracuse for his collegiate basketball career. [12]

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