Carmelo Anthony reveals emotional wish for his son Kiyan

It’s been a little over two decades since the Syracuse Orange had Carmelo Anthony leading them to the national championship. Now, his son Kiyan will try to do the same.

Needless to say, that will be way easier said than done, and while he’s a highly-touted prospect, he’s not the same five-star phenom his old man was back in his heyday.

Even so, basketball isn’t the most important thing for the Anthonys, or at least not for Melo. Talking on his podcast, he got emotional and talked about how he hopes his son wants to be like him one day. Not as a hooper but as a man.

Carmelo Anthony hopes his son wants to be like him

“That’s my first superhero. I want to be like my dad… So when it’s time for them to look in the mirror and say, Do I, can I be this? Am I that? Am I on my way to being that? Or in my way to being better than that? It’s a self-check that you got to look in the mirror, and you want to say that. I want to be like my dad,” Anthony said.

Carmelo Anthony

“And I think for me, that’s what I look forward to. I don’t want you to tell me right now. Like let’s sit down and have a glass of wine later and you tell me how you truly feel… Then I could judge and see if I did the right thing based off of what me and you have that conversation on.”

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Of course, no one’s perfect, and fathers will always want their sons to do better than they, but even though Anthony had his fair share of controversies in the past, he’s always been there for his son.

Basketball aside, that’s all anybody can ask from their father. Kiyan is just walking the first steps in his career, and it’ll be interesting to see how he fares once it’s all said and done.