Speaker 1: I didn't bring this up, but I felt compelled to
Speaker 1: bring this up.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I've been pretty busy lately, politics, news, all of this
Speaker 1: other stuff, but I wanted to get to this story
Speaker 1: in light of the things that I've discussed about Lebron
Speaker 1: and Brownie. A few days ago, a little more than
Speaker 1: a week ago, there was a small headline in the
Speaker 1: world of college basketball. Kayane Anthony, a top forty recruit
Speaker 1: in the class of twenty twenty five, the son of
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony. Ladies and gentlemen, he committed to Syracuse, where
Speaker 1: his daddy played. For those of y'all who don't remember
Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony, remember Jim Baham all of those years forty
Speaker 1: years he coached at Syracuse. He had Sherman Douglas and
Speaker 1: Derek Coleman and Billy Owens and all of these cats.
Speaker 3: Okay, and let's not forget the.
Speaker 1: Greatest show in the history of college basketball, in my.
Speaker 3: Opinion, Dwayne Pearl Washington.
Speaker 4: Okay, anybody didn't know the basket well knows I'm right
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 1: None of them led Syracuse to a national championship. Carmelo
Speaker 1: Anthony did as a freshman back in two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: He was average. He averaged twenty two and ten that year.
Speaker 1: She was thirty four percent for the field that year.
Speaker 1: Brother was all world.
Speaker 3: Anyway. As for Kayan, he's six feet five.
Speaker 1: He's a six y five shooting guard out of Long
Speaker 1: Island Lutheran who's considered one of the best pure scorers
Speaker 1: in the country. Here's a clip of Kanya making the
Speaker 1: announcement on his father's podcast, seven PM in Brooklyn, presented
Speaker 1: by Wave Sports and Entertainment.
Speaker 3: Take a listen between USC and Syracuse.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to think both of them for coming to
Speaker 2: all my practases, coming to all my games and yeah,
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, you know only
Speaker 2: one can stay. And with divin say, I'll be coming
Speaker 2: in Syracuse University.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, first of all major major props. Rather the
Speaker 1: Kayenne the brother can play. I have not seen him,
Speaker 1: in full disclosure. I've heard scouts talking about him. I've
Speaker 1: had people talking to me about him, and obviously, considering
Speaker 1: that he's the son of Carmelo Anthony, you're gonna ask
Speaker 1: the obvious questions, how's his game and how does that
Speaker 1: game compare to the likes of Brownie James and other
Speaker 1: and you know stuff like that. Forget all of that
Speaker 1: for a second. Let me first say congratulations to this kid.
Speaker 1: The kid averaged nineteen point six points on a Nike
Speaker 1: eybl circuit in the spring, scoring twenty five or more
Speaker 1: points in four of the fifteen games he played. He
Speaker 1: was even more prolific at the Nike Beach Jam over
Speaker 1: the summer, average in twenty one point eight points and
Speaker 1: thirty seven point three percent shooting from three point range
Speaker 1: in eight games, including a forty pointer of forty point
Speaker 1: out in against the mac Irvin Fire when he shot
Speaker 1: fifteen of nineteen from the field and five to six
Speaker 1: from three point range.
Speaker 3: Just to give him a.
Speaker 1: Little bit more props, let me tell you what the
Speaker 1: scouting report is on him. Out of two forty seven sports,
Speaker 1: it says he's skilled, smooth scorer, high volume shot taker
Speaker 1: and maker, plays with an aggressive scorer mentality, and is
Speaker 1: constantly hunting buckets. He's had the ultimate green light, particularly
Speaker 1: in the eybl, so he has a tendency to set
Speaker 1: up for tough shots at times. But there are a
Speaker 1: few players in high school basketball bettery equipped to make
Speaker 1: shots with such high degrees of difficulties. He's got pull up,
Speaker 1: step backs, float as deep threes, all with with a
Speaker 1: natural soft touch and instinctive feel for putting the ball
Speaker 1: in the basket. His footwork and jab series are as
Speaker 1: advanced as you'd expect, and he's also become very adept
Speaker 1: at coming off of ball screens, ranking in the ninety
Speaker 1: percent tile in those situations. During the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: eybl percentergy that sounds like Carmelo Anthony jab step pull up.
Speaker 1: Who this is?
Speaker 3: Melow were talking about.
Speaker 1: Scorer of twenty eight thousand career points, who was named
Speaker 1: to the NBA's seventy fifth Anniversary Team in twenty and
Speaker 1: twenty one. During his one season at Syracuse, he led
Speaker 1: them to the national Championship.
Speaker 3: He was an All American, he was an.
Speaker 1: NCAA final Foremost Outstanding Player honoree.
Speaker 3: He's also a three time Olympic gold medalist. That's who
Speaker 3: we're talking about with Carmelo Anthony. Why do I bring
Speaker 3: that up? Why do I bring that up? Because it
Speaker 3: needs to be said.
Speaker 1: Melo is Mello class personified, always a beautiful brother, always
Speaker 1: even killed. All of these months we've been hearing Bronnie James,
Speaker 1: Bronnie James Bronnie James. When have you heard about Kya
Speaker 1: particularly out of the mouth of Carmelo Anthony. A matter
Speaker 1: of fact, when you heard Carmelo Anthony, you know what
Speaker 1: you heard from Carmelo Anthony when people were asking him
Speaker 1: whether someone was going to go pro or not a
Speaker 1: few months ago, he said, I want to hear that shit.
Speaker 1: He said that brother got a get on this game,
Speaker 1: be on his grind and figure out what college he's
Speaker 1: going to go to. That's what he said.
Speaker 3: And see, that's where the subject has to be broached.
Speaker 1: Now, when we look at Carmelo Anthony, his career is
Speaker 1: not comparable to that of Lebron James. Because Lebron James
Speaker 1: is a four time champion and he's played ten times
Speaker 1: in the NBA finals. Carmelo Anthony never got there once.
Speaker 1: That is a huge blemish from the career of Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 1: It is the only blemish on the career of Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medalist, all World scorer, perennial All Star, face
Speaker 1: of a franchise in Denver and then ultimately New York.
Speaker 1: When I think about Carmelo Anthony, I think about a dude.
Speaker 1: I believe that Joe Dumars would probably still be an
Speaker 1: executive in the NBA. I'm not talking about the NBA
Speaker 1: League office, but I'm talking about for the NBA team
Speaker 1: when he had Tayshawn Prince, and he had Ben Wallace,
Speaker 1: and he had Rashid Wallace, and he had Rip Hamilton.
Speaker 1: Then he had Chauncey Billips Off like that, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna draft Darko Milerchick. I understand that with the person
Speaker 1: that should have been drafted number two overall behind Lebron
Speaker 1: James in two thousand and three.
Speaker 3: Should have been Carmelo Anthony.
Speaker 1: Why because I think about what Bobby Knight once said
Speaker 1: about Michael Jordan. Draft Michael Jordan number one. They said,
Speaker 1: what if you need a center? He said, draft Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan and play them at center, because that's how great
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan was. And I think with Carmelo Anthony, considering
Speaker 1: the discrepancy that existed between a Darko and a Carmelo,
Speaker 1: you don't worry about the fact that you got tay
Speaker 1: Shawn Princes your three. You grab Carmelo Anthony and you
Speaker 1: think about the future.
Speaker 3: Of the franchise. That's just me.
Speaker 1: Joe Dumars guided them to like six conference consecutive conference
Speaker 1: finals in an NBA and back to back NBA Finals appearances,
Speaker 1: and won a championship with Larry Brown as his coach.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to impugn the greatness and the reputation
Speaker 1: of Joe Dumars. I'm just saying that's the one blemish
Speaker 1: because Carmelo Anthony was that special and even though he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a championship on his resume in the NBA,
Speaker 1: you would be hard pressed to find too many people
Speaker 1: that are more respected and loved as Carmelo Anthony, and
Speaker 1: you're looking at somebody that's got a whole lot of
Speaker 1: love for Carmelo Anthony. I bring that up because it's very,
Speaker 1: very important to understand and appreciate how he.
Speaker 3: And Kayne's mother, La La, the wonderful.
Speaker 1: La La Anthony have handled the son. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about the son's doing anything wrong. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: Brownie doing anything wrong. I'm not talking about Kayan doing
Speaker 1: anything wrong. I'm talking about how Carmelo Anthony handled it.
Speaker 1: So coming onto the college scene, they no questions about Kyne.
Speaker 3: We want to see what he's gonna do and whether
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 1: He's gonna emulate his daddy, who, by the way, has
Speaker 1: the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center, the arena named after him,
Speaker 1: named after him. He's going to the university. He's going
Speaker 1: to the university where.
Speaker 5: His father has a basketball.
Speaker 1: Center named after him, where his father is the only
Speaker 1: person in the history of the school to deliver a
Speaker 1: national championship. Do you have any idea how much pressure
Speaker 1: comes with that? Not only does he not care I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Kyenne. Not only does he not care, Not
Speaker 1: only is he not looking forward to the is he
Speaker 1: looking forward to the challenge. There's no one out there
Speaker 1: who expects him to fail because his gain is not
Speaker 1: a question mark. See the difference.
Speaker 3: See where I'm going.
Speaker 1: Bronnie James, I'm rooting for him. Wonderful family, great kid.
Speaker 1: He has done nothing wrong. Lebron James one of the
Speaker 1: top two players in the history of basketball. He's on
Speaker 1: the Mount Rushmore. He did nothing intentionally wrong, but he
Speaker 1: publicly stated he wanted to play with his son in
Speaker 1: the NBA and then publicly made it happen. And so
Speaker 1: as a result, the criticism that has come Bronnie's way
Speaker 1: has been excessive, and it has been unfair and it
Speaker 1: has been cruel. But who instigated it. It was Lebron.
Speaker 1: Lebron guess what, ladies and gentlemen absolutely pun intended. All
Speaker 1: he had to do was be Mello.
Speaker 3: It's the one time.
Speaker 1: In Lebron's basketball life he should have been Mellow.
Speaker 3: Pun intended.
Speaker 5: Don't say much, do all you can to help his
Speaker 5: game grow, and then step back and let his game
Speaker 5: speak for him.
Speaker 3: So when he's elevated, no one has anything to say.
Speaker 3: But damn, that's his son.
Speaker 1: This brother Kyenne hasn't played a college game yet. He's
Speaker 1: going to Syracuse and all of us are sitting there
Speaker 1: looking at him. With the value cuation process that has
Speaker 1: taken place, with what scouts have seen, with the way
Speaker 1: his game has been dissected, we're expecting him to be
Speaker 1: an extension of his daddy, a six ' five scoring
Speaker 1: machine with a jabs that would a pull up with
Speaker 1: a setup with a j with a three who smoothed.
Speaker 3: Listen to the things that they say. It sounds just
Speaker 3: like Mellow.
Speaker 1: And they're the one saying this, not Mello. They're the
Speaker 1: ones doing the talking, not Mellow. Mello went out of
Speaker 1: his way, didn't even want to be a part of
Speaker 1: the whole recruiting process, praying that he would go to Syracuse,
Speaker 1: but didn't want to play a role in influence in
Speaker 1: the sun, so he said, Yo, go ahead, you go
Speaker 1: to USC and talk to Auburn and whomever.
Speaker 3: But I gotta stay out of it.
Speaker 1: And his son ended up going.
Speaker 3: To the school his father starred.
Speaker 1: That determined to make his own name. And he's saying, Yo,
Speaker 1: look at all my father has done, but I'm coming.
Speaker 1: He has single handedly turned Syracuse basketball into a box
Speaker 1: office commodity and he hasn't even started there yet. Because
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him now, because I want
Speaker 1: to see when.
Speaker 4: He goes to practice at the carmelok Anthony Basketball Center
Speaker 4: and he's playing at the Dome in front of forty
Speaker 4: thousand people or something.
Speaker 3: Is he gonna be that dude? They're saying, he got
Speaker 3: a chance.
Speaker 1: They're saying, Na, Carmelo, he's just a proud papa. He
Speaker 1: didn't influence anything. He just got his son ready and
Speaker 1: made it happen. Why am I telling y'all this Because
Speaker 1: I'm in the media and I know what's coming, and
Speaker 1: eventually the opposite is going to be coming in Bronni's
Speaker 1: direction because of the process that unfolded, and it's all
Speaker 1: going to fall at the doorsteps of Lebron James because
Speaker 1: he dictated the process instead of letting.
Speaker 3: The play itself out.
Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all what I know, not trying to be negative,
Speaker 1: not trying to Lebron did nothing intentional to hurt his son,
Speaker 1: but it hurt nevertheless because of how he handled it.
Speaker 1: He should have been mellow. He should have been mellow.