NCAA Basketball Recruiting: Analyzing top 6 teams for 2025 4-star SG Kiyan Anthony

A lot of the attention in the basketball world over the past two months has been about Bronny James, a former USC Trojan who is the son of NBA superstar, LeBron James. Due to the status of being the son of an all-time great, the younger James received a lot of publicity, despite the production not matching it.

Another player with a similar situation is Kiyan Anthony, who is the son of Carmelo Anthony. He's another all-time great basketball player, known for being on the best pure individual scorers in the modern era. He was in the same 2003 NBA Draft class as LeBron James and has long been connected over the years and ultimately had a Hall of Fame career at mostly the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks.

Carmelo's son is starting to develop the same kind of reputation as an elite scorer. In the past month, Kiyan has produced several 30-40 point games on the AAU circuit, becoming a standout class of 2025 prospect. The younger Anthony has been a consensus four-star prospect throughout his recruitment but has risen into a top-40 overall prospect.

The latest development into Anthony's recruitment has an official list of teams in the mix to land him. One includes the Syracuse Orange, which is his father's alma mater. But things have changed with both them and other teams involved so it could be a wide-open race for his services.

Here's a closer look at how Anthony fits with each of the contenders.