{"id":84374,"date":"2025-08-15T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84374\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:08:12","slug":"kiyan-anthony-gets-legacy-tattoo-in-honor-of-carmelo-winning-ncaa-title-at-syracuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/84374\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiyan Anthony Gets &#8216;Legacy&#8217; Tattoo In Honor of Carmelo Winning NCAA Title at Syracuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kiyan Anthony paid tribute to his father, Carmelo Anthony, with a tattoo showcasing a picture of him celebrating Syracuse&#8217;s 2003 men&#8217;s basketball NCAA Division I national championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Tattoo artist <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stevewiebe\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Steve Wiebe<\/a> did the work, and <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNQq51ftp3E\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@inkednba<\/a> shared it on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The original picture, snapped by Craig Jones of Getty Images, showcased Melo holding up the Syracuse Post-Standard after he just led the team to an 81-78 win over Kansas in the title game. Anthony dropped 20 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists in the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Now Kiyan Anthony is heading to Syracuse and hoping to write his own legacy in town. His tattoo also has a twist, with the headline LEGACY instead of CHAMPIONSHIP on the paper. In addition, the younger Anthony replaces the older Anthony on the front cover of the Post-Standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Anthony is a 4-star recruit ranked 34th nationally in the class of 2025, per the latest <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/kiyan-anthony-46135372\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">247Sports composite list<\/a>. The 6&#8217;5&#8243;, 185-pound shooting guard played high school ball at Long Island Lutheran.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiyan Anthony paid tribute to his father, Carmelo Anthony, with a tattoo showcasing a picture of him celebrating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-84374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}