Kiyan Anthony on his role, how long he envisions being at Syracuse and the inevitable pressure: ‘I can’t run from it’

Syracuse, N.Y. — There was no way to avoid the pressure.

Not if he played in Syracuse. Not if he played in Nome, Alaska.

Kiyan Anthony, the son of Basketball Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony, believes that the potential downsides of being a legacy college basketball player were unavoidable. His last name guaranteed it.

So, he reasoned, he might as well confront them at Syracuse University.

It’s a place, he said, that feels like home. It’s a place, he said, that he’s surrounded by people he trusts.

It’s a place, he said, where the downsides are offset by upsides that include building on a family legacy and helping pull a program that means so much to his father out from a four-year rut of missed NCAA tournaments.

“I knew anywhere I went it would be a lot of pressure,” Anthony said. “If I