Who is carmelo anthony father

I'm around a lot of those same people. We talk all the time. Some of my friends are still there, so it was free-flowing as I get to talking about those things. It was just more conversation like that I was having kind of with myself, but also keeping everybody in my mind as I'm telling these stories.

OK, he said this happened. OK, I was right on point about that. Over here, it might not happen on the left side, it happened on the right side, but the story is there. It was healing. But it was also like a bit of nervousness as I was writing, because I'm writing it for everybody now as opposed to just sitting here and telling the story around my friends and family.

ESQ: In the rare times I've had to write about myself , the pressure of people eventually reading it is terrifying, but it does bring something else—something extra—out of you that I'm not sure would come if you were writing in a diary.

CA: Oh yeah, for sure. It definitely wasn't there. Because I tried it. I tried to write journals and they won't work for me. ESQ: To go back about your dad, we learn so much about the people who end up being figures in your life who give or gave fatherly advice. Even your mother and your sister.

Outside the book, how have you compressed all of that knowledge into yourself as a father now? What would I want to see? How would I want to feel or what I want from him? So I'm able to give that to him as a parent now.

I'm able to give that to him. Writing this book is really my Bible to him. It's my blueprint to him. Here's what I had to go through. And you take this and you apply it to your life how you think you want to apply it. ESQ: I was going to ask you a version of that, because you do describe your childhood beat for beat—and you faced so much violence, racism, and cruelty between Red Hook and Baltimore.

What do you hope young kids will learn from the book, reading what you lived through? CA: Well, for me, I just want people to understand: You don't have to be from Baltimore or be from New York to go through these things. I like to say it's the universal truth, right? It's the greater truth. It has universal appeal so it appeals to everybody and that title, Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised— that goes across the board to any and everybody.

You don't have to be from where I'm from to think that tomorrows aren't promised. You could be in the suburbs, you can be here, you can be there, you can be in another country.

It's still the same context when you say tomorrows aren't promised. ESQ: I found your experience with the educational system in this country so interesting over the course of the book—because you start as this extremely curious, intelligent young man entering school.

And you show how teachers, and the vice principal especially, take that love of learning away from you. CA: You know, I wanted to give them a vivid view on: I wasn't a bad student. My grades was good. I went to class. It was just certain things that I've learned along the way, or my upbringing, had got me to question.

It was like that was like my downfall a lot of times, because I was questioning the norm. I wasn't doing it purposely. I was searching for answers at that point in time. And I want people to understand that. That's why I contextualized it like that, because I want you to know: I had good intentions when I went into high school to get to school, learn, play ball, have fun, and enjoy.

I was just happy go lucky. And then these things start to happen along the way, which almost steals the joy away from me. ESQ: It did seem like you had fun at Syracuse. We relive the championship, but also, there's all the parties you went to. Can you remember your favorite night out when you were celebrating the national title?

CA: I'll tell you, I just remember I started going to frat parties. I just ended up at frat parties. I'm like, Oh no. How I end up a frat party? But as that year went on, the men's lacrosse team was really good. So I think we won together, like the same year.

So it was one big celebration on the campus with the lacrosse team. And they had all the frat houses. So they would invite us to the frat houses. I don't remember exactly the names of it, but in Syracuse, we have bars on Marshall Street and you just go to hit a couple bars. Certain bars we couldn't go to because of [our being underage]. We just stayed on Marshall Street. We hung out there. We went to eat over there. That's what we did. It was fun. I mean, I had so much fun that I didn't want to leave Syracuse.

ESQ: That's something that comes up in a few one-liners throughout the book, that you genuinely never needed or wanted to be in the NBA. The NBA was just so far-fetched from where I was at. As you get older, you start hearing the statistics of oh, only one-in-X would make it.

And we were like, there's no way we're going to be one of the X that make it in. And I was just looking for, like, that big brother. And you have your cousin Luck with you; you guys would play together, and it seems as though that competition made you want to get better. When you were younger, was that really it—not thinking about the N. What was the motivation? Well, the motivation was to get out of my circumstance.

I had a lot of sleepless nights thinking about that. Not thinking about basketball, or sports—in those environments, people would constantly harp on the fact that you will be one out of whatever number it is that make it.

Your chances are rare. Find something else. I never looked at the N. Get a scholarship to college, make it to the N. Or is it just whatever it is you can do? That was my mind-set.

So making it, to me, was getting a scholarship to go to college. That was it. On the one hand, you love the place, right? Same thing in Baltimore—how much you love the people around Murphy Homes. You knew them, and they took care of you. But, at the same time, you knew that it was dangerous, and you had to make it out. I feel very good on my block and in my neighborhood. I relied on my neighborhood.

I relied on my community. In New York, I relied on people in my projects. And that made me happy. I knew if I was going to school, after class, I was going back to, truly, my happy place.

One part of the book that really struck me was when you did not at all want to go to Oak Hill Academy, in Virginia. You basically had to be tricked into going there.

Basketball fans hear about Oak Hill because you, Kevin Durant , Rajon Rondo , and all these other players went there for a time. What was that environment like? Did you know its reputation back then? I knew the reputation of it from a basketball standpoint—I mean, you hear about it. Having an opportunity to go there was special in that sense. Also, I was just becoming, like, the No. I want to ride this wave with my people here. The basketball part was fun, but you would see parents pull up to the campus and open the door and drop their kids off and just pull off.

It was one of those types of environments. It seems like you learned some different lessons at Towson Catholic, the place you left to go to Oak Hill. You write about a vice-principal who was on you from the beginning. I wonder whether being misperceived by people who are supposed to be in a position of authority is a lesson that you also took forward into your career in the N.

Without even knowing, it was testing me and preparing me for something. Getting up at six-thirty in the morning, I gotta catch the light rails, the two buses—every day, hour and a half to school, an hour and a half back.

That right there made me tougher. I got to school any way I could, whether it was a three-dollar cab or whether it was the light rail, the buses, whatever it was. I went there because of the basketball program and because of how good it was and has been, so they had guys before me in a similar situation.

I think it was just that I was coming in there a product of my environment. The Beef and Brocs come into it. I really wanted to wear Beef and Brocs anyway. You understand? So any little thing on top of that, with that premeditated notion, it was just piling up. I felt it. They wanted you to be a certain way.

You write about having to take out your cornrows. Darnell Hopkins. At the time, other people were trying to draw a contrast between you and him. The media was trying to make him the good guy and them the bad guys. People tried to make you—. By default. I think with my upbringing and my past and growing up where I grew up and people really knowing that story, that stuck with me.

It was, like, the gift and the curse, because coming from that environment, and really, truly being from the essence of that, I got that street love, the hood love. I had that and I still do have that to this day. I will always have that. But not everybody understood that, and not everybody wanted to see that. The N. The look and the feel of the N. He did it his way. Just my opinion. They had to figure out a way to make the story work. So I instantly became the villain.

I embraced it. I always wondered, if, when A. I see myself in him. But I think A. We had mutual friends in Baltimore, in Virginia, in D. We always had similar circles.

And he was schooling me, too. He was teaching me and I was learning at the same time. I can respect you. I was at Barclays for your game against the Nets that year, and I watched you score twenty-eight points and then, like, a little over a week later, they dropped you. Dude, I just saw Melo lead his team in scoring like a week ago!

Was there a moment of not caring and then a moment of trying to prove everybody wrong? I always felt I had to prove myself over and over and over again, no matter what. If you saw me play ten times, I always felt like that eleventh time I still had to prove myself to you. It was always doubt or skepticism or something to say when it came to me.

I can do the same thing somebody else did; the narrative with me would be so much crazier than it is about the next person. When I first got to the N. Why me? I care about a lot of people. In , the U. Olympic team would win a gold medal at the Beijing games redeeming themselves from the previous Olympics. When it came to playing in the U. After eight years with the Nuggets, Anthony was traded for the Knicks. In , the couple welcomed their only child, son Kiyan and by the couple had married shortly before the trade announcement.

In , the Knicks made it to the playoffs and Anthony tied his postseason personal high of 42 points. Now, Anthony is playing for the team that he grew up watching during his childhood.

This game was in and he managed to get a whopping 62 points! His dad also sadly passed away when Melo was only 2 years old, and the passing was due to cancer. LT Staff August 14,