Carmelo Anthony Actor Basketball - Born May 29, 1984 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Birth Name Carmelo Kyan Anthony

Nicknames Melo, Melo Man

Height 6' 8" (2.03 m)

Mini Bio (1) Carmelo Anthony was born on May 29, 1984 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Carmelo Kyan Anthony. He is an actor and producer, known for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), Nurse Jackie (2009) and Tyson (2008). He has been married to La La Anthony since July 10, 2010. They have one child.

Spouse (1) La La Anthony (10 July 2010 - present) (separated) (1 child)

Named 2002 USA Today All-USA first team, Parade Magazine All-American first team and Basketball America All-American first team.

Member of the 2001 USA Basketball Youth Development Festival East Team that earned the silver medal with a 3-2 record.

He was 1st round, 3rd pick by Nuggets (2003 NBA Draft)

Member of the 2002 USA Basketball Junior World Championship Qualifying Team that finished with a 4-1 record and the bronze medal.

Mother is Black-American, father (deceased) is Puerto-Rican.

Named after his father, Carmelo Iriarte.

Son Kiyan, born March 7, 2007.

In 2006, he donated $4,282,000 to the CAF Youth Center in Baltimore, AAU Basketball, Syracuse University Recreational Center, and other charities.

NBA rookie playing for the Dever Nuggets [June 2004]

(December 25, 2004) Engaged to MTV veejay La La Anthony. It took nearly six years for them to tie the knot.

I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.

What I do will be straight up. Management knows that.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

I think everybody has their own unique style.

Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

Leadership is something I was born with.

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you.

I can't palm a basketball.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

I just want to get on the court.

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

Life is a risk.

The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Of course I want to take the last shot, let's be quite frank: I've been doing for nine years already, and I've made a ton of them.

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

I like having fun.

Who wouldn't want to go back home to play?

I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.

I'm really into fashion.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.