Stevie Wonder Told NBA Star Carmelo Anthony He Loved ‘Watching’ Him Play

Stevie Wonder, Carmelo Anthony.

NBA legend Carmelo Anthony hilariously recalled an interaction he had with Stevie Wonder, much to the shock and chagrin of his podcast cohosts. 

On a recent episode of his “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast, Anthony 40, told a story about meeting Wonder, 74, at 2011’s NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles. 

“He said, ‘I love watching you play,’” Anthony said of Wonder, who is blind. 

Anthony’s cohosts — former NBA star Rudy Gay, The Kid Mero and Kazeem Famuyide — could not contain themselves, with Gay, 38, playfully getting up to leave the recording studio. 

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“I’m out,” Gay said. 

Anthony insisted the story was true, and said LeBron James was also present for the interaction with the legendary singer. 

“There’s a lot of people that can vouch for this,” Anthony said. “There’s a lot of people that was around that can vouch for this.”

After having the conversation with Wonder, Anthony said he was “crying before the game.”

“It f—ed me up,” Anthony added. ‘I love watching you play.’ It f—ed me up.”

With his cohosts in disbelief, Anthony was determined to prove he was telling the truth. 

“You really think that I’m going to make some s— up like that?” he asked. “I don’t play around with that type s—.”

In the midst of all the laughter, Famuyide, 37, joked that Wonder might have inadvertently let it slip to Anthony that his eyesight isn’t totally gone. 

“He knows more than he lets on, man,” Famuyide said. 

The podcast’s comment section was littered with similar conspiracy theories about Wonder. “One day y’all gon realize that Stevie can see,” one person wrote via X. 

Another commented, “I’m glad the truth is truly starting to reveal itself — that man ain’t blind.”

Elsewhere, it’s been a big week for the Anthony family. On Friday, November 15, Anthony’s son, Kiyan Anthony, announced he would be enrolling and playing basketball at Syracuse University in the fall. 

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Anthony, a former basketball star at Syracuse, shares Kiyan, 17, with his ex-wife La La Anthony. 

“Ultimately, it came down to my relationship with the staff,” Kiyan told ESPN. “From day one, when they started recruiting me, they made me feel like it was family. My dad’s name on the facility is special, but I want to go in there and create my own name, and I’ve already done that through my dedication in the offseason, with early-morning practices, playing at camps, playing on the circuit.”

Kiyan added, “I’m going to do everything Coach [Adrian] Autry needs me to do. We talk a lot, especially late at night, about how we can make Syracuse basketball great. Off the court, Coach is super cool. You could go out with him on a Friday night. He’s still young and connects with all his players. He is very relatable.”