LaLa And Carmelo Anthony Draw Inspiration From Will and Jada Pinkett Smith

Carmelo Anthony and La La

Yesterday, Television host La La Anthony and her hubby Carmelo celebrated their one year anniversary as husband and wife. The couple sat down with the NY Times a few days prior, and discussed their relationship and business partnership as well as which couples they draw inspiration from, including Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. The comparisons are inevitable as Lala and Carmelo followed in the power couple’s footsteps and created a production company together in 2008, that has produced Lala’s Full Court Wedding, as well as the Mike Tyson Documentary ‘Tyson’ and an upcoming movie with Brett Ratner.

Lala on Will and Jada

I love Will Smith and Jada Pinkett! You see the love, and you can see the support, and they partner on things and produce together. But she has a life, and he has a life.

Will and Jada-Pinkett Smith

Carmelo on couples that inspire them

Will and Jada have a tremendous relationships, Jay-Z and Beyonce have a tremendous relationship, Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, they’re a couple we see that inspires us. But we want to be ourselves. We want people to say, ‘We want our relationship to be like Melo and LaLa.’

Jay-Z and Beyonce

 Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Lala On Wanting To Be More Than A ‘Basketball Wife’

A lot of times with basketball players, their wives, and I’m not criticizing, but their life is just about the man, what time is he getting home, why hasn’t he called me? But I’m so much more than” that. I’m a mom, I’m an actress, I’m a producer. Like, out of all that, I don’t want to just be called a basketball wife. What I see in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, is having your own, and I tell everyone that.”

Carmelo on creating a business partnership

I saw her wanting to go into movies and producing films and documentaries and reality shows, So I said instead of letting somebody else come on board and produce all this stuff, we have the capabilities and the relationships, we can create our own production company and bring everything through that.

Read the full interview over at The New York Times.