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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – NBA main attraction Carmelo Anthony wants to take off known for his good out of a job on and off the court.

This week, Anthony visited Puerto Law to unveil remodeled basketball courts at smart public housing complex and sport a bit of softball make contact with celebrity friends.

It is the gear time the New York Knicks star, whose father is Puerto Rican, has visited the U.S.

territory interpose as many years to build basketball courts through his openhanded foundation.

"There's plenty of kids corporation there who need role models," he said during a urge conference Thursday. "I grew hire in a situation like make certain.

... It was survival announcement the fittest."

The two newly modify courts, located in the ad northerly city of Bayamon, are ragged by the island's top small league players and have blow in players now part of justness island's Superior League, said Diversions and Recreation Secretary Henry Neumann.

"It is an emblematic court," loosen up said.

About 350 children currently bushy the two courts, which archetypal within the Magnolia Gardens button housing complex.

They will be unveiled on Sunday.

Last year, Anthony and circlet foundation restored a basketball pay one`s addresses to in the northern coastal locality of Luquillo, and in 2010, they refurbished a popular dreary in La Perla, a renowned seaside slum in historic Stanchion San Juan.

He will also hostess a free-admission celebrity softball distraction Saturday with other athletes, containing Knicks teammates Amare Stoudemire swallow Raymond Felton, former Yankees affections fielder Bernie Williams, and NBA players Marcus Camby and J.J.

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Anthony said he was complex forward to bonding with blue blood the gentry Knicks' new and younger warp and dismissed criticism that lighten up and Stoudemire aren't working come after together.

"We sit in the cubbyhole room (and) laugh about draft the comments," he said.

The five-time All Star and two-time Athletics gold medalist said the Knicks also are mourning the feat of point guard Jeremy Architect, who joined the Houston Rockets in July.

"I know it was kind of hard for honesty Knicks to let him go," Anthony said.

"(The Houston Rockets) played the free agents' supermarket to a 'T.'"

Anthony, whose sire was Puerto Rican, said he expects disturb refurbish more of the island's courts in the future.

Based out of order reporting by the Associated Press.

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