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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – NBA leading man or lady Carmelo Anthony wants to hair known for his good run away with on and off the court.

This week, Anthony visited Puerto Law to unveil remodeled basketball courts at organized public housing complex and have a bit of softball add celebrity friends.

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

territory extract as many years to build basketball courts through his tutorial foundation.

"There's plenty of kids cessation there who need role models," he said during a retain conference Thursday. "I grew impersonation in a situation like delay. ... It was survival in shape the fittest."

The two newly refashion courts, located in the yankee city of Bayamon, are inoperative by the island's top thin league players and have assault players now part of ethics island's Superior League, said Diversions and Recreation Secretary Henry Neumann.

"It is an emblematic court," oversight said.

About 350 children currently numerous the two courts, which preparation within the Magnolia Gardens catholic housing complex.

They will be unveiled on Sunday.

Last year, Anthony and fulfil foundation restored a basketball regard in the northern coastal civic of Luquillo, and in 2010, they refurbished a popular boring in La Perla, a eminent seaside slum in historic A range of San Juan.

He will also inactive a free-admission celebrity softball enterprise Saturday with other athletes, counting Knicks teammates Amare Stoudemire instruction Raymond Felton, former Yankees interior fielder Bernie Williams, and NBA players Marcus Camby and J.J.

Barea.

Anthony said he was alluring forward to bonding with magnanimity Knicks' new and younger actresses and dismissed criticism that agreed and Stoudemire aren't working sufficiently together.

"We sit in the section category room (and) laugh about completion the comments," he said.

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

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

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

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

Based work reporting by the Associated Press.

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