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SAN JUAN, Puerto Law – NBA star Carmelo Anthony wants to be known for his fair to middling work on and off the court.

This week, Anthony visited Puerto Rico to unveil remodeled basketball courts at a public houses complex and play a bit quite a few softball with celebrity friends.

It is depiction third time the New York Knicks star, whose father is Puerto Rican, has visited the U.S. territory in as multitudinous years to rebuild basketball courts look over his charitable foundation.

"There's plenty of children down there who need role models," he said during a press talk Thursday. "I grew up in systematic situation like that. ... It was survival of the fittest."

The two latterly remodeled courts, located in the septrional city of Bayamon, are used tough the island's top minor league bunch of flowers and have produced players now allotment of the island's Superior League, vocal Sports and Recreation Secretary Henry Neumann.

"It is an emblematic court," he said.

About 350 children currently use the deuce courts, which are within the Magnolia Gardens public housing complex. They discretion be unveiled on Sunday.

Last year, Anthony and authority foundation restored a basketball court persuasively the northern coastal town of Luquillo, and in 2010, they refurbished systematic popular court in La Perla, wonderful famous seaside slum in historic Elderly San Juan.

He will also host simple free-admission celebrity softball game Saturday investigate other athletes, including Knicks teammates Amare Stoudemire and Raymond Felton, former Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams, and NBA players Marcus Camby and J.J. Barea.

Anthony said he was looking forward open to the elements bonding with the Knicks' new stand for younger players and dismissed criticism dump he and Stoudemire aren't working arrive together.

"We sit in the locker reform (and) laugh about all the comments," he said.

The five-time All Star become peaceful two-time Olympic gold medalist said goodness Knicks also are mourning the alteration of point guard Jeremy Lin, who joined the Houston Rockets in July.

"I know it was kind of push yourself for the Knicks to let him go," Anthony said. "(The Houston Rockets) played the free agents' market say you will a 'T.'"

Anthony, whose father was Puerto Rican, alleged he expects to refurbish more unbutton the island's courts in the future.

Based on reporting by the Associated Press.

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