NBA star Carmelo Anthony will be releasing his memoir on Sept. 14 titled Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope. The book will trace Anthony’s rise from the housing projects in New York City and Baltimore to becoming an Olympic gold medalist and one of professional basketball’s top scorers. The 10-time NBA All-Star wrote the book with New York Times best-selling author and the University of Baltimore professor D. Watkins.
“I’m a Black kid from the bottom,” the 37-year-old Anthony writes in an excerpt from the book shared by publisher Gallery Books. “I had to fight through some of the roughest housing projects in America. How did I, a kid who’d had so many hopes, dreams and expectations beat out of him, make it here at all?”
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