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Melo visits Rikers: 'There's a lot of potential behind those bars'

Carmelo Anthony is many things to many people in New York.

To some, he’s the face of their favorite basketball team. To others, he’s a player approaching the downward slope of his career who shoots too much.

But to a group of young inmates at Rikers Island, none of what Anthony does -- or doesn't do -- on the court mattered at all one afternoon in late September.

All that mattered was that Anthony wanted to listen to what they had to say.

“I just wanted to hear their stories,” Anthony says. “They’re still young, 18, 19, 20 years old.