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RIO DE JANEIRO — Carmelo Anthony had seen what favelas looked like in the movies.
Or, to be more accurate, the movie.
“I watched ‘City of God’ almost 100 times, and it’s very, very accurate,” the New York Knicks star and Team USA basketball player told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday. “It was one of them.”
For a few hours on Monday, he was one of them too.
The Rio slums that were a character all their own in the celebrated 2002 film have been a topic of great discussion at these Olympics.