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Carmelo Anthony making voice heard in fight for social change

USA TODAY Sports

LAS VEGAS – The moment of inspiration hit Carmelo Anthony in the middle of the night. For a few days, he had contemplated the shooting deaths involving police in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and Dallas.

“Enough is enough,” Anthony thought to himself before posting a famous picture on Instagram of Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and a call to action.

"We need to steer our anger in the right direction,” Anthony wrote. "The system is Broken.