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  Where Tomorrow’s Aren’t Promised.     A Memoir of Survival and Hope.     Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins.      The author of the book, Where Tomorrow’s aren’t Promised , happens to be a well-known basketball player.     He led his college team to a national championship as a freshman and played in the NBA for nearly two decades.    What many may not know, however, is the struggles Carmelo Anthony experienced during his youth growing up in inner city Brooklyn and Baltimore.     Anthony provides a detailed account of life endured in the streets of the Charm City. There tends to be a moment of skepticism or uncertainty as to the quality of the writing when an athlete publishes their memoirs.    In this case, the doubt was quickly removed in the early goings of the book.   Anthony starts the book the way he ends it---the day was selected in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft...