LAS VEGAS — Carmelo Anthony was asked more questions Monday about the racial tensions going on in the country than the fortunes of the Knicks and the Olympic team.

Anthony received a mound of attention for his impassioned Instagram message that came out after a gunman killed five Dallas police officers this month.

Anthony said with the upcoming Olympics, “the timing couldn’t be better’’ for athletes to send out messages designed to heal tensions. And he plans to back up his words with actions.

The Olympic team, after it breaks camp here, will head to Los Angeles next week and events are being planned there, Anthony said.

“We’re going to try to host a town hall in L.A. to get some people out there,’’ he said. “What I put out on Instagram sparked something, so now we have to follow through with it.”

After his explosive Instagram post, Anthony wrote an essay for a British newspaper and then joined with LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade on stage at the ESPYs last week to send a similar message that everyone must get along.

Anthony said he hadn’t intended to go to the ESPYs until James and the others convinced him to join them in making a statement concerning the nation’s racial divide.

“It was because of what I posted,’’ Anthony said. “Those guys were going to the ESPYs. I wasn’t going to the ESPYs. Then they called, got on a group text. We should use this platform as an opportunity to speak. It was because of what I posted. I’m glad the guys I’m close with stepped up — they have a big voice in their own way.’’

Anthony won’t back down, even though things keep getting worse. Three Baton Rouge, La., police officers were assassinated Sunday. Also, a judge acquitted Baltimore police lieutenant Brian Rice on Monday for his role in the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who was critically injured in a police transport van. Gray suffered severe spinal cord injuries and died a week after his arrest last April.

That incident sparked riots in Baltimore and prompted Anthony to participate in a march in his adopted hometown. Anthony said Monday he didn’t have the facts to comment yet on the judge’s decision.

“At the end of the day, the tragedies that have happened, it affects people,” Anthony said. “We’re athletes, but we’re human beings at the end of the day. We’re affected by all of that. We have family in some of those cities. … We’re affected. Just because we’re out here playing basketball as athletes doesn’t mean we’re not affected.

Regarding Sunday’s cop-killing in Baton Rouge, Anthony said: “It’s unfortunate, sad. Can’t put it into words. Not just what’s going on there but throughout the whole country and world. Everything is happening at once. For us as a country we have to stand united and come together. It shouldn’t be us against them. It should be about all of us.’’