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Former Knicks star Carmelo Anthony still wants to play basketball 'two-thousand percent'

Carmelo Anthony waves to the crowd during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game between Syracuse and Virginia in Syracuse, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Credit: AP/Nick Lisi

Carmelo Anthony is 35, and a man without an NBA team, but he still wants to play basketball.

“Two thousand percent,” he said on Thursday night. “Make that the headline.”

Anthony was in Manhattan to be honored at the ALS Association Greater New York Chapter’s Lou Gehrig Sports Award Benefit and stopped very briefly to speak to reporters.

Regarding his free agent status, the 10-time All-Star and former Knick said, “I don’t really want to get into all that.