NBA

Knicks’ Anthony in fine form at all-star shindig

BALTIMORE — After seeing his first game action of the summer, Carmelo Anthony declared himself 100 percent healthy.

“I’m back like I never missed a game,” the Knicks star said last night.

Anthony was plagued by chronic bursitis in his right elbow throughout last season, which kept him from playing in a game all summer, outside of some workouts in Los Angeles and New York. But the forward looked to be in midseason form last night, scoring 36 points and, with some help from Chris Paul and LeBron James, leading his Baltimore-based Melo League to a 149-141 win over Washington D.C.’s Goodwin League at Morgan State University.

“This is my first time coming out and actually playing [this summer],” Anthony said. “I wanted to bring LeBron out here to actually enjoy the atmosphere . . . there’s nothing like it.”

Despite the NBA lockout, Anthony said it was important to him to get his teammates together sometime before the season is scheduled to begin.

“Probably by early October, we’ll start getting guys together,” Anthony said. “I’ll make it my duty to get guys together, whether it’s in New York or L.A. . . . me, coming in at a half a season, or toward the end of the season, I think it’s for me to [make that happen].

The Knicks’ other superstar, Amar’e Stoudemire, also has been planning on getting his teammates together for a workout at some point in the next few weeks, but Anthony admitted the two haven’t seen each other lately.

“I’m trying to find Amar’e, man,” Anthony said, laughing. “If anybody’s seen Amar’e, just tell him. I don’t know where he’s at . . . I heard he’s in China, I heard he’s back. Maybe I’ll see him in New York next week for Fashion Week.”

Anthony, who said there have been talks to get a Baltimore-D.C. game together for years, said it didn’t take much for him to convince James and Paul to come to play in last night’s game.

“I use my favors when I can,” he said. “I don’t like to call them and say, ‘I need this, I need that.’ There’s no money involved, we don’t take any money. . . . We’re just good friends, and I told him, I said, ‘Look, man, you’ve got to come through.’ ”

Said Paul: “[Anthony] told us about the game, asked us if we wanted to play. Everybody has a busy schedule, but it was a great opportunity to come out here and play with some great players.”

While Anthony, James, who finished with 38 points, and Paul, who finished with 18, eventually came away with the win, the star of the show was another local product, Kevin Durant. The Oklahoma City Thunder star finished the game with 59 points, nearly equaling his 66 points earlier this summer at New York’s Rucker Park.

A lot of those points came against James, with the two players repeatedly going back and forth and scoring two and three baskets in a row against one another.

“I have so much respect for LeBron,” Durant said. “He’s one of the greatest players in this league . . . so to have that type of opportunity to play against him, and just work on what I’ve been working on all summer, it was fun.”

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In advance of today’s labor negotiations in New York, several stars who participated in last night’s exhibition game met with union chief Billy Hunter.

No star players are expected to participate in today’s meeting, which is only the second session between the owners and players since the lockout began on July 1.

If no significant progress is made today, the scheduled start of training camps in October would be in serious jeopardy.

tbontemps@nypost.com