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In the end, Knicks’ Melo runs out of gas

Carmelo Anthony had one message for everybody on his side during the Knicks last timeout in regulation last night. Don’t even think of looking anywhere else.

Anthony was having a monster game. The Knicks’ first game against the Brooklyn Nets was tied. The Barclays Center clock showed 22.3 seconds remaining during the timeout. Anthony knew there was only one option, Anthony wanted only one option. And that would be Anthony.

“I wanted it,” Anthony said of his failed 16-foot left wing jumper defended by Gerald Wallace. “I told them we weren’t going anywhere else but to me at that last shot. I got the look I wanted and I missed it. I take those shots every day. Work on those shots every day and work on them every chance I get.”

“That’s the look I wanted. I’ll take that shot all day. Perfect look at it. I missed it. But that’s the look I wanted.”

And it was the look the Knicks would have wanted for him. But maybe Anthony was gassed although he would have held his head underwater for a day and a half before admitting it. All around, people spoke of fatigue for both sides. Anthony, who played a game-high 50 minutes, said he never felt it until afterwards, after his shot had missed with :04.9 left, after both his shots failed in the overtime and after the Nets walked away with an exciting 96-89 victory.

“I feel it now though,” Anthony said of the fatigue issue. “When you’re in a game, you’re playing off adrenaline. I didn’t realize I played 50 minutes until I came into the locker room.”

Anthony’s numbers truly were worthy of the type of player who hears “MVP” chants even in an opponent’s building — which he did. He finished with 35 points and 13 rebounds but when production mattered most, Anthony and the Knicks could not match the Nets down the stretch.

“They controlled the tempo in overtime, they made shots … Overtime, we kind of ran out of gas. Kind of got fatigued a little bit,” Anthony said, offering the chant that pleased him most were the “Brook-lyn” calls from the crowd.

“It felt good. As a Brooklyn guy, it felt good to hear that,” Anthony said.

Anthony managed just one point in the overtime, missing his final five attempts after a 3-pointer at 3:37 of regulation had gotten the Knicks within 81-79. He started slow — the Nets double and triple teamed him early — but he scored 11 points in each of the middle quarters. And then he was going on fumes, like the rest of the Knicks starters.

“Fatigue set in,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said of his gang that went without Jason Kidd (back) and then lost Ronnie Brewer (finger) late in the fourth quarter. “But we had a shot to win. Melo got a good look at it and we came up empty.”

fred.kerber@nypost.com