Carmelo Anthony Tyson Chandler

Carmelo Anthony Tyson Chandler, Tyson Chandler can’t stop Roy Hibbert from scoring or pulling down offensive rebounds in this playoff series and now the big Knick center has started in with Carmelo Anthony about being too selfish.
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Chandler might have come in from Dallas wearing a championship ring and bringing instant credibility to a franchise that has done nothing of consequence since way back in 2000. But he hasn’t exactly built up any equity with his disappointing playoff efforts, both last spring and in the first nine postseason games of this run, to now start up with the team’s ranking star. All told, he’s given Mike Woodson exactly one big impact game out of 14, when the Knicks eliminated the Celtics in Game 6 in Boston.

Chandler didn’t name names, but everyone knows his complaints about how the Knicks had gotten away from team basketball in their abysmal Game 3 loss on Saturday night were targeted at a player that Chandler probably does not want to mess with.

In case he has forgotten, the last two members of the Knicks who crossed Anthony are now working for different teams. Mike D’Antoni is coaching the Lakers. Jeremy Lin is playing for the Rockets.

If the Knicks don’t recover in this series and move on to the East finals — and they might not, given their shaky state and the Pacers’ ability to cover Anthony with one man — then Chandler could very well be finding himself packing his bags this summer, even if he did get voted to the coaches’ All-Defensive First Team that came out Monday. Anthony has a direct pipeline to Jim Dolan and the Garden boss is only too willing to accommodate his No. 1 box-office draw.

But that’s getting ahead of where the Knicks are right now, with Game 4 Tuesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse amounting to their season.

It’s bad enough for Woodson that J.R. Smith has missed the last two days of practice due to illness. Maybe the Knicks can send for Rihanna and she can help get their struggling sixth man back to where he can make a difference on the court for the first time since he threw that elbow at Jason Terry. Then there’s Kenyon Martin, who came down with whatever Smith has and has been in quarantine since late Saturday night. To add to the woes, Iman Shumpert, having his first big postseason as a Knick, has a sore knee that kept him out of practice on Monday.

But aside from the physical stuff that basically puts the Knicks on equal footing with just about every other team still playing, Woodson has a combustible internal situation to deal with, pitting his two most important players against each other. This is Anthony’s team, we all know. But Chandler, despite getting dominated by Hibbert, is still viewed as one of its leaders because he played a major role when the Mavs beat the Heat in the 2011 Finals and was imported to help show Anthony what it takes to win.

Although Woodson tried to turn it into a positive, saying “sometimes bickering amongst each other is pretty healthy,’’ you’d be hard-pressed to find a team with designs on winning the title with this kind of locker room drama on its hands, at such a pivotal time.
When we tried to get Chandler to talk about it on Monday, in a back corridor of the arena, he rushed by with his wing-man, Marcus Camby, and never applied the brakes, on his way to the team bus. All Chandler offered was a “What’s up?’’

Then Melo came down the same hallway 10 minutes later. After stopping to pose for pictures with several players on the WNBA Indiana Fever who had congregated for the team’s first workout of the season, Anthony met everyone with a tape recorder and notepad that he had stiffed on Sunday.

Anthony claims he hasn’t read a word about his own performances in these playoffs, which, if true, is smart. But the Chandler comments did not catch him off guard. Obviously, he’s got people who tell him what’s written, especially when he’s Topic A. So he knew his teammate was not talking about Pablo Prigioni when he called out unnamed players for trying to take over the game and take the big shot. Which, incidentally, is what Anthony is paid millions to do.

“If he feels that way, we’re about to get together right now and discuss that amongst ourselves and figure that out,’’ Anthony said. “We’ll handle that internally.’’

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