Can’t blame this on Carmelo Anthony can you?

Can you?

After missing seven games with a groin injury, the NBA All-Star saw his first action with the New York Knicks since Jeremy Lin has turned their season around.

Tonight, the Knicks lost to the lowly New Jersey Nets, 100-92, at Madison Square Garden. The last time the Knicks saw the Nets, Lin had 25 points off the bench in a 99-92 win Feb. 4.

The Knicks went 7-1 with Lin starting before Anthony came back tonight. In his return, Anthony shot 4-of-11 for 11 points in 37 minutes. Anthony had six assists, which shows he can share the ball, but also had six turnovers, which shows he can share it with the other team, too.

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Coming off an 113-106 win Thursday night at Fort Wayne, the Erie BayHawks will try to get a win in their final game before the all-star break tonight against Dakota at 7 at Tullio Arena.

The BayHawks (15-16) will be without point guard Keith McLeod, who injured his hamstring in Thursday’s win. Chosen to play in the next week’s D-League All-Star game, McLeod will make trip to Orlando for the game, Erie coach Jay Larranaga said after today’s shootaround at Tullio Arena.

The Wizards beat the BayHawks, 128-118, last week at Tullio Arena when they shot 75 percent from the field in the fourth quarter and made their final 11 shots.

Aminu has averaged 19.3 points and 9.2 boards in his nine games with Bakersfield since Erie traded him for Blake Ahearn.

The Sun Sentinel out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is reporting former Erie BayHawk Alade Aminu will make his NBA debut with the Miami Heat on Sunday against the Toronto Raptors.

Aminu, an All-Star D-League power forward who was traded to Bakersfield for guard Blake Ahearn, will be on a 10-day contract with the Heat. Out of Georgia Tech, Aminu was in Miami’s training camp last fall.

I got in touch with Aminu on Friday morning and he confirmed the news to me then. Then later that night after the BayHawks beat Fort Wayne, I talked with Erie rookie point guard Cedric Jackson about it.

“He sent me a text message the other day at like 2 o’clock in the morning,” said Jackson, who has received two NBA call-ups this season with the Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs.

“I’m like, OK. He said, ‘I’m going to call you tomorrow.’ I know he was excited. I told him I was extremely proud of him. Just told him to work hard and make sure he focuses and do what he do because that’s where he belongs.”

This one got ugly.

The Erie BayHawks shot just 36 percent from the field in their 102-78 loss to the Iowa Energy (25-6) on Saturday night. Erie (12-19) shot 2-of-12 from 3-point range with Frank Tolbert making both of them.

Considering he’s a 23.1 percent shooter from behind the arc, the BayHawks could have easily gone 0-for-12. Jackie Manuel came back from the flu, but was ineffective as he scored seven points on 3-of-12 shooting.

What’s even more puzzling is Erie’s All-Star forward Alade Aminu didn’t score, going 0-for-5 from the field. Mike Gansey also struggled as he shot 4-for-12 to finish with eight points. Gansey was averaging nearly 20 in his games with Erie.

The BayHawks are now 0-7 against the Energy, but will have another chance to beat them Tuesday at Iowa. Odds aren’t in their favor to say the least.

He's not an All-Star anymore, but Allen Iverson is still one of the game's most popular players.

19 games. 1.4 ppg and  4.4 assists per game.

Those don’t look like All-Star type numbers, but that’s what Allen Iverson has delivered this season.

Isn’t startling, but the fans love him. So much so that they voted Iverson a starter for the upcoming All-Star game next month in Dallas.

I go back and forth on this.

Iverson is a future Hall of Famer, but he’s on the down end of his career and seemingly quit on Memphis before rejoining the 76ers this season.

However, he isn’t playing too bad for Philly and other than Rajon Rondo of Boston, what other guard in the East is worthy of being a starter in the All-Star game?

I’m waiting.

The police allegedly found suicidal notes at the scene where New York police subdued Jayson Williams with a stun gun Monday.

It’s hard to believe that at one time, Jayson Williams was one of the most beloved players in the NBA.

Had the big personality. Big desire to get rebounds.

Now he’s in even bigger trouble.

The latest involves him allegedly trashing a suite “in a suicidal rage” and having to be subdued by a stun gun.

For those who don’t know, Williams was an All-Star center with the New Jersey Nets before suffering a career-ending injury in 1999.

He faded out the public eye before getting charged with reckless manslaughter in the death in February 2002 of a chauffeur. Williams even tried to make a comeback in 2005 in the CBA for the Idaho Stampede, which is now in the D-League, but failed to make back in the NBA.

Now with his retrial coming up in the manslaughter case, Williams is in even more trouble. Is this as bothersome to you all as it is to me?