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Carmelo Anthony miffed that Phil Jackson might want him out

TORONTO — The Knicks are losing, and when that happens, the subject of Carmelo Anthony’s future with the team always comes up with fans and media.

“They want me out?” Anthony asked reporters Sunday after the Knicks’ 116-101 loss to the Raptors at Air Canada Centre.

Except this time the issue wasn’t something a fan or unaffiliated member of the media said. It was an Internet column posted on Thursday by Charley Rosen, a former assistant coach and longtime confidant of Knicks president Phil Jackson.

In the piece, Rosen pretty much eviscerated Anthony, writing that his “legs are going, going, almost gone.