Carmelo blasts back at Barkley: ‘You know nothing about me’

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Carmelo Anthony (left) and Charles BarkleyPORTLAND, Ore. — Carmelo Anthony scoffed at Charles Barkley’s remark during the TNT telecast of Thursday’s Knicks-Kings game that Anthony needs to be “a better leader,’’ saying he’s never even met Barkley, and it “irks’’ him to hear criticism from somebody so detached from the Knicks.

Anthony also said the NBA’s daily written report stating he was fouled by Rajon Rondo on his last-second brick in Sacramento can’t change anything, and Anthony defended his decision not to whip the ball to an open Kristaps Porzingis, calling it “an impossible pass to make.’’

With the Knicks facing the Blazers to wrap up what’s been a disastrous Western trip,…