The Izod Center charity basketball game with Carmelo Anthony and his all-star friends is off, but Brooklyn is on.
Anthony, his buddy Chris Paul, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade will stage a charitable community event at the Boys and Girls Club of America on Tuesday, supplying 800 meals to Brooklyn families.
The entire four-city Homecoming Tour that would have ended Dec. 10 at the Meadowlands was officially called off last night because of the tentative agreement reached to end the NBA lockout.
The first three events (in New Orleans, Akron and Chicago) were to occur before the Dec. 9 training camp but it was deemed best to shelve it. The Meadowlands game never had a chance of happening because it was to be Dec. 10, which is after camp started.
Refunds will be distributed for those who bought tickets. Tickets for the Izod Center game went on sale last Wednesday.
Anthony and Paul have spent a lot of time together this summer, on the basketball court in charity games, in New York and even in China. Anthony told The Post in October he’d have “a smile ear to ear” if the Knicks signed Paul, a 2012 free agent.
The Knicks could have the second-most cap space in the league in 2012. The tentative new collective bargaining agreement calls for a $58.7 million cap, with a chance of it rising in 2012. The Knicks, unfortunately, may not have the young pawns and picks to land Paul in a trade with New Orleans this season because they all went in the Anthony trade with the Nuggets last season.