text: Amar’e Stoudemire can only reflect on what could have been as frontcourt partnership with Carmelo Anthony implodes.
  
  After Game 1 in Miami, Carmelo Anthony did really say, “Now the fun starts.”
  
  We all looked at him like he was nuts, since he couldn’t escape LeBron James or Shane Battier in a 33-point beatdown, and the prospect of winning just one game in the first-round series against the Heat went from slim to virtually none.
  
  But in a way, Anthony’s line now has some truth to it.
  
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  He can have all the fun he wants and keep losing, which he does in the playoffs with alarming regularity, and Knick fans won’t hold it against him. Melo can shoot to his heart’s content and suffer another sweep and no one will care.
  
  Anthony got his playoff pass late Monday night, courtesy of Amar’e Stoudemire.
  
  Stoudemire literally does have blood on his hands for this Knick playoff debacle, even if they never had a chance to beat the Heat in the first place.
  
  By taking his best shot at that glass door in Miami and cutting his left hand, Stoudemire made this postseason all about him.
  
  It’s no longer about the fact that Anthony is looking at another quick first-round exit, which would be No. 8 in nine playoff seasons, or the fact that Anthony can carry a team in the regular season, as he did a few weeks back, but just can’t be like LeBron and the other big boys when the games really count .
  
  Now Stoudemire has the one thing he desperately craves: The spotlight. He hasn’t enjoyed it since he heard those M-V-P chants during his first 54 games in New York.
  
  Then Anthony arrived, because Jim Dolan wanted a bigger star and guess who got top billing on the Garden’s marquee?
  
  You felt bad for Stoudemire, but not that bad because he was still getting his $100 million.
  
  But look at what he has done to himself now. He has taken a career path no New York athlete ever wants to travel. He has moved from hero . . . to sympathetic figure . . . to bum.
  
  His act of selfishness/stupidity is the talk of the town and will be Topic A whenever the Knicks are discussed, right through the summer.
  
  Technically, the Knicks still have at least two more games to play, starting Thursday at the Garden. But as Mike Woodson continues to lose players, starting with Iman Shumpert, his top perimeter defender, and now Stoudemire, how can they win a game? Perhaps if the Heat shows some mercy and doesn’t want to make quick work of a wounded, vulnerable opponent, the Knicks get a game. Not that James and Dwyane Wade have exhibited any signs of compassion thus far.
summary: Carmelo Anthony got his playoff pass late Monday night, courtesy of Amar’e Stoudemire. By taking his best shot at that glass door in Miami and cutting his left hand, Stoudemire made this postseason all about him.