In perhaps his strongest comment since early November regarding his free-agent future, Carmelo Anthony appeared Tuesday night to second his wife La La’s remarks from the previous day.
In promoting her new book, “Love Playbook,’’ La La Anthony said in a Bravo interview she “definitely thinks’’ Anthony will re-sign with the Knicks following this season.
When The Post asked Anthony, who has an opt-out clause in his contract, about the remark following the Knicks’ win over the Celtics, he said: “That’s my wife. I support her. I don’t think she said anything wrong. It’s a good thing for her to say that.
“Go get the book though,” Anthony added. “Definitely your wives and girlfriends will enjoy the book.’’
With the book’s release Tuesday, La La broke some news, finally denying Kevin Garnett told her husband she tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios during a Celtics-Knicks game last season.
Anthony’s celebrity wife had never denied the incident that occurred in a Garden game last January.
“I wasn’t ever going to bring up the Honey Nut Cheerios incident again. But since I’m writing this book, I might as well set the record straight for good,’’ La La wrote. “Kevin Garnett in fact had never said that I tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios. I tried to figure out how this big lie was turned into a media firestorm. I still can’t answer that one. … Melo and Kevin are cool today. And now it’s nothing but a faint memory.’’
That said, Garnett’s trashtalking was damaging. La La revealed Anthony had choice words for Garnett on the court and then afterward when Anthony confronted him near the locker-room area and by the Celtics team bus. Anthony received a one-game suspension for the offcourt confrontations.
“I asked Melo about it and all he said was that Kevin said things you shouldn’t say to a person you have a friendship with or respect for,” she wrote. “ [Melo] told him, ‘I’m not some rookie. We’ve been in this league a while together so don’t treat me the way you’d treat a rookie.’ I’m sure the words were a little stronger than that but that was the gist of what Melo said back to Kevin.’’
Days after the incident, Vazquez sent out a coy tweet that read, in part, “We ALL deserve free cereal 4all the publicity we’ve given Honey Nut Cheerios, #cantbelieveeverything’’
“At first I was embarrassed and angry but then I just had to laugh about it,’’ La La wrote. “I mean, that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard and if Kevin Garnett had actually said that about me, what exactly did it mean? Because he and I were never more than passing acquaintances. It was just dumb.
“While people had a lot of fun with the whole Honey Nut Cheerios thing, the truth is they couldn’t really take it much further than that because of how I carry myself.”
The book is billed as La La’s guide on love, sex and relationships and she admits to “difficulties in our relationship in 2012’’ but is not specific.