Anthony is looking for a place to play

Carmelo Anthony is 35, and a man without an NBA team, but he still wants to play basketball. “Two-thousand percent,” he said Thursday night. “Make that the headline.”

Anthony was in Manhattan to be honored at the ALS Association Greater New York Chapter’s Lou Gehrig Sports Award Benefit and stopped very briefly to speak to reporters.

Regarding his free-agent status, the 10time All-Star and former Knicks player said, “I don’t really want to get into all that. I’m surprised, of course. But it is what it is at this point, though.

“I’m sitting back waiting to see what happens, spending time with the family right now, and that’s all I can focus on, and other things I have going on.”

Celtics

Guard Marcus Smart was fined $15,000 by the NBA for public criticism of the officiating. The NBA fined Smart Friday, a day after his comments following the Celtics’ 108-87 victory at Charlotte. “Really, just, I wish they would call the game the right way,” Smart said. “A lot of calls that they called, I didn’t understand where the fouls were. And it just seems like whenever I get the ball and I’m on offense, I can’t get a call.”

Heat

Although Justise Winslow was listed in the official box score as missing Thursday night’s 124-108 victory against the Phoenix Suns due to a “headache,” both Winslow and Miami came to suspect it was something more. Winslow sustained a blow to the head Tuesday night blowout loss to the Denver Nuggets in a collision that left Nuggets forward Paul Millsap requiring stitches. “Justise does have a concussion,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He’s going to go into the protocol.”

Hawks

Coach Lloyd Pierce said an upcoming five-game road trip will be a good test for his young team. He said he wasn’t happy with the way those young players responded to their first challenge of games on back-to-back nights, losing at home to Chicago Wednesday following a win against San Antonio.