Carmelo Anthony was carefree, content and quick to smile during a chat with reporters on Friday.

Basically, he looked exactly like a player who had just won an Olympic gold medal.

“I’m just trying to enjoy this moment,” he said.

So when a reporter mentioned Charles Oakley’s recent criticism of Anthony and Amare Stoudemire, the Knicks’ star lightly dismissed the critique.

“I didn’t really hear exactly what he said, but at this point it really doesn’t matter,” Anthony said.

Oakley, an ex-Knick, said earlier this month that Anthony and Stoudemire “don’t make the people around them better.”

via Ian Begley of ESPN New York