If there was a positive thing that Carmelo Anthony could take from the Knicks’ brutal 2014-15 season, he said, it might be clarity.

On Thursday morning, Anthony came back to that word — and the general concept — several times to answer questions at the Knicks’ training complex. He was speaking to reporters for the first time since mid-February, when a major surgical procedure on his left knee brought his season to an early close. One day after the Knicks played their final game, a loss that dropped their record to 17-65, Anthony seemed intent on heralding the optimism that would replace the misery now that the season was over, now that the storm clouds had passed.

To start, Anthony, 30, acknowledged he did not have such clarity earlier this season. Asked if he had ever second-guessed his decision to sign a five-year contract with the Knicks last summer, he admitted that, from time to time, doubts had clouded his mind.

“I try to keep myself away from thinking like that, but as a human being, those thoughts definitely come into play,” he said. “You sit down at night, and you’re thinking, ‘Did I really make the right decision?’ and things like that.”