Carmelo Anthony will face the Knicks with his new team Tuesday night in Portland, but another former team remains on his mind.

Anthony, who was dumped by the Rockets 10 games into last season, said Sunday night that he hardly was surprised about fellow star Chris Paul’s abrupt departure from Houston in the summertime trade with Oklahoma City for Russell Westbrook.

“No, I wasn’t surprised at all,” Anthony told ESPN after Portland’s 108-96 loss Sunday to Paul and the Thunder. “When my situation happened in Houston, he was the first person that I called to come to my room. And we had to clear some things up, and I wanted to know if he had anything to do with it. And that was the first thing that I wanted to know, and he told me, ‘No.’

“And from that point on, I told him, looked him in his eyes and said, ‘Look, just be careful.’ You know what I mean? Just be careful. And damn sure if [the same situation] didn’t happened to him.”

Melo, who played for the Knicks from 2011 through 2017, was traded by Houston to Chicago last January and subsequently waived. The 10-time All-Star couldn’t find another NBA job until Portland signed him last month; he’s averaging 15.9 points in his first 10 games (all starts) with the Blazers.

Anthony said he’s spoken to “nobody in the (Houston) organization” since his departure and insists he’s not “angry or bitter” at GM Daryl Morey or the Rockets. “I wish I had an explanation when it happened, but I’m past it,” he added.

When asked by ESPN whether “there’s a feeling around the league that Morey and the Rockets might not be straight shooters after the situations with both him and Paul,” Anthony responded, “Well, nobody has an answer, right?”

“My situation and Chris’ situation is totally different, but nobody has an answer,” Carmelo said. “Like, nobody really has an answer for my situation. Still. The only people that know is me. Me and them. That’s it. And I don’t even think they know.

“It’s just something that was already established before I even got there. It was on a trial-run basis. You look back at it, and 10 games is an evaluation. So that’s the business, right? You see New York have a press conference eight games in, 10 games. So that’s the new analytics. That’s the new game. Everything’s based off of your first 10 games. And once you know that, it gives you clarity on a lot of things.”

Paul, the nine-time All-Star point guard, recently told The Undefeated that Morey had told him he would not be traded, only to be dealt less than a week later as part of Houston’s package for Westbrook.

“I was shocked,” Paul told The Undefeated. “Truth be told, I just talked to Daryl a couple days before the trade, and he said he wasn’t going to trade me [to OKC]. That’s funny because that is going to be the alert that pops up on everybody’s phone because nobody knows that. But what the hell, I just said it.”

Anthony and Paul hugged before Sunday’s game between their new teams. Paul netted 20 points, with Anthony scoring nine on 4-of-18 shooting in 35 minutes.