With training camp less than two months away, we’re examining the burning questions facing the New York Knicks.

Today’s question: Can the Knicks win a title with Carmelo Anthony?

The Knicks won in free agency this summer by managing to re-sign Anthony despite suitors like the Bulls, Lakers, Rockets and Mavericks all coming after him.

So now that the Knicks have locked him up to a $124 million deal spanning five years, can their franchise player repay them with a championship?

The answer will define Anthony’s legacy. Will he be one of the league’s great scorers who couldn’t lead his team to a title? Or will Phil Jackson take his latest project and turn another elite scorer into a winner?

If Jackson is going to get similar results from Anthony as he did from Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, the Zen Master will have to provide him with a better supporting cast. While the Knicks have enough talent to make the playoffs this coming season, they don't have a championship-level roster.

Jackson’s task is to take the cap space the Knicks will have next summer and turn that into another star player or multiple reinforcements. Actually, Anthony will need more than one star to team up with, considering he likely will have to face LeBron James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving for years to come.

If Jackson can add the talent needed, and his pupil Derek Fisher becomes the coach Jackson believes he can be, Anthony won’t have many excuses not to succeed. This is a pivotal time in his career.

By re-signing with the Knicks, Anthony showed his belief in Jackson’s plan, and that trust that the Knicks president will be able to surround him with the cast he needs. In return, Anthony will have to adapt to the triangle offense and show he can be the team player Jackson wants him to be -- that he can make his teammates better, that he can lead and inspire his teammates, and that he will buy into whatever Jackson and Fisher want in order to win a championship.

But unfortunately for Anthony, it won’t be as simple as adapting to what Jackson wants and buying in. He needs the right talent around him in order to overcome James and the rest of the Cavaliers.

That is why I don’t think Anthony will be able to lead the Knicks to a title. Unless Jackson somehow secures two more studs to join Anthony in the near future, it will be very difficult to beat James and the Cavs. Young players like Irving, Dion Waiters and Tristan Thompson will learn how to win from James in the next two or three seasons.

The task of beating Cleveland will only get more difficult in the coming years, barring something unforeseen. So Anthony will need his own pair of stars around him to combat James, Love and Irving. All the while, the rest of the East will get tougher as teams try to catch up to the Cavaliers.

A lot of things will have to go right for the Knicks in the coming years, things that are out of Anthony's control. I think he can grow and will eventually evolve into a player who can win a title with the right cast around him. I’m just not sure that will happen in New York with James and his new posse in Cleveland.

Question: Do you think Anthony can lead the Knicks to a title?