New York ? J.J. Redick, a member of Duke’s heralded recruiting class, scored 26 points, and Rashad McCants, part of North Carolina’s strong freshman class, added 22 to lead the East to the most-lopsided victory ever in the McDonald’s All-American High School Basketball Boys Game, 138-107 on Thursday night.

The silver anniversary game was televised nationally by ESPN and was played at Madison Square Garden, drawing a crowd of 16,505.

This one was never close as the East was ahead by at least 19 points throughout the second half and the energy associated with the dunks and fast breaks of a game of this type was missing.

But Redick, the MVP who was 10-for-15 from the field, including 5-for-6 on 3-pointers, and had four assists, and McCants, who was 9-for-12 from the field and grabbed six rebounds, had their future fans excited throughout.

The first McDonald’s game was played in 1978 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Rudy Woods, who went on to play at Texas A&M and in the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks, was the first MVP after grabbing 16 rebounds for the West.

Last year’s game was played at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium and Eddy Curry, one of the four high school players who were lottery picks in the NBA draft, was the MVP with 28 points and eight rebounds for the East.

The only players seriously considering the jump this year are 6-foot-10 Amare Stoudemire of Orlando, Fla., and 6-10 DeAngelo Collins of Inglewood, Calif.

Duke and North Carolina were the only schools represented by more than one recruit. The Blue Devils, who have to replace starters Jason Williams and Carlos Boozer, had four players Redick of Roanoke, Va.; Shavlik Randolph of Raleigh, N.C.; Sean Dockery of Chicago; and Michael Thompson of New Lenox, Ill.

The Tar Heels had three players: McCants, of New Hampton, N.H.; Raymond Felton of Latta, S.C.; and Sean May, of Bloomington, Ind., the son of former Indiana star Scott May.

Carmelo Anthony, who played at Virginia’s Oak Hill Academy and who will play at Syracuse, added 19 points for the East, while Jason Fraser of Amityville, N.Y., who will play at Villanova, had 13 points and 10 rebounds. Bracey Wright of The Colony, Texas, who will play at Indiana, had 16 points and 11 rebounds for the West, while Collins had 15 points, and Chris Bosh of Dallas, who will attend Georgia Tech, added 14 points.

The East took control of the game with a 12-0 run that made it 26-9 with 3:40 left in the first quarter. McCants had seven points in the run, including a 3-pointer.

The East took its biggest lead of the first half at 60-27 with 6:12 left in the second quarter when Anthony dunked a pass from McCants. The West scored six straight points, but the East answered with consecutive alley-oop dunk plays, the first again by Anthony and McCants, the second by Fraser and Elijah Ingram.

The East led 70-44 at halftime and the West twice got within 19, but Redick hit consecutive 3-pointers after the second time to make it 87-62 with 4:44 left in the third quarter. The previous widest margin of victory was 30 points in 1985 when the East won 128-98 at Dallas with MVP Walker Lambiotte, who played at Northwestern, getting 24 points on 10-for-12 shooting.