Saturday, January 8, 2011

Carmelo Anthony, Nuggets Play Game of Chicken as Team Sinks

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - If this is indeed a game of chicken, as so many have deemed this trade deadline dance between the Denver Nuggets and Carmelo Anthony, then it looked like the muscle car was about to swerve right around the fixer-upper.

New Jersey, Dallas, Houston -- heck, even Sacramento -- probably seemed like better destination spots for the star small forward late Thursday night, when he sat slumped on the visitor's bench inside Arco Arena and let the unlikely celebration around him sink in. Like it or not, it was time to come to grips with the last 48 hours.

His Nuggets, that team for which he has played for eight seasons and seems sure to leave sometime in these next 48 days, had just fallen flat against two of the worst teams in the league. A 13-point loss at the Clippers on Wednesday night was one thing, but a 20-point, national-television shellacking from the lowly Kings was another.

 

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