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No one outside the Nuggets seems to know exactly what Carmelo Anthony did to cheese off team management during the team's Sunday loss to Indiana. But Benjamin Hochman of the Denver Post has an idea, culled from team sources: 'Melo refused to come out of the game at George Karl's behest during the third quarter.As such, the team (flailing a bit over the past week) has suspended the star for Tuesday's game at Detroit. Hochman reports that 'Melo didn't practice with the team Monday and won't make the trip.
For the team to suspend 'Melo at this point, with every game critical and every game a challenge at full strength, there has to be some severe context involved. Has Anthony acted in this fashion frequently? Did 'Melo react to Karl's substitution call in an overtly destructive manner? (Mike Wolf found no televised evidence of this.) Because, in all honesty, stars constantly tell coaches they do not want to come out. Every brand of NBA player waves off the bench -- LeBron, Kobe ... Ron Artest. (I have never seen a player refuse to come out more than Ron Artest. Of course, I've also never seen a player refuse to run the play called by the coach more than Ron Artest.)
The fact that Karl allowed 'Melo to get away with it -- he didn't call time-out to force Anthony out -- tells me there is something else going on here. To be sure, Karl and Anthony have always had a seemingly uneasy relationship. Every coach-player relationship has far more nuance than we as fans (and occasional witnesses) will ever know. But smoke and fire and all of that.
Denver VP Rex Chapman (one of 2,000 cooks in the Nuggets kitchen) said 'Melo knows what he did was wrong and will move forward. At some point, though, one side of this equation is going to tire of the other. If that gets Anthony on the trade block or gets Karl canned ... well, that might be best for the franchise. You don't see too many world champions bicker amid the throes of a playoff push.
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