Carmello

The NBA season is reaching its climax. The playoff picture is beginning to take shape and teams are falling out of the race, or fighting to stay alive for another day. Teams like the Lakers, Celtics and Heat barring a monumental collapse all figure to be in the playoffs at season's end. However, there are still teams out there doing their best to stay in the playoff hunt.


With the trade deadline just over a week away, GMs are on the phone checking to see who is available. One name that seems to have been available all season is Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets are hanging on to the seventh spot in the Western Conference, so it seems silly that they’d trade their best player.

Nevertheless, Carmelo is asking for a three-year deal and somewhere around $65 million, which may be more than the Nuggets can afford or are willing to pay, even for a player like Anthony. However, after the LeBron James saga this offseason it seemed inevitable the spotlight would fall on Anthony and where he decided to play in 2011-2012.

Those headlines came earlier than expected this year.

There were rumors that he was headed to the Nets in a three-team trade. A trade that would have involved 11 players (including ‘Melo) was shot down after the Nets backed away last month.

Now the question is where will Carmelo go?