Carmelo Anthony is still insisting he’s not leaving Denver, at least this week for sure, and he’s also saying that reports of the Nuggets giving the Nets permission to speak to him are false. There are so many conflicting reports lately from ‘sources’ it’s hard to know what is real and what is not. But you can’t do much better for accuracy of the situation than listening to ‘Melo himself. Sure he’s going to keep a lot of stuff on the D-L but he’s also not going to lie about the situation….
Anthony said following Sunday’s loss in San Antonio that he’ll be with the Nuggets back home Wednesday night against Oklahoma City, and remain in the lineup for at least two games after that, all the way through Denver’s game against Indiana on Jan. 23.
The All-Star also scoffed at what he called “false” reports of the Nuggets giving him permission to speak with the New Jersey Nets, where Anthony has been widely rumored to wind up for weeks amid intensifying trade talks.
“I don’t want to talk to nobody,” Anthony said. “I’ll let the front office handle that. It ain’t my job to be talking to New Jersey, New York, Lakers, Dallas, no one. That’s not my job to do.”
The Nets must receive permission from Denver to speak with Anthony or risk running afoul of tampering rules. But Anthony suggested he wouldn’t necessarily welcome the opportunity, even if that was the final hurdle to getting a deal finished.
“I still won’t step into something like that,” he said. “I understand a lot of people go through that. But for me to sit here and say I want to talk to them or (Nuggets general manager) Masai (Ujiri) and (Nuggets owner) Josh (Kroenke) gave them permission to talk to me, I think that’s false. If that was the case, I’m pretty sure I’d have gotten a phone call.”
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