Even With Nets Out of Picture, Carmelo Still Expects to Be Traded

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DENVER -- The New Jersey deal is dead. So it was easy for Carmelo Anthony to simply say Wednesday night it was Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov who killed it.



Never mind that sources have said the Denver forward wants to go to New York and never has had any desire to go to New Jersey. Never mind that Anthony spent last weekend talking about how he had no desire to meet with Prokhorov and how he couldn't understand why the Nets had been coming up in trade rumors.



Prokhorov announced earlier Wednesday that the Nets no longer would pursue trading for Anthony. That sounded like a good company line, and it's the one Anthony used in speaking to the media after he scored 35 points in Denver's 112-107 win over Oklahoma City at the Pepsi Center.



"I'm pretty sure (Prokhorov) was tired of it, going through the back and forth or whatever,'' said Anthony, who claimed he never told New Jersey he wouldn't sign an extension if traded there. "He didn't want to deal with it. ... The things you guys write about him, he probably got tired about it, he probably got fed up about it, and he wanted to move on.''

 

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