The trade deadline could not come soon enough. Yahoo! Sports and Chris Broussard is reporting that the Denver Nuggets have re-engaged the Nets in talks to receive Carmelo Anthony. Although there are conflicting reports as to who initiated the contact. (I'm gonna roll with Adrian W. story that it was Denver that initiated the contact instead of Broussard's, just because...) Apparently they have been in discussions for about a week now and a new scaled down trade proposal centers around Derrick Favors and draft picks.
There no word on whether Carmelo would sign an extension with NJ or this is a "rental" deal. In either case, it seems that Denver is play with the minds of all the teams they feel are interested in order to maximize gains from the projected loss of Anthony. With all the uncertainty and different variables that have come into play during this whole "Melo Saga", I am definitely ready to put this drama to rest. TMZ ought to start covering this story... http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-anthonynets021611
Update 2/17/2011: @WojYahooNBA
Adrian Wojnarowski: Denver-NJ in advanced talks on Anthony, Billups, Balkman, Melvin Ely, Shelden Williams for Favors, Harris, Murphy, Ben Uzoh and 4 1st rounders, source tells Y!
Mind you all, these is all still contingent on Carmelo Anthony agreeing to sign the 3 year-65 million dollar extension with NJ. The ball is once again in Carmelo's court. The source also states that it was the Nuggets that reached out to NJ to re-engage them in talks.
Plus ESPN reports that the Dallas Mavericks may still be players in this thing. However Mark Cuban refutes those reports.
By Jeff Caplan
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