Iverson is the ANSWER to Nuggets Troubles
Knicks-Nuggets brawl? BAH! Carmelo Anthony suspension? BAH! Kenyon Martin issue? BAH! (Nuggets powder blue unis?) BAH!
Yep, apparently, the Denver Nuggets literally found the ANSWER to all their troubles in NBA Basketball. After we saw the ”alleged” George Karl – Kenyon Martin feud unfold last season, after watching the New York Knicks and the Denver Nuggets kick each other’s ass the past few weeks and after seeing how the NBA slapped Carmelo Anthony with a 15-game suspension, all’s well in the rocky mountains of Denver.
For weeks, the Denver Nuggets were searching for an answer to all these bumps on the road for an NBA Championship. After completing a trade with the troubled Philadelphia 76ers, the Nuggets found an ANSWER, literally.
Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl is finding that the addition of Allen Iverson from Philly has brought much more to his team than 25 points and 11 assists a game, MVP-type stats in their own right.
Since joining the Nuggets, Iverson has shown he can talk a good game, too. His constant chatter with teammates has added a source of energy and positive thinking the Nuggets were missing, Karl said.
”It’s definitely an asset I didn’t know was there,” George Karl said. ”I hadn’t heard that about him. I heard he was a good teammate. His positive energy is right up there with Nate McMillan.”
McMillan was a key cog on Karl’s best teams in Seattle for many years. Now, it seems he has another one in Allen Iverson. Yep, Philly had no idea what they were giving up BIG TIME.
”There’s no question that’s a valuable asset,” Karl said. ”Last year our team didn’t fall apart, but it broke apart a little bit because of our being negative toward one another.”
That fracture led to a third consecutive first-round playoff exit. Now with Allen Iverson, and later with Carmelo Anthony, they might just be good enough to earn home court advantage throughout the playoffs. Well, we’re hoping anyway.
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