The fact that Martin is paying Dr. Steadman a visit speaks volumes about the potential seriousness of Kenyon’s injury. Season-ending knee surgery for the dominating defensive forward is not out of the question.
Amazingly, Karl says he will try to make it back to the Nuggets’ bench for Friday’s game at New Orleans. Radiation treatments to this point have had minor side-effects, but today’s surgery immediately followed by tomorrows Chemotherapy will likely have a more profound effect.
The groove is contagious, and that’s why we saw Aaron Afflalo, Johan Petro and even Anthony Carter making plays throughout a 3rd Quarter where Portland fought tooth & nail to scrape their way back into the game.
Melo is becoming Kevin’s go-to rival in a Northwest Division that lacks any other talents of Durant’s caliber.
The good news for Nuggets fans is that Game Four is in Denver and will be nationally televised. With the exception of a certain notorious 2002 Game 6 and the less notorious 2006 Games 3-5, the NBA is pretty sly about their big-game fixes.
The last two times the Nuggets and the Lakers played, Ty Lawson had his best and second-best performance of the season. His short stature makes him difficult to guard by the giant frontcourt LA employs.
While Chauncey took it upon himself to fuel the offense with timely scores and a general’s bravado, Carmelo Anthony played the part of Referee Lobbyist.
For the majority of this game, Boston was the better team, but during the time the Nuggets were the better team they just crushed the Celtics.
The Nuggets were simply the more explosive team in a game that saw the Celtics struggling to gain ground after Denver pulled out to an early lead. Boston could never muster the offensive firepower to catch up, and each time the Nuggets’ lead dwindled they responded with powerful offensive runs.
It all started with an innocuous free throw miss in the third quarter. Carmelo Anthony was just two points shy of 12,000 for his career, and the Nuggets were ahead by double-digits.
