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Calvin Andrews is the agent for Carmelo Anthony, and he's had it up to to here with all this poppycock. Okay, he didn't actually say that, but he did tell the Rocky Mountain News that Carmelo Anthony was not being shopped in trade talks with the New Jersey Nets.

The best part about any NBA trade is the part where no one knows anything and there's nothing going on and everyone's denying it until it happens. Which is just as likely as nothing coming of it at all. It's like trying to predict the weather, in a cave, in a coffin, deep, deep in the cold,cold ground. However, there was more than one source claiming that the Nets deal was a conceivable approach, and in an offseason where Nuggets management is feeling the heat for drastic change, there isn't a bigger change that can be made than trading Anthony.

The Nuggets are at an impasse. Their current roster clearly isn't going to get it done, but keeping Melo through another rebuilding stint with his notorious opt-out clause for the Free Agent Armageddon of 2010 could be a risky proposition. We'll keep an eye out to see if Andrews is telling the truth or spinning the PR for his client.