and the Answer is...

...a Nugget. Alan Iverson, Carmelo Anthony, and George Karl...this could be interesting. Either way. Two talented thirty point scorers, each wanting the ball, and a brilliant but volatile coach not known himself for playing well with others. Of course, there is the Olympic experience...and the natural desire to make nice in the first days of a new relationship. But it's not so much the 60 points as it is the shot attempts they both will need in order to put up those kinds of numbers on a regular basis. If they can learn to make each other better this is going to be fantastic. But if they just end up competing to be 'the Man," this deal might just turn out to be a Mile-High Nightmare.

In any event, the Little Guy now has the team to himself for a month, while "Melo Yellow" serves out that 15 game suspension for his sucker punch against the Knicks. The Sixers get veteran point guard Andre Miller, cap relief and future draft choices. The guy I feel most sorry for is rookie Ivan McFarlin, thrown in by Philadelphia to make the numbers work. Denver didn't even ask him to take a physical, which means he will probably be waived and released. Maybe he's good enough to catch on with another team, or maybe he's headed for the developmental league or overseas. But his NBA career may well be over before it even got started. All because a superstar thinks it's OK to blow off practice.