In 2006, led by third-year forward Carmelo Anthony, the Nuggets were a No. 3 seed without any All-Stars.
But there's no evidence he can thrive alongside his co-conspirator Carmelo Anthony, and win or lose in Game 3, the Knicks are assumed to be early playoff road kill.
The Bobcats moved into a tie with the Magic on Monday night as Henderson scored 27 points and Kemba Walker had 23 points and a career-high 13 assists to defeat a New York Knicks team playing without Carmelo Anthony and several others 106-95.
Instead, as the team's second-leading scorer behind Carmelo Anthony, he flashed brilliance in some games while hurting the Knicks in a handful of others.
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Amar'e Stoudemire led an early-season revival and Carmelo Anthony locked himself in the bedroom in Denver until the Nuggets dealt him to New York.
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The Knicks (21-10), who trailed by as much as 19 and never led the game, made things interesting late in the fourth, in part because of a 45-point performance by Carmelo Anthony, who has carried the team on his back to this point.
Remember, the Knicks aspire to join the NBA's front-tier, adding World Champion center Tyson Chandler to complement Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony and bolster a flawed team that went 42-40 and got swept by the Celtics in the first round of the playoffs.
The Miami Heat star was presented with the Maurice Podoloff Trophy for the fourth time in his career on Sunday after collecting 120 of the 121 first-place votes, with Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks picking up the lone remaining top choice.
They took away the Knicks' top offensive options: the pick-and-roll and one-on-one plays through star scorer Carmelo Anthony.
Carmelo Anthony and Raymond Felton both missed 3-pointers in the final minute, and Woodson made it clear he would have preferred his players drive the lane instead.
The Knicks romped to their first Atlantic Division title since 1994, getting 36 points from Carmelo Anthony and beating the Washington Wizards 120-99 for their 13th straight victory.
Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony left Thursday for this weekend's All-Star Game in Houston.
Carmelo Anthony led the Knicks with 31 points on 10-of-23 shooting.
Carmelo Anthony scored 21 points, including a clutch 3-pointer after the Celtics pulled within four late in the fourth quarter to help the Knicks hang on and advance in the postseason for the first time since 2000.
Syracuse returns on the 10-year anniversary of its only title, led by Carmelo Anthony.
He's played well lately, becoming the team's number-one scoring option this past week while fellow star Carmelo Anthony rehabs from a right knee injury of his own.
Even when he drilled two of his four triples Friday in Toronto, both Woodson and Carmelo Anthony expressed surprise at Kidd passing up a pair of wide-open shots.
Smith pass intended for Carmelo Anthony, turning the mistake into a breakaway dunk and the six-point margin by which his team would go on to win.
Secondly, defensive indifference toward Shumpert and Kidd has allowed teams to throw more defenders at Carmelo Anthony, who's posted a 40.8% field-goal percentage in February, his worst shooting month of the season.
D'Antoni resigned last week when he realized that Carmelo Anthony, the team's star, would never play his up-tempo style.
As for the game itself, Kevin Durant scored 19 points and LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony added 18 apiece to lead the U.S. into a gold-medal rematch against Spain on Sunday.
The Knicks were finally able to ice it out for good when superstar Carmelo Anthony (21 points), who'd missed his last 18 three-point attempts in a row, connected on a triple that gave the Knicks an 84-75 edge with just under two minutes remaining.
The Knicks didn't even need much from leading scorer Carmelo Anthony, who tied a season low with nine points and had his run of 20-point games snapped at 31, the longest single-season streak in franchise history.
Carmelo Anthony, the league's No. 2 scorer, finished with 15 points on 7-for-21 shooting.
Carmelo Anthony, whose recent struggles from the field continued through the first half, had been 7-for-18 before the timeout.
Carmelo Anthony added 22 points and Iman Shumpert had 16 for the Knicks, who started the season 6-0 but had played around .500 ball for much of the time since.
Syracuse has advanced to the Final Four four times, and Boeheim is 3-for-3 in the national semifinals, winning his lone national championship a decade ago in New Orleans with Carmelo Anthony.
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