For most of his 10-season career, Anthony has been regarded as an offensive dynamo Charles Barkley, the ex-player, TNT analyst and basketball's Simon Cowell, describes Anthony to me as "the best scorer in the NBA" but there was the maddening suspicion that Anthony left potential on the table, that he lacked the crazy-eyed single-mindedness that separated the very good from the great.

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Mr Clark is steely-eyed about marketing toys which slither sexily down into single-figure age-groups.

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Even if you go back and include the prehistoric, pre-Super Bowl NFL playoffs, the ones deprived of Black Eyed Peas halftime shows, not a single other undefeated team has won a title.

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