Patience Young Grasshopper

As I write this the Nuggets just handed the Portland Trailblazers a double digit loss and looked pretty darn good doing it. The first half was a little tough with the Nuggets turning it over too much and the Blazers being hot from the three point line. Still, the Nuggets looked fresher and simply have better players compared to the injury riddled Portland team. Watching a game like this where Carmelo Anthony doesn’t necessarily have a good game, but other players step up to create a blowout victory makes me wonder if Melo would really want to go somewhere else by this point. Ok, Amare Stoudemire might be a “better” player than Nene, but other than him, who else on the Knicks can challenge position by position talent wise?

I started out imagining I would write this article trying to focus on other things besides the Melo-drama. It is just too hard to do. It is always on the minds of any Nuggets fan and will be until the trade deadline has passed. I personally have just gotten tickets to the Memphis game on the 22nd of February. I’m hoping everything will be resolved by that point and Melo will still be with us. I believe if he is on the team and everything is settled by the All-Star break, the Nuggets could come out and be the hottest team in the NBA. They have all the right pieces and are quietly playing really good ball over the last month. If everyone has bought in to winning by that point, the road wins will start coming and everyone will gel.

However, if the Nuggets do make a trade, and God forbid include Chauncey Billups in it, what could have been a great season with a chance for a great playoff run will be cut short and there will always be the what ifs. Patience is a virtue and sometimes the waiting is the hardest part (wink). Still, sometimes if you can hang on long enough and keep giving it your all, things will turn out better than you could have imagined. What if Hakeem Olajuwon had demanded a trade from the Rockets? It took him almost ten years, but his talent, hard work, and patience paid off with two championships in the end. The same thing happened for Elway and I am betting can still happen for Melo. If he is serious about wanting a Championship like he says he is, he owes it to himself and the fans to give it one more chance for the rest of this season. STICK IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!