<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It is not that Carmelo Anthony needs reminding again, and yet again, that he is not LeBron James, and the truth is that such a thought does not enter most minds while James is carrying his basketball team where Anthony can't. But there it is, the loud, long commotion that is the NBA playoffs, with the greatest noise coming from Cleveland, a team no better than the Nuggets, led by a player once the other half of the pair that would be the next Magic and Bird. The more James does, the farther behind fades Anthony, the more entitled is Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke to look at the Cavaliers and demand to know, "Why isn't that us?" If that is not the question asked of Kiki Vandeweghe before the Kikster was sent off with mild thanks and little regret, it should have been. And when the next Nuggets architect of tomorrow is hired to replace Vandeweghe, it is the only answer that matters. This goes for coach George Karl, too, and when a compatible leadership is gathered for whatever happens next to the Nuggets, the only job that really matters is how best to make Anthony into what he is supposed to be. Even celebrating a third-team All-NBA selection only emphasizes the discrepancy between what others are and what Anthony is not. There is James with more votes than anyone and Miami's Dwayne Wade, a rung ahead of Anthony. What makes it more central is that there waiting for James is Wade, the other NBA wonder child whom Anthony is not, admittedly benefiting from the giant distraction that is Shaquille O'Neal, but more now Batman to O'Neal's Robin than the other way around. </div> Source
