Melo (Drama) Holding Nuggets Hostage

The Denver Nuggets have to make a decision in regards to Carmelo Anthony and they have to make it soon or risk either losing him for nothing or sabotaging the 2010-2011 season before we sit down to open presents or ring in the new year. Of course the optimal solution would be to keep him here in Denver but no one is sure if he wants to be here, Melo is an east coast guy as is his wife and moving back there makes sense for that reason, however the teams interested in him (Nets and Knicks) are light years behind the Nuggets even in the weird, odd, purgatory state the Nuggets find themselves in today.

Any trade that involves Melo will NOT be of fair value for the Nuggets as they would be getting pennies on the Dollar back for him. So the question then becomes is NOW the right time to blow up the roster and start over with an Aging Point Guard (Billups) who may not want to stick around while the Nuggets get younger and slip in the standings?

Watching the Nuggets this season has been strange, the Nuggets who have too much talent to not at least contend for a top 4 seed in the west are sometimes fun to watch and other times too painful to sit through. But it is odd to watch the team thinking "Is this what they will look like in April?" we've never been there with THIS CURRENT nuggets team.

So do we enjoy it for now...Or Countdown the days until the Trade Deadline?