NBA Online Wagering Update: Carmello Wants Traded…Who Cares?. There are several certainties in the online wagering such as the Indy Colts winning at least 10 games every year that Peyton Manning is behind center, the Al East being the toughest division in Major League Baseball and the USA basketball team beating up on every other national team in the world.
The world of NBA online wagering is full of rumors and half baked stories and it can often be difficult to sort fact from fiction in a world of 24-7 news and never ending blog posts. But in Denver one thing is very clear: the Nuggets offered NBA superstar Carmello Anthony a contract extension and he declined to sign it.
There are many ways to interpret this action, and indeed, Anthony has never gone on the record as saying he wanted to be traded. But if we may play armchair sports psychologist for a moment it is not all that difficult to draw the inference from these actions that he does not want to play in Denver after this contract expires next year. Indeed, there are betting lines on various online wagering companies’ sites on the various teams that ‘Mello could be playing on next season.
By refusing to sign an extension this puts the Nuggets in a tough position: let Mello play out the season and hope to re-sign him at the end of the NBA online wagering season with the very real possibility that he’ll walk and the team will receive nothing in return, or trade him now and get plenty of players to build around for the future.
It’s a calculated gamble on both the team and the players’ part. The Nuggets, a very good team that finished 53-29 last season and won the Norwest Division. Carmello, one of the top players in the league was a huge part of that success averaging 28.2 ppg. The Nuggets without Carmello are not as good, but if they can get quality players in return this team could actually improve. For all the hype that Carmello receives for his scoring, he’s a poor defender, a sub-par rebounder and so far in the NBA hasn’t been much of a winner
It’s also one of the worst kept secrets in the NBA online wagering world that he and his family want to be in New York. And that has led to the New Jersey Nets working round the clock to put together a trade package that includes the #3 pick in the 2010 draft, Derrick Favors.
While it seems likely that trade will happen, it’s just a matter of when: the immediate future or 6 months down the road. But at the end of the day who really cares? This trade won’t affect a title contender or make a title contender and it’s so dwarfed by the big moves the Heat made that there’s not much interest from NBA fans.