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Ugly brawl erupts in Nuggets-Knicks game

Ten players, including Anthony, ejected as fight breaks out at Garden

Image: Carmelo Anthony, Nate Robinson, Jared JeffriesAP
Denver's Carmelo Anthony, second from right, moves toward New York's Nate Robinson, right, during the fight that broke out in the fourth quarter of Saturday night's game.

Camby, Andre Miller, Eduardo Najera, Smith and Anthony were the Nuggets who were ejected; Channing Frye, David Lee, Collins, Robinson and Jeffries were the Knicks who were kicked out.

“Clearly this isn’t how we or the NBA wants to be perceived,” Thomas said. “It should have been a foul and the guy takes two free throws and maybe some words, but it shouldn’t have escalated. This isn’t even a rivalry.”

Highlights of the fight were on in NBA locker rooms around the league, and players stopped buttoning their shirts or paused mid-sentence during interviews to see what happened.

“Obviously, it’s unfortunate. You never want to see that. It just doesn’t belong in the NBA,” said Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki, who saw clips of the brawl shortly after the Mavericks had won in New Orleans. “Hopefully we can all forget about it as soon as we can.”

With each team forced to put five new players on the floor, Denver finished up the win and ended a two-game losing streak. Camby had 24 points and nine rebounds, and Miller added 12 points and 10 assists.

Anthony was in the midst of a superb second half, having scored 23 points in 23 minutes after halftime. He finished with 34.

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Camby, a former Knicks center, added seven blocked shots, and the Nuggets shot a season-best 57 percent from the field.

Stephon Marbury had his best game of the season for the Knicks, scoring a season-high 31 points and adding eight assists. Eddy Curry had 19 points, Robinson scored 17, and Lee finished with 12 points and 15 rebounds.

Notes: With the Nuggets a frequently rumored destination for Allen Iverson, Karl already has an idea what it’s like to coach the Philadelphia guard from talking to Brown. “I’ve probably heard all the stories,” Karl said. “I’ve heard about his Olympic experience with him, I heard about the Olympic team experience, period. Yeah, I’ve heard all the stories. Again, I’m not going to put a magnifying glass on things that I’ve never witnessed or been a part of.” ... The Nuggets gave 268-pound Nene his first start of the season to play against Curry, so starting center Camby didn’t have to. Camby would have been giving up 50 pounds to Curry, listed at 285. ... Frye returned after missing 10 games with a sprained left ankle and started in place of Quentin Richardson, who was out with back spasms.

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