HOUSTON — Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony gave it a go in the team's shootaround this morning, but will not play tonight against Houston, coach George Karl said.
"I don't think he'll go tonight," Karl said. "I think right now we're going to hold him off until Friday."
It means Anthony will miss his second straight game because of a sprained left ankle.
Anthony, the NBA's second-leading scorer at 29.7 points per game, is on the road trip. But with an important division game against Oklahoma City on Friday, followed by a showdown against San Antonio on Sunday — which in the long run could determine playoff seeding — the team is playing it safe in hopes he'll be ready for those two games.
Anthony has had an injury-riddled January. He missed five games at the beginning of the month with a knee injury. But he returned from that with few issues. Still, he's played in just six of the Nuggets' 12 games this month. The Nuggets are 3-2 when Anthony is out of the lineup, but they might miss him a lot here in Houston, where they rarely win in recent years. This season, in the only meeting between the two teams until today, Anthony also scored 38 points with nine rebounds to lead the Nuggets to a win over the Rockets on Dec. 16.
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