DENVER (AP) -Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony will miss Denver’s game at Detroit on Tuesday night because he has to deal with a personal matter back in Denver.
Team spokesman Eric Sebastian said he had no further details, including whether Anthony was dealing with a medical issue.
He’s been bothered by a balky knee and has shot poorly his last two games, going just 12-of-41 from the field.
Anthony is averaging a team-high 21.6 points and 7.4 rebounds but has missed 15 games already this season: 10 with a broken bone in his right hand that cost him an All-Star bid, three because of a troublesome right elbow and two for a team suspension to start the season following a drunken driving arrest last year.
This is the Nuggets’ first trip to Detroit since the Nov. 3 trade between the teams sent Chauncey Billups to Denver and Allen Iverson to the Pistons.
Iverson with be out for the third straight game Tuesday night because of a bad back.
their game at The Palace and face Portland Thursday night at the Pepsi Center, the first of four games in five nights for Denver, which leads the Trail Blazers by 1 1/2 games and Utah by two in the tight Northwest Division.
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