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It was a risk that they decided to take, and honestly, they didn't give up THAT much for it. I don't know how much those two LATE draft picks they gave to the 76ers would have helped their team in the future, even if the draft was "one of the deepest ones ever".

Lets face it, Carmelo Anthony and Andre Miller weren't going to come together and win an NBA championship this season, nor would they have won one with the players they had arround them in the next couple of years. Miller and Iverson are also the same age pretty much, give or take one year, so it isn't like they were giving up youth.

As for Smith being the sidekick... Did you watch the playoffs, and listen to Karl at all during the playoffs? Smith has fallen out of favour with George Karl and will probably have to fight to start a game next season. Also, his car crash history doesn't help him either.

Although, the poster posted this long time ago and I don't know why it was brought back up, so the original posters obviously were talking about Smith when he was shooting high percentages and going off for 15-20 points a game, but oh well, I felt like commenting on it.

The Iverson/Carmelo combination wasn't a terrible idea, and the Nuggets actually look like a pretty decent team heading into next year. They even gave the Spurs a little scare.