Linas Kleiza

Toronto has signed free agent Linas Kleiza to a mul­ti­year contract.

The Rap­tors acquired the rights to Kleiza nine days ago when the Den­ver Nuggets opted not to match Toronto’s offer sheet. Kleiza played with Greek club Olympiakos last year after four sea­sons in Denver.

The 6-foot-8 for­ward from Lithua­nia aver­aged 8.3 points with the Nuggets.

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Al Har­ring­ton

The Den­ver Nuggets reached an agree­ment in prin­ci­ple Tues­day night on a five-year, $34 mil­lion con­tract with free-agent for­ward Al Harrington.

The Nuggets had to out­bid the Dal­las Mav­er­icks to secure Harrington’s sig­na­ture after Dal­las fol­lowed up its trade acqui­si­tion of Tyson Chan­dler ear­lier Tues­day with a hard push for Harrington.

The for­mer New York Knicks backup tweeted: “I’m tak­ing my Tal­ents to the MILE HIGH.”

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Carmelo Anthony

The Nuggets will not trade Carmelo Anthony, regard­less of what hap­pens with his con­tract exten­sion negotiations.

“There is no way we are trad­ing Carmelo Anthony,” the offi­cial said. “We’re 100 per­cent cer­tain of that.”

The Nuggets have offered Anthony a three-year, $65 mil­lion con­tract exten­sion until 2015.

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Andris Biedrins

The Nuggets are attempt­ing to acquire Andris Biedrins from the Warriors.

Golden State is look­ing to shed the $9M annual con­tract of Biedrins.

Den­ver is hav­ing dif­fi­culty match­ing the salaries since they only have J.R. Smith and Kenyon Mar­tin to offer.

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Carmelo Anthony

Carmelo Anthony has one more year left on his con­tract with the Den­ver Nuggets before he can opt out of it and become an unre­stricted free agent.

The Nuggets are feel­ing like he may do just that and the team “is pre­pared to trade Melo rather than let him walk” next sum­mer, accord­ing to a source.

Anthony will make $17 mil­lion this sea­son and the Nuggets have been try­ing to get him to sign on for a $65 mil­lion exten­sion that would have him in Den­ver through 2015.

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Carmelo Anthony

The Nuggets have offered for­ward Carmelo Anthony a con­tract exten­sion worth $65 mil­lion, accord­ing to NBA sources.

It was reported on Wednes­day that Den­ver and Anthony could come to terms on an exten­sion prior to Thurs­day night’s NBA Draft.

Anthony will have to con­sider the NBA’s uncer­tain future. It is pos­si­ble that max­i­mum con­tracts will be decreased under a new col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agreement.

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Linas Kleiza

Linas Kleiza aver­aged 17.1 points and nearly seven rebounds last sea­son for the Greek team Olympiakos. Now, the Den­ver Nuggets would like him back doing such things for them, accord­ing to sources.

The team has made a qual­i­fy­ing offer to Kleiza, whose rights are still owned by the team he played for from 2006–2009.

Kleiza’s agent responded by say­ing that the player is not mov­ing back to North Amer­ica any­time soon. “We have no plans to sign with the Nuggets,” he said.

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Dar­ren Collison

The Nuggets are inter­ested in trad­ing up in this month’s NBA Draft and the Pac­ers could be a fit for a deal.

Indi­ana has the 10th over­all pick and would like to land point guard Ty Law­son from Denver.

Mike Wells of the Indi­anapo­lis Star reports that the Pac­ers are inter­ested in Law­son, while ESPN.com’s Chad Ford wrote that the Nuggets are look­ing to jump into the top ten.

The Pac­ers have also reached out to the Hor­nets about Dar­ren Collison.

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Carmelo Anthony

A refresh­ing note on free agency that does not include LeBron James: Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony said Sun­day he will look into a poten­tial three-year exten­sion with the team this summer.

“Well see what hap­pens,” said Anthony, whose con­tract is up after the 2010-11 season.

“I think my agent (Leon Rose) is going to talk to them in a week or so. And if there’s some­thing on the table, then we’ll go to the table and see what’s the best sit­u­a­tion for me.”

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Chris Ander­sen

Den­ver Nuggets F/C Chris Ander­sen under­went surgery on Tues­day to repair a par­tial tear of the patella ten­don in his right knee.

The surgery was per­formed by Dr. Steven Traina, Nuggets Team Physician.

The injury occurred dur­ing Game 2 of the Nuggets first-round play­off series against the Utah Jazz on April 19.

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