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DENVER -- Is there a officiating conspiracy against the Denver Nuggets?George Karl seems to think so.
The Denver coach was upset at a last-second charging call on forward Carmelo Anthony, which cost the Nuggets in a 113-112 loss Thursday night to San Antonio at the Pepsi Center.
But even Karl said that play could have gone "either way.'' More interesting was a distraught Karl talking about how Denver center Nene got three fouls in the third quarter that he believed were phantom and that the Nuggets regularly send in film to the NBA office of calls on Nene they don't believe exist.
First, though, to the drama at the end of the game. After Spurs guard Manu Ginobili made a running banker with 4.2 seconds left for a 113-112 lead, the Nuggets inbounded. The ball eventually went to Anthony, who drove in against Ginobili.
Anthony made a runner with four-tenths of a second remaining. But the call on the floor was a charge on Anthony, and the Nuggets were done.
"No, obviously,'' Anthony, who scored a game-high 31 points, said about whether he thought it was a charge. "What I think and what they called are two different things. I thought I made a great play ... It's tough, you know, just going out there playing as hard as we played out there and to lose the game on something like that, just tough.''
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