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The proclamation was a perfect prelude. Prior to Kenneth Faried's fourth double-double in six games — 21 points and 11 rebounds against the Portland Trail blazers on Tuesday — Greg Anthony said on NBA-TV that the Nuggets power forward should be an all-star reserve. "I think Faried has had an all-star caliber year," Anthony said on air. "When you play with the passion and fire that he plays with, it wills his teammates to compete just as hard." Denver Post

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Greg Anthony, a former first-round draft pick of the New York Knicks, has joined the YES Network as a Brooklyn Nets game analyst.He will premiere alongside play-by-play man Ian Eagle on Monday. Anthony joins Mike Fratello and Jim Spanarkel as YES’ Nets analysts. Ryan Ruocco will call games when Eagle isn’t available, and Sarah Kustok is the network’s Nets sideline reporter. Albany Times Union

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Former pro basketball player Greg Anthony is backing Mitt Romney for president in a new Nevada TV commercial. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas alum says in the ad that he voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 because he thought Obama was a centrist. Reno Gazette-Journal

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Anthony says he lost faith in Obama and is now supporting Romney, who he calls “a no-excuse kind of guy.” Reno Gazette-Journal

Media, Barack Obama, Greg Anthony, Mitt Romney 

On Friday, Miller admitted that he should have been called for a foul during the sequence and even issued an apology to Anthony, joking that the play was one of his basketball "sins." "I've got to say here, in 1995, as you saw in the video, yeah, I pushed," Miller said. "I'm sorry. The ref didn't call it. I went with it. Like Magic [Johnson] says, 'By any means necessary.' So I apologize, Greg. I've never said that publicly. So, Greg, I shoved you and I kept you down." CBSSports.com

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Greg Anthony, the former Knick, thinks there is a critical difference between the 430-odd NBA players who are locked out now and his group that was barred from the arenas by the owners in 1998-99. "The players are far more sophisticated now than we were,'' he told the Daily News recently. "And they're far better prepared.'' New York Daily News

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