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With the NBA trade deadline looming this week, it looks like two popular Denver Nuggets players are being shopped around and could be on the outs.

The Boston Celtic faithful were none too pleased when the team traded for forward Jeff Green earlier this season. This wasn't so much of a reflection on Green; he's a perfectly adequate NBA role player. Instead, Celtic nation was bummed that the price for acquiring Green included popular center Kendrick Perkins.

YouTube Kobe Bryant wasn't happy when referee Bennie Adams hit him with a technical in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the San Antonio Tuesday night. In fact, after Kobe had taken a seat on the bench, TNT's camera caught him directing a gay slur at Adams.

The Denver Nuggets traded stars Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups to the New York Knicks on Monday night, according to several reports. The Nuggets also sent some bench warmers in Shelden Williams, Anthony Carter and Renaldo Balkman. In return the Nuggets received Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, the Knicks' 2014 first-round pick, the Warriors' 2012 and 2013 se