Carmelo Anthony said to keep fighting, so the Nuggets did against the Lakers

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Denver Post columnist Mark Kiszla points to a moment in the second quarter, when the Nuggets were down by 13 points Thursday night to the Lakers, as the turning point.

Carmelo Anthony told Chauncey Billups, ‘Keep fighting,’’ punctuating it with an expletive.

The Nuggets fought all the way back, winning 106-103.

‘The Nuggets have so much fight no sane man would want to mess with them,’’ Kiszla wrote.

‘Quitting is not an option for Denver. Even at the point in the first half when every Lakers score looked as easy as a layup drill. Even when it appeared so helpless for the Nuggets that their old coach Doug Moe walked out of the arena, straight into the darkness of the night, and climbed on the team bus, where he watched L.A. stretch its lead on a TV in misery with the driver.’’

-- Randy Harvey