=== Denver Nuggets Team Report - December 18 ===

(My Sportsbook) - Carmelo Anthony scored the game-winning basket on a tough driving lay-in with six seconds remaining, as the Denver Nuggets defeated the Seattle SuperSonics, 99-98, in a tightly-contested contest at Key Arena. Anthony finished with 14 points on just 6-of-18 shooting to help the Nuggets win their third game in four tries.

Voshon Lenard contributed 19 points for Denver, which was coming off a 116-94 thrashing of New Orleans Tuesday at the Pepsi Center.

Andre Miller played brilliantly despite suffering from a sprained shoulder in that game, coming one assist shy of a triple double. He posted 20 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists in this contest, helping the surprising Nuggets improve to 16-9 this season.

Seattle trailed by two at 97-95 until Rashard Lewis drove to the basket, converted over Denver's Nene and was fouled. He then made his one shot from the line to give Seattle the lead with 10.8 seconds left to play.

Anthony, though, came up big and converted the game-winning bucket down low following a timeout. Antonio Daniels then drove the length of the court attempting to re-claim the lead for Seattle, but Marcus Camby got a piece of the shot for his seventh block of the game to preserve the victory for the Nuggets.

Camby finished with 15 points, six rebounds and four assists, but had his string of three straight double-doubles come to an end.

Denver returns to action on Friday against the Los Angeles Lakers.