Fans quick to acquit Anthony

The road to forgiveness started early.

Long before tipoff, as a matter of fact.

Sitting about five rows up in Section 126, longtime season-ticket holders Jan and Jerry Selinfreund expected Carmelo Anthony and the Nuggets to redeem themselves in Game 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers.

"Pick yourself up, dust yourself off," Jan said. "It's a whole new ballgame."

When the capacity crowd gradually filed into the arena, Nuggets fans echoed that sentiment in unison, cheering Anthony wholeheartedly during pregame introductions.

Apparently, there ain't no quit among the die-hard fans.

"I don't want to blame a player," Jerry Selinfreund said. "Even when I'm down on a player, it's usually for a very short time. I bounce back because we're fans. This is our city."

About 48 hours after proclaiming he, his coaches and his teammates "quit" in Game 3 against the Lakers, Anthony was not treated as a hostile witness in his own house.


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