Carmelo Anthony Western Conference Player of the Week

Congratulations to former OHA star Carmelo Anthony (‘02 grad) on being named the NBA’s Western Conference Player of the Week, as the NBA opens the 2009-10 season.

The Denver Nuggets forward was named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played from Tuesday, Oct. 27 through Sunday, Nov. 1.

Anthony, who leads the NBA in scoring at 37.7 ppg, has led Denver to its first 3-0 start since the 1985-86 season and only the fourth perfect start in team history.
 
For the week, Anthony averaged 37.7 ppg, 7.0 rpg and 4.3 apg in three games while driving Denver to home wins over Utah (10/28) and Memphis (11/1) and a road win at Portland (10/29). He posted his 11th and 12th career 40-point efforts in consecutive games with 41 at Portland and 42 against Memphis. With 30 points vs. Utah in the season opener as well, Anthony joins Alex English as the only players in team history to score 30 or more points in each of the first three games of a regular season.
 
Anthony has now garnered nine Player of the Week honors in his six-plus seasons in the NBA – building on his team record. Anthony received the award twice during his rookie season (weeks ending on Mar. 14 and Apr. 11), once during the 2005-06 season for the week ending on Mar. 19, three times during the 2006-07 campaign (weeks ending on Nov. 26, Dec. 3 and Feb. 11) and twice during the 2007-08 season (weeks ending Dec. 23 and Mar. 30).
 
Anthony is the first Nuggets player to be named Western Conference Player of the Week since Chauncey Billups was selected on Nov. 17, 2008 last season.