Carmelo Anthony is benched for one game costing him $176,000 of his $19.4M salary.  Though Garnett may have started the altercation in the Celtics-Knicks game Monday, Anthony waited for Garnett outside the Celtic team's bus. Anthony, though claiming to only want to have a "talk" with Garnett, but Vice President of the NBA, Stu Jackson believes otherwise.  Was Jackson out of line here?

Hitting newsstands soon is the new edition of SLAM Magazine with Carmelo Anthony gracing the cover with his new gold medal from London, the new Knicks threads for the upcoming season, and the Empire State Building behind him (not pictured: Melo's bronze medal from 2004). The time is now for 'Melo in NYC — do you think the Knicks make it out of the East this year?