DENVER — The Denver Nuggets saw Mark Cuban’s apology.

What they really wanted was to hear it come out of his mouth.
Several Nuggets were skeptical about the sincerity of the Mavericks owner’s online apology to the family and friends of Denver players over incidents during Games 3 and 4 in Dallas.
The NBA said no punishments are planned.
“Matter is closed,” league spokesman Tim Frank told The Associated Press via e-mail Wednesday.
Carmelo Anthony, whose girlfriend LaLa Vazquez, had to be removed from her lower-level seats in Game 4, said it was unfortunate that Cuban chose to deliver an apology to Kenyon Martin’s mother via cyberspace.
“Man to man, that’s the way you should do stuff,” Anthony said Wednesday. “You should approach anything man to man. But he did it. It’s over with. We got no choice but to accept his apology.”
Asked if he thought Cuban’s blog, where the owner apologized to Martin’s mother and to other Nuggets fans, including Vazquez, whose experience at American Airlines Center was marred by confrontations with Maverick fans, was the wrong forum for an olive branch, Anthony said:
“No blog to blog. No Twitter to Twitter. Face to face.”
Martin also voiced his feeling that the blog apology to his mother was not the most genuine way to go about it.
“I don’t think it was sincere, to be honest with you,” Martin said. “My mom’s the nicest person in the world, man. He could have done it before. It was a calculated decision on his behalf.”
Martin also said he was dubious about Cuban’s absence from Game 5 at Pepsi Center. The owner was in Las Vegas to accept an award, something that was set up weeks go, Cuban said.
“It ain’t good,” Martin said. “He should have come. I don’t see why he wouldn’t come.”
Cuban declined to comment via e-mail.
Meanwhile, Anthony said the situations at AAC weren’t a distraction to the Nuggets, but he was concerned for everybody involved. He also stood up for his girlfriend, who released a statement that she and her group were taunted with racial slurs.
“Is it bothersome? Yeah,” Anthony said. “Anything that happens with your family bothers you a little bit. But as long as my family is OK, and everybody’s family on the Denver Nuggets is OK, we’re fine. I think what they did was inappropriate out there. But that’s over with.”