I guess I get Doc's point of view, but the Knicks are up what, six games on the Celtics? Is it really Doc's job to protect other players?
I guess there is enough evidence already about Carmelo but seriously, it isn't your job Doc to protect people threatening to fight your team.
Why should Doc have said anything to implicate Melo? The NY media will do it for him, and Doc keeps his hands clean.
I guess I don't get the "hands clean." How is it dirtying your hands to say, "yeah I was walking into the locker room and I guess it was Carmelo yelling stuff at our guys. It got pretty intense and I just got my guys out of there before anything really bad happened."
If there isn't video of it, then it will definitely get downplayed by the league. They don't want their scoring champ looking badly.
The most likely scenario is that Doc doesn't think it's all that big a deal and doesn't want to get too involved.
But if we want to get all speculative and machivalian about it, Doc attaches a funny tongue in cheek quote to the incident on his behalf, and still gets to do it without being an informing source. So he looks coy and funny, while the NY media and others actually recount the incident in detail, keeping the story about Melo, wihout quoting him as a source.