"Kenyon Martin is reading the tea leaves. They are telling him this is probably his last year with the Nuggets. If that's the case, he says he can deal with it. It's just that he would have liked the organization to show him the respect of at least offering another contract.

But the Nuggets haven't. And Martin, who will make roughly $16.5 million in the last year of a seven-year, $90 million deal, isn't taking the snub lightly.

"I feel me being here and what I've done for this (team) . . . (an offer) would have at least been extended, and it wasn't," Martin said Thursday. "I don't know who made that decision, but the decision was made. And I ain't happy. They know it. Everybody knows it."

The 32-year-old forward is battling yet another knee injury, which required surgery in June. But without an extension, Martin said he will take his time returning to the team. If he had an extension, "I'd be playing right now.""