The Nets and Nuggets continue to discuss a blockbuster trade that would bring Carmelo Anthony to New Jersey, but Avery Johnson is focused on the players he has currently.

"This is the team that will be playing on the whole road trip," Johnson said before the Nets left for a four-game road trip.

Johnson backed off the comment when asked if that meant a potential trade was on hold.

"I don't make guarantees," he said. "That's not my job. I don't make guarantees. No. I don't even know if I was that good when I was in the media at making predictions. I had a few right, and the few that I got right I let everybody know about them consistently. But the other ones that I didn't get right, we don't talk about those. The point is, we're going to have this team throughout the road trip."