Bill Duffy told ESPN on Thursday that Carmelo Anthony will not appeal his 15-game suspension.

"It's Melo's wish to just keep the focus on basketball," Duffy said. "In his words, he's just going to take [the suspension] and keep the focus on keeping himself ready."

The suspension will cost Anthony $641,000.

"Melo's first mind is to say: 'Hey, that's the punishment and I'm willing to take it. Let's move on,'" said Calvin Andrews, Antony's primary agent. "If you go back into the history of people of punching people, no one's got 15 games. So if you look at precedent, yeah, it's excessive. If you look at the situation in the post-Detroit Era, I could see why it happened. That doesn't mean you've got to like [the suspension]."