Denver Nuggets Sack Coach Michael Malone and GM Calvin Booth

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00:00Denver chopped head coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth.

00:05And it is kind of funny, Scotty.

00:08You know, you don't hear a lot of this stuff.

00:10And then as soon as something like this happens, then all the stories come out.

00:14Apparently, these two guys absolutely hated each other, Malone and Booth.

00:19Like, they didn't speak.

00:21They never talked to each other.

00:23For this is, like, not new either.

00:25Like, for a really long time, they were never on the same page.

00:28But now, all of a sudden, this all comes to light because they both got chopped.

00:33So, now it's every man for themselves.

00:35So, apparently, obviously, Denver, the ownership group, et cetera, I guess they just had enough of all of it.

00:42And they said, let's clean them all out.

00:44Chop them out.

00:45Let's go.

00:45And then try to – this Adelman kid is going to now coach them for the rest of, of course, this week and then into the playoffs.

00:52Yeah, I'm not buying the whole that they're going to be invigorated and start winning because they got Adelman's kid coaching them.

01:01They obviously know who he is.

01:02He's an assistant.

01:03So, I'm sure they acknowledge him and, you know, maybe like him or deal with him or get along with him, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

01:17But it doesn't mean they're going to listen to him.

01:19They didn't listen to Malone and they turned on him, then they're not going to respect some assistant that's taken over.

01:28I don't buy that they're suddenly going to start finding themselves and winning a bunch of games.

01:33And I thought – and believe me, you know I like this team with Joker, Porter, Gordon, and Murray, and Brown.

01:43I think they're really good.

01:45And I think they're very dangerous and capable.

01:48But they've kind of peeled apart like a banana.

01:51They've just kind of – their whole end of the season here has been kind of a, you know, unnerving mess.

01:59They're yelling, screaming, fighting, fired a coach to GM.

02:02They've got all these problems.

02:03And now what?

02:04They're going to find God?

02:06Like, I don't buy that.

02:07I think they're in trouble.

02:09And I think this is a real bad look for them.

02:11No one has been fired this late in an NBA season.

02:15Listen to this.

02:17Since 1981.

02:201981.

02:22Christ.

02:23I wasn't even – I would like – honestly, I was in high school.

02:27I was in high school the last time they fired someone this late in an NBA season.

02:33I don't think it's a smart move.

02:35I think they'll – well, we'll see.

02:37Like, we'll see if I know anything.

02:39I don't buy that you can do this now and then succeed in the next two months.

02:45I don't buy it.

02:48I don't either, honestly.

02:49I think that this is the beginning of the end.

02:52That's right.

02:53To be quite honest with you, for this season.

02:55Now, when they get – go hire some big-time coach who wants to work with Joker in the offseason

03:00and then they instill some new way of life there in Denver, that's a different story.

03:06But this guy –

03:06Would you hire Mike Malone somewhere else in five minutes?

03:09I would hire him.

03:09He's going to have – he's going to – he might have a job.

03:12The season ends on Sunday.

03:14So, you're going to have some teams that miss the playoffs that are going to fire their coaches.

03:18But if I – I would bet there are teams that make the playoffs that if things don't go well,

03:24losing the first round, they would fire their coach for Michael Malone.

03:27So, if I'm Malone, I actually make sure that I – my agent, whoever, has got the feelers out there

03:33for some of these teams that are playoff teams and they say, hey, listen,

03:37if things don't go well for us here, we'd be interested in your guy.

03:41Because that's – Malone is going to have juice.

03:43Let me just say this as well, in terms of this business, the business of coaching in my opinion

03:53of NBA, NHL, pro football, Major League Baseball, even college football and basketball

04:01is a four- to five-year excursion in the day you're hired is the day you're fired.

04:07It does not matter who you are anymore in sports, what your name is, how much juice you have,

04:16how do you fire a guy that has won titles and that has been the coach of the year.

04:21He knows exactly what he's doing, but they still – they fire everyone in sports.

04:27It does not – so, the deal is this, is if you want to get into the business of coaching

04:32and professional or college sports, notice, you need to be all about the money

04:38because there is no loyalty.

04:40There is no such thing as, oh, I'm so honored to work for the family,

04:44the ownership family or the ownership group or the owner or the, you know,

04:50I got this job, oh, I'm working for the Celtics is the greatest.

04:54Guys, know this, you're getting fired in five years.

04:58It doesn't matter who you are unless you win multiple titles.

05:03Like, they want to fire Sullivan in Pittsburgh for the last two years, right,

05:07because they've won three Stanley Cups, but they haven't won it,

05:10and they've been losing left and right.

05:12I guarantee you, what, Peter Laviolette, they're going to whack him.

05:16They whacked your boy in Philly towards – it don't matter who you are.

05:22They're going to fire Tockett in Vancouver.

05:25He'll go to Philly, but they fire coaches now in sports, college and pro,

05:30every four and five years.

05:31You're fired.

05:32So do it for the money and don't like anyone and don't be loyal to anyone

05:37because they're going to screw you.

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