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Denver Nuggets Fire Coach Mike Malone Amid Conflict
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4/9/2025
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The Denver Nuggets. What are we doing here? You look at the Nuggets. The tweet pops up yesterday.
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Sham Sharani, a breaking news. The Denver Nuggets have fired coach Mike Malone, sources tell ESPN.
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Then digging down a little bit deeper a few moments later, the general manager also fired
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from the Denver Nuggets. Typically this happens, Joe, postseason. Hey, we lost. Unacceptable. We
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gave you one more year. It didn't work out. Let's go. But sometimes teams try to find lightning in
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a bottle and fire their world championship head coach of just a few years ago to create a
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spark for the 2025 playoff run. Let's start here, Joe. You hear this news, your initial
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reactions. What were they?
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I was shocked. It really was. I could not believe of all the organizations. Again, what are we?
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Two seasons removed from the organization's first championship in the history, right, of
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their existence. And Malone was a big, big part of that. And then you start reading into where,
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man, all was not well behind the scenes between Malone and Booth. Booth wanted to, as far as the
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roster goes, wanted to center it around the youth, the guys that he drafted, right? But that's not who
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Mike Malone is. Mike Malone loves the veterans. He also, Malone, felt that, listen, we have a small
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window of opportunity to win a couple of these things. We're not blowing it up and starting to play
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rookie and sophomores and start using that. So he used guys like Russell Westbrook a lot this year,
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gave him a ton of minutes instead of Jalen Pickett, who was the second round pick a couple
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of years ago. Malone is not a guy that's going to invest a whole lot of time and effort into the
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younger guys. He's a veteran type of coach. Booth wanted it the other way. And that apparently bled
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into all other aspects of the organization. And the owner, well, the owner's just like, well,
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neither of you can get along. There's no point in having either of you here since you both have
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contracts coming up as well.
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