Nuggets Coach Malone and GM Calvin Booth FIRED

[UpAndComing]

Mike Malone on the Knicks would be kind of scary, not gonna lie

Dude is from Astoria Queens, he could make that team into serious contenders

 

[holidayinn21]

None of these AI images/videos are funny. Like, none of them. At all

 

[Piff Huxtable]

Bud got saved by KD's foot being on the line

low key Steve Nash being an awful coach and Joe Harris bricking wide open 3's were more crucial than KD's toe

 

[Reggie]

Malone will have plenty of options and could end up in a better situation long term. Memphis San Antonio and New Orleans could need a coach as soon as next season. Potentially teams like Minnesota New York Milwaukee etc. could have openings depending on how the playoffs go or if ownership thinks he is a better option.

 

[Flex Grossman]

Malone will have plenty of options and could end up in a better situation long term. Memphis San Antonio and New Orleans could need a coach as soon as next season. Potentially teams like Minnesota New York Milwaukee etc. could have openings depending on how the playoffs go or if ownership thinks he is a better option.

Pop loves Malone. I’d bet he ends up in San Antonio this offseason

 

[MikelArteta]

Kroenke told Jokic about the firings before they happened.

I mean arsenal had their biggest game in years but yet Kroenke was at the game yesterday
Can't lose jokic

But still jokic for poetl, Barnes and a first

 

[MikelArteta]

Malone will have plenty of options and could end up in a better situation long term. Memphis San Antonio and New Orleans could need a coach as soon as next season. Potentially teams like Minnesota New York Milwaukee etc. could have openings depending on how the playoffs go or if ownership thinks he is a better option.

I'd take Malone right now in Toronto if jokic doesn't ask to be traded as he's close to our coach

If not I'd fire our coach and hire Malone

 

[FaTaL]

None of these AI images/videos are funny. Like, none of them. At all

I find them frightening

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Malone will have plenty of options and could end up in a better situation long term. Memphis San Antonio and New Orleans could need a coach as soon as next season. Potentially teams like Minnesota New York Milwaukee etc. could have openings depending on how the playoffs go or if ownership thinks he is a better option.

I’d that really a better situation though than Denver? Memphis is debatable as well. Milwaukee definitely isn’t and going to end up in a worse situation than all of them when Giannis is traded.

 

[tjwettem]

i think the knicks are finished with thibs at the end of this year, barring a title run. I think Malone is their number 1

Malone will have plenty of options and could end up in a better situation long term. Memphis San Antonio and New Orleans could need a coach as soon as next season. Potentially teams like Minnesota New York Milwaukee etc. could have openings depending on how the playoffs go or if ownership thinks he is a better option.

 

[daemonova]

I mean arsenal had their biggest game in years but yet Kroenke was at the game yesterday
Can't lose jokic

But still jokic for poetl, Barnes and a first

Jokic said he knew before YOU knew so yeah he co signed

 

[CHICAGO]

YEA JOKIC GOT
THEM nikkaS UP OUTTA THERE



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[Reggie]

I’d that really a better situation though than Denver? Memphis is debatable as well. Milwaukee definitely isn’t and going to end up in a worse situation than all of them when Giannis is traded.

Could be potentially. Denver can easily tinker and become the favorites again. Or they could decide to trade Gordor or Porter and start a soft rebuild. New Orleans and Memphis still have plenty of talent. Just need some better health and direction.

 

[tremonthustler1]

i think the knicks are finished with thibs at the end of this year, barring a title run. I think Malone is their number 1

Malone and Thibs are very similar in terms of how they deal with young guys.

 

[FAH1223]

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/04/09/orlando-magic-denver-nuggets-michael-malone-firing-kentavious-caldwell-pope-kcp-nba-kia-center-taylor-jenkins-mike-brown-jamahl-mosley/

Much like most of the NBA world Tuesday afternoon, Magic guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope couldn’t believe what he’d just read.

After 10 years, which included the franchise’s first championship less than two seasons ago, the Nuggets fired coach Michael Malone.

“Shocking … Very surprising,” Caldwell-Pope, who was a part of Denver’s 2023 title-winning squad, said in the locker room before Orlando hosted Atlanta at Kia Center. “Especially for me, I didn’t think it would happen. But there’s been a lot going on over there. Who knows.

“Especially towards the end of the season, going into the playoffs, I’m just really surprised.”

Caldwell-Pope isn’t alone in questioning the timing.

The firing is tied for the latest coaching change in league history, according to ESPN Research, matching Hubie Brown in 1980-81. The Nuggets ended Tuesday fifth in the West, 15 games above .500 and on track to make the playoffs for the seventh straight season.

But Denver had gone 11-13 since the All-Star break and there was already a growing discontent between Malone and Nuggets GM Calvin Booth, who was also fired.

Former Magic assistant David Adelman, the Nuggets’ lead assistant, takes over for the remainder of the season.

But Malone’s dismissal also came just 11 days after the Grizzlies — another postseason-bound team in the West — let go of coach Taylor Jenkins. Both followed Sacramento firing coach Mike Brown in late December.

“It feels all too familiar that we’re saying that as of late,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said. “And I’ll preface this by saying I don’t know what’s going on in other organizations so it’s hard to speak on what happens there.

“But in situations like this where you look up and it’s like four of the last six coaches that were in the Finals are no longer with their respective teams … as a coach, you understand the job that we’ve signed up for, and that’s very apparent.

“We know what comes with the territory. It makes you look at yourself as a coach individually because you have to reflect and say, ‘Am I doing the things that I need to do every single day to continue to walk in this building and love the job? Am I enjoying the journey and the people that I’m on it with? Am I enjoying the organization that I’m with? Am I? Are we doing it the way that we’re supposed to be doing it?’ And that’s just self-reflection because you see that this happens in this industry.”

Mosley is in his fourth season as coach. He received a four-year extension last March that’s set to keep him in Orlando through 2027-28.

The team’s win total increased each season under Mosley but won’t this year. Battling key injuries throughout, the Magic are heading back to the postseason but will have to advance out of the Play-In Tournament first.

“It’s very important us as coaches just have to continue to look and do it the way that we understand is right by us and the organization and how we go about handling business and putting these guys in the best position to be successful, and after that let the chips fall where they may,” Mosley said. “But you can always look in the mirror and say that we’ve done it a way that you want to do it.”

Caldwell-Pope’s relationship with Malone runs deep.

Malone’s father, Brendan, who died in 2023, coached him, too.

“I’ve known for him a while,” Caldwell-Pope said of Michael Malone. “I had his father — may he rest in peace — in Detroit with me when I was rookie. So, just having that relationship with his father and then when I got [to Denver], it was genuine. It grew really quickly.

“For me, he’s a great coach. I like the style, everything that he did, the preparation that he had for us.”