Mike Malone

Will Barton is going to be out of action for some time. After being carted off the court during the Denver Nuggets’ win over the Phoenix Suns, the swingman had an MRI and was diagnosed with a strained groin, per The Athletic’s Shams Charania: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1054126220923801602] Indefinite timetables are always scary-sounding. This one is no [...]

After missing the past six games with a left ankle sprain, Nikola Jokic was medially cleared to rejoin the Denver Nuggets for their Wednesday night bout with the Boston Celtics. But that wasn’t good enough for Mike Malone. As Denver’s head honcho told reporters following the 124-118 loss, he remains concerned that Jokic isn’t mentally [...]

Denver Nuggets head coach Mike Malone was not thrilled after his team’s loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday. Indeed, the Nuggets were playing without Nikola Jokic and Paul Millsap, their two best players. But the 123-114 letdown drops them to 3-9 on the road, a record he doesn’t deem worthy of a playoff [...]

You know what the Denver Nuggets’ bottom-eight offense could really use? A healthy Gary Harris. Too bad the Nuggets won’t be getting a healthy Harris for around four weeks, per The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey: [tweet https://twitter.com/chrisadempsey/status/798615857731485696] Harris already missed time this season with a partially torn groin muscle. His shooting percentages and scoring averages [...]

Things got weird in the Denver Nuggets’ loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night. Late in the game, Nuggets head coach Mike Malone exchanged verbal jabs with both Blake Griffin and his own rookie, Emmanuel Mudiay. The two incidents kind-of-sort-of happened simultaneously. First, Malone received a technical for getting into it with Griffin [...]

Danilo Gallinari is ever the optimist. Even though he’s spent the last two seasons battling injuries, missing the 2013-14 campaign entirely, Gallinari isn’t down. Not that he should be. He played well during FIBA Eurobasket, and the Denver Nuggets signed him to a two-year extension worth around $34 million over the offseason. Tack on his [...]

The Orlando Magic have found their new head coach in Scott Skiles. The Chicago Bulls have found their Tom Thibodeau replacement in Fred Hoiberg. The New Orleans Pelicans have found their next head honcho in Alvin Gentry. It’s now the Denver Nuggets’ turn. Names are being churned out of Denver’s rumor mill like crazy as [...]

When the Sacramento Kings decided to give Mike Malone the shaft, almost everyone was surprised. Including Malone himself. Sure, the Kings were under .500 at the time and in the midst of a 2-7 stretch, but they had shown progress under Malone, beginning 2014-15 at 9-5, their best start in nearly 10 years. Malone’s dismissal [...]

The Sacramento Kings have surprisingly fired their current head coach—Mike Malone—and assistant coach Tyrone Corbin will be appointed as their interim head coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. This surely comes as a shock for most people. The Kings are actually having a pretty solid start this season (11-13), especially, when you compare [...]

Phil Jackson won’t be coaching the Los Angeles Clippers because, well, that would be creepy. The Clippers agreed to part ways with head coach Vinny Del Negro—whose contract was up—on Tuesday, paving the way for them to hire anyone they wanted—so long as Donald Sterling was willing to actually pay them and Chris Paul approved. [...]