Less than two years ago, Michael Malon was at the top of the American Professional League.
After leading Denver Nags To the first championship in the history of the concession in June 2023, it was presented at the championship as “Lakers Father”, a title that took over after the elimination of Los Angeles in the Western Conference Finals. Also, thousands of fans shouted, he told them that he was not satisfied. “We don’t want one [championship]Malon said. “We want two.”
The forward to Tuesday, with Nuggets in fourth place in the Western Conference and only three games in the normal season, the team took a horrific step, and shot Malone and General Manager Calvin Booth.
Malon was at the head of Nuggets for 10 years and was the best coach of the concession (510-394). Assistant coach David Adeleman will be the temporary coach. Booth, who was in an expired contract, has served as general manager since 2020.
Nags’s decision is surprising for many reasons. The most stringent among them? Time.
The nuggets of the competitors in the championship are considered a great behavior in such a critical turn is the lifting of the eyebrows. It is interesting that another competitor to the Western Conference did the same for a little more than a week, with Taylor Genkins, Memphis Gregs.
For nuggets, the question is, will this disrupt the team’s continuity? In the West, only two games, Lakers, are separated from the eighth seed Grizlies, which means that the nuggets are among the six teams that are at risk of falling into the championship.
Or, as the front office of Nuggets clearly hopes, will this team that lost four games in a row in the middle will move Murray beauty Five games were lost due to a knee string injury, which helps them change things?
“This decision was not taken lightly and was evaluated very carefully, and we only do so with the intent to give our group the best opportunity to compete for the American Professional League Championship 2025 and another title to Denver and our encouragement everywhere,” Josh Kronk, Vice Chairman of the Kroenke Sportment Board of Directors, said in a statement. “While the timing of this decision is unfortunate, as coach Malon helped build the basis of our program at the tournament now, it is a necessary step to allow us to compete at the highest level at the present time.”
It is well known that there is a dispute between Malone and Both, as it does not agree with Malone’s desire to re -signature Kentavium CALDWLLL-POPE And his preference is to have a profit approach, giving priority to the emphasized old warriors. CALDWELL-POPE, who was an important part of the Nuggets Championship, left at a free agency last summer, as he did Bruce Brown.
In this season, the fragments of injuries and the squad changes struggled and they are 20 in the defensive classification.
Malon recently called his team’s efforts after losing to Portland Trill Blazrez 12 on March 21, and urged his players to look at the mirror and pride in their minutes. He added that he was “embarrassed by that game and our approach.”
Nags also recently lost at home until the thirteenth seed San Antonio Spears On April 2.
But with jokic in a horse dual race with Gilgos Alexander tea For the MVP and Nuggets Award, which is preparing for the other separator operation after six games in a row in the post -season, Malone’s launch was completely unexpected.
Fear, with the way things went, would diversify the nuggets of these expectations this season for the second year in a row. In 2024, they lost to Minnesota Timberolves in the second round of the qualifiers in a series of seven games.
For a period of time from Malone with Nuggets, around the concession.
He supervised the rise of Jokic from his choice by Denver as the 41st selection in the 2014 draft to become MVP three times. She also stood beside the beauty of Murray after suffering from the ACL torn and missed the entire 2021-22 season. At that time, Murray was concerned about his circulation. Malon told him, “Hell no. You are ours.”
Murray went to 26.1 points in an average of 47.3 percent of the shooting, 5.7 rebounds and 7.1 decisive passes during their championship. Murray told Fox Sports at that time.
The shooting of Malon is ridiculous, given that it was one of the most vocal critics of how the coach’s seat became a periodic door, as he was at the head of a scapegoat for the team’s issues.
Three of the four coaches who won a championship were launched between 2020 and 2023, including Malon, Frank Vogel and Mike Bodholser. Since the beginning of the epidemic, 27 out of 30 teams from the American Professional League have changed coaches, with single exceptions to San Antonio (Greg Pubovic), Miami (Eric Spacestra) and Golden Station (Steve Care).
Less than four months ago, Malon did not hide his disgust in the Sacramento Kings’ decision to shoot Mike Brown, who was the unanimous winner of the coach of the year in 2023. The kings, who also fired Malon in 2014, were to the news to Brown by phone.
“No category, no balls.” Malon said in December.
Now, Malon at the recipient of the shocking news.
Just a short time ago, Malon was enjoying drinks and embraced by his players while standing on stage in front of thousands of loved fans.
But in the blink of an eye, it became part of a statistic that despises it.
Melissa Roalin is a writer in the American Professional League at Fox Sports. The league has previously covered the photographer, Los Angeles Times, Gulf News Group and San Antonio Frankly. Follow it on Twitter @Melissarin.
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