Zach and NBA writer Matt Moore react to the shocking NBA news that the Nuggets have fired head coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Two days in and we're already doing an emergency podcast because in another event, the second in, I don't know, 10 days where the timing is the biggest surprise more than the substance, the Denver Nuggets, two years after winning a championship, One year after making the conference semifinals and losing in seven to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
And five days before the end of the regular season have fired Michael Malone, who had been their coach for a decade, and decided also not to retain Calvin Booth, the general manager. Everybody is out. All the higher-ups are out. And I mentioned...
The timing is the main source of the surprise because, as our guest knows as well as anyone, the tension between the coaching staff and the front office had been an open secret around the league for, I don't know, two years. I had mentioned it very openly on one of the last Low Post podcasts I did at my previous employer. It had spilled over into every part of the organization.
I don't think it was necessarily like this –
horrible horrible hatred whatever it was just it was just tension about young players veterans directions who controlled what part of the organization but it bled into lots of different parts of it and you could see the nuggets in the middle of the western conference in danger of falling into the play-in if if the end of this season and particularly one critical head-to-head game it's memphis doesn't go their way
Five and nine in their last 14 games. Jamal Murray's health, uncertain. And just – I mentioned in the very first episode of the Zach Lowe Show, just one of those years where it just doesn't feel like things are ever going to lock into place at the same time, which is what you need. You need everything locked into place to do what they did two years ago and just –
It's been one thing, and then that thing gets fixed, and then it's another thing, and then this player pops a little bit, and then that same player regresses. This player gets hurt. That player gets healthy. It's just never quite meshed all together. But this, the timing of this, is absolutely monumentally shocking to me.
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