{"id":38271,"date":"2025-04-08T19:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/nuggets-announce-shock-firing-of-malone-less-than-two-years-after-nba-title\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:32:03","slug":"nuggets-announce-shock-firing-of-malone-less-than-two-years-after-nba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/nuggets-announce-shock-firing-of-malone-less-than-two-years-after-nba-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets announce shock firing of Malone less than two years after NBA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Team say decision \u2018not taken lightly\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Malone was on run of eight straight winning seasons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Malone, who coached the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/denver-nuggets\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/jun\/12\/denver-nuggets-beat-miami-heat-nba-finals-game-5-first-championship\">NBA title in 2023<\/a> and has led the team to eight consecutive winning seasons, was fired on Tuesday in a stunning move that comes with less than a week in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Also out is general manager Calvin Booth, whose contract will not be renewed. The Nuggets said Malone\u2019s long-time assistant coach, David Adelman, will take charge for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/08\/nuggets-announce-shock-firing-of-malone-less-than-two-years-after-nba-title\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team say decision \u2018not taken lightly\u2019 Malone was on run of eight straight winning seasons Michael Malone, who coached the Denver Nuggets to the NBA title in 2023 and has led the team to eight consecutive winning seasons, was fired on Tuesday in a stunning move that comes with less than a week in the &#8230; <a title=\"Nuggets announce shock firing of Malone less than two years after NBA title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/nuggets-announce-shock-firing-of-malone-less-than-two-years-after-nba-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nuggets announce shock firing of Malone less than two years after NBA title\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}