WHAT?!? The 4th-Seeded Denver Nuggets Just Fired HC Michael Malone?!?! | The Rich Eisen Show

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1. The nba is trying to get LeBron another championship by making sure Malone isn’t their to get in his way

2. on the day i wear my nuggets shirt 😯

3. HIRE: MARK JACKSON AS YOUR HEAD COACH. BELIEVE ME

4. This is beyond ridiculous. Not only was Malone a great coach. He took them to a championship just a couple of years ago. It will be interesting to see the player reaction and ownership gets what they deserve.

5. 1:30 "The NBA is becoming the NHL". Yep ! Crazy people in those leagues.

6. The only way this makes sense is if they were grossly insubordinate or involved in something illegal.

7. During the last game, Braun crashed into Jokic for the final minutes of the game during a play, which led to the loss (which also showed the state of the coaching impact).

8. Rich I beg you to just use the word fired, not blown out 💀

9. GM thankgod is gone. Sorry for Michael Malone

10. TERRIBLE DECISION! BOO!!! Michael is an excellent coach. They were missing players for the last four games. SHAME!!!

11. WTF, worst time to do this! Insane! If I were the interim coach, I will sit down with Jokic and ask him how he wants me to coach the team AND I WILL COACH EXACTLY THE WAY HE WANTS ME TO. I will completely depend on Jokic.

12. If you aren’t a nuggets fan I get it but don’t let these fake nuggets fans convince you this was a bad move. Malone and booth hated each other this was gonna happen regardless. At least now you have a chance to salvage the season. And now they have a real chance to fix the team in the offseason and not waste the greatest player in franchise history.

13. This was bound to happen when the Broncos couldn't beat basketball teams for crying out loud.

14. Mike Malone. Post Malone. Home Alone.
    Lakers in 5.

15. WTF? This ain't about basketball. Someone pissed off the owner, made a demand he didnt like, failed to comply with an order … something.

16. I seriously wish the kings would bring him back to Sacramento. New ownership and getting rid of him was one of the biggest mistakes the kings made (on a very long list of dumb decisions). The nuggets are dumb af.

17. Good decision by the club owner – they deserved to be fired. The coach and manager will have time to reflect on how they destroyed the Denver Nuggets. Jamal M. and MPJ and their contracts sealed the fate of the nuggets. Zeke N. is a great winger, but he is very weak in the center…….. i Michael Jordan was very bad at center. The coach and manager of the Denver Nuggets chased many good players, so that MPJ – Jamal M. would play without competition …… they shot 0-9 for three – and not a word of criticism THE BENCH REBELLED. It's a bad decision to have an assistant coach lead the team – the Denver Nuggets need a coach with authority

18. The owners need to realize that MPJ and Murray quitting after being paid isnt the fault of the coach. The GM should have been fired 2 months ago.

19. There has to be something behind the scenes. He must have demanded more power behind the scenes or wanted a huge increase in pay that ownership wasn't going to give. This decision doesn't make much sense on the surface and the Kroenkes are actually pretty patient when it comes to coaches.

20. I don't understand this at all.

21. Great…he has responsibility for lose and lose ..

22. I think what happened is the Nuggets had a chance to get jimmy butler and the GM didnt make the move and malone has clearly lost Murray and MPJ.

23. NBA owners don’t know basketball

24. This is just ad bad as Dallas trading Luka

25. 😮TRUM0 BEHAVIOR

26. The Nuggets aren’t going to do better than Malone. Insane.

27. Ok, so they obviously gave up on the title run this year. Question is what trigered this and what is the plan.

28. He refused to play the Draft Picks. The owners said no more.

29. No doubt in my mind this decision doesn't happen at this point in season for a playoff team without the support and push from players. I doubt Jokic cares because he doesn't care about anything but the rest of the team HAD to have made some noise to get this done. As a Rockets fan I love it 😂

30. Nah. /

31. 666 days after winning the title. Kobe’s 81 point game was on his 666th career game. Wake up everyone, These are all rituals.

32. Yeah, let's see if Nikola Jokic takes the HEAT for getting coach Malone fired the way other star players, like LeBron does?????

33. Just say you didn't get along worth the coach because he disagreed with you. Malone will go to a better situation.

34. Malone deserved better. Should've given him the post season.

35. 666 days after the Nuggets won the NBA Title… Praise Jesus

36. I think maybe the thought is we got the best player in the league scoring sixty points triple doubles and losing plus obviously some background noise to go with it and said hell get them out of here But I'm gonna assume they have to have someone in mind and a framework in place for replacing mike

37. Not a mystery. Jamal Murray went on a player's strike. Basically quit and indicated he'd sit out the rest of the season and the playoffs as long as Malone was coach. MPJ sat for 3 games, then made clear to the media he had no injury. He returned, but he was going through the motions on the court. Murray and MPJ are soft and lack heart. Murray's perennially out of shape, won't play D, and cares only about his own stat-line. Dude is the definition of a low-character guy. Put on a Michael Jordan team and Jordan would have punched him in the face.

38. Tariffs. Lol

39. There are no words.

40. NBA owners are gambling. No other reason to do this.

41. this is the culture in America now. just do something stupid and pretend you had a plan

42. These franchises are waving the white flag before the playoffs start..bad for business

43. Jokic is going to get traded next season

44. Kroenke wants a low priced Adelman to off set the bad Murray contract.

45. Mark Daigneault about to get fired because they’re the #1 seed. That’s the logic by these owners.

46. They'd probably get backlash if they fired the black guy and said let's get rid of the white one too

47. Didn’t Denver learn anything from the Bucks?

48. Anyone who thinks the NBA is not rigged at this point is a lunatic, I am not a conspiracy theorist, but they are clearing out these teams to try to help the Lakers win. The Luka trade – it’s WWE just in WWE they care about competing to have the most entertaining matches for the FANS – NBA couldn’t care less about basketball fans – just a cult of LePED worship and propaganda.

49. NBA coaches get fired for winning.