{"id":53640,"date":"2025-05-24T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/53640\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:15:17","slug":"david-adelman-officially-named-denver-nuggets-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/53640\/","title":{"rendered":"David Adelman officially named Denver Nuggets head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NBA Finals predictions: Are the Thunder and Knicks locks for the NBA Finals?<\/p>\n

The For The Hoops crew make their picks for the NBA Finals. The Thunder vs. Knicks seem to be a popular pick, but are we counting the Timberwolves and Pacers out too early?<\/p>\n

David Adelman<\/a> is officially dropping interim from his title.<\/p>\n

Adelman has been named the permanent head coach of the Denver Nuggets<\/a> on Thursday, officially succeeding Michael Malone, who was fired <\/a>just days ahead of the NBA playoffs<\/a> in April. Adelman led the Nuggets through the remainder of the regular season, where they went 3-0, and a playoff series win over Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers in seven games.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Nuggets were one win shy of advancing to the Western Conference Finals, ultimately losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the conference semifinals in seven games<\/a>. Despite the playoff exit, Nuggets president and governor\u00a0Josh Kroenke said he was impressed with Adelman’s leadership and the way the team responded to him.<\/p>\n

“We are going to be moving forward with David Adelman as our head coach… for next season and beyond,” Kroenke announced<\/a> during his end-of-season media availability. “I think the way that the group really rallied around him, and not only a different voice, but a different style of communication was fantastic to see. We are really excited about him, both what he\u2019s shown over the last six weeks and then having a full summer, a full training camp and a full year to get things under his belt before we go back at it again this time next year.”<\/p>\n

OPINION: Nuggets should hire David Adelman now. He proved himself with win against Clippers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kroenke wasn’t the only one singing Adelman’s praises.<\/p>\n

Following the Nuggets playoff exit on May 18, Aaron Gordon said<\/a> Adelman “was excellent for us and I hope that he’s here next year.” Nikola Jokic said<\/a> their coach “made us believe something and we played good.” Jamal Murray said<\/a> Adelman “did a great job, considering everything.” Michael Porter Jr. said<\/a> he hopes Adelman “gets the job.” Christian Braun added<\/a> “the guys really like him.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Kroenke added, “One thing I am very comfortable with, and hopefully our fan base has seen, is how the players came together and really rallied around our coaches and our coaching staff.”<\/p>\n

Adelman previously served as Malone’s assistant since 2017 before he was named the Nuggets’ interim head coach on April 8 after Malone was let go after the Nuggets suffered four consecutive losses.<\/p>\n

Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth was also fired alongside Malone. Ben Tenzer\u00a0has served as the interim general manager, but Kroenke said he “wants to take my time a little more” on naming a permanent GM.<\/p>\n

The firings come just two seasons after Malone \u2014 who leaves the franchise as its winningest coach \u2014 led the Nuggets to their first NBA championship.<\/p>\n

Contributing: Jeff Zillgitt, Lorenzo Reyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA Finals predictions: Are the Thunder and Knicks locks for the NBA Finals? The For The Hoops crew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[299,7,311,559,301,187,3943,106,850,529,851,298,135,3580,562,70,85,6,67,302,310,179,61,134,1937,132,66,83,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-53640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-denver","13":"tag-denver-nuggets","14":"tag-denvernuggets","15":"tag-jr","16":"tag-kawhi","17":"tag-kawhi-leonard","18":"tag-leonard","19":"tag-los","20":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","21":"tag-michael","22":"tag-michael-porter-jr","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-nba","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-nuggets","28":"tag-oklahoma","29":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-positive","32":"tag-porter","33":"tag-positive","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-news","36":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}