Malone Fired

[SLAB]

BREAKING: The Denver Nuggets have fired coach Michael Malone, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/bZoKRx6kgt

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 8, 2025

 

[New Era]

Get on the phone, Vivek

 

[SLAB]

Bring him home!

 

[fansinceday1]

The nuggets fired Malone?!?
WTH?

 

[iowamcnabb]

wow!

 

[Tetsujin]

No balls no class or whatever the **** it was he said

 

[The_Jamal]

What the ****???

 

[Tetsujin]

Was not expecting the Kings to inexplicably have the most competent coach firing of the season in their pocket given the media bluster over the lack of press conferences and what not but here we are.

 

[Tetsujin]

They do know that they’re playing the Kings and that pretty much meant a guaranteed Mike Malone spite victory, don’t they?

 

[Tetsujin]

Full clean out: The Denver Nuggets are also firing general manager Calvin Booth, sources tell ESPN. Michael Malone and Booth both out today. pic.twitter.com/FvqOAFyOKy

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 8, 2025

And they’re dumping Booth?!

 

[Tetsujin]

Lavine and all our picks for Joker. Make it happen, Monte.

 

[The_Jamal]

Get on the phone, Vivek

Nah, **** Malone, tbh. I get we did him dirty, but that dude's held a decade long grudge at this point.

Also, just extremely overrated. If he doesn't walk into an eventual top 10 player of all-time, he doesn't have near the success he's had.

 

[Tetsujin]

Dave Adelman named their interim coach. Good for him but this is the worst possible circumstances for his head coaching debut to arrive in.

 

[PacMan]

Somebody should ask him if they fired him with class or not

 

[pdxKingsFan]

No class, no balls.

Calvin Booth fired too.

 

[SLAB]

Nah, **** Malone, tbh. I get we did him dirty, but that dude's held a decade long grudge at this point.

Also, just extremely overrated. If he doesn't walk into an eventual top 10 player of all-time, he doesn't have near the success he's had.

Man, dude was starting to maybe win a little and build culture Demarcus and scrubs. I’m not going to call him overrated because he signed onto a job with Joker.

 

[Tetsujin]

congrats to Mike Malone on his stint next season as the one-off head coach of the burning Phoenix Suns!

 

[The_Jamal]

Man, dude was starting to maybe win a little and build culture Demarcus and scrubs. I’m not going to call him overrated because he signed onto a job with Joker.

I think he's a good coach for sure. I don't consider him even close to the Spo/Pop tier of elite coaches though. He's a good coach that was gifted one of the best offensive players we've ever seen.

 

[Sluggah]

People really have lost their minds.

 

[Tetsujin]

This might be even more stupid than when the Sacramento Kings fired Michael Malone and that is an amazingly high bar to clear

— Aaron Bruski (@aaronbruski) April 8, 2025

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Hopefully Malone can spend the next decade of his career grudging with Denver.

Watch him coach San Antonio.

 

[Tetsujin]

This is like when your kids get in a fight and you can’t really tell whose fault it is so they both get a timeout. https://t.co/tlOdH2eA73

— S. Dolan (@SteveThunderfan) April 8, 2025

 

[Tetsujin]

Hopefully Malone can spend the next decade of his career grudging with Denver.

Watch him coach San Antonio.

For better or worse, it seems like San Antonio is happy with Mitch Johnson until/if Pop recovers enough to coach again (big ask for an octogenarian)

 

[iowamcnabb]

Hopefully Malone can spend the next decade of his career grudging with Denver.

Watch him coach San Antonio.

I’m guessing Jenkins is the front runner for that Spurs job but yeh it might come down to him or Malone

 

[SLAB]

I think he's a good coach for sure. I don't consider him even close to the Spo/Pop tier of elite coaches though. He's a good coach that was gifted one of the best offensive players we've ever seen.

I won’t put him all the way up there either. Probably in a tier that lives between good and The Elite.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Absolutely nuts. Booth and Malone never liked each other, rarely spoke, and talked behind each other's backs. With the team struggling on the court, Nuggets ownership decided to fire both. Insane. https://t.co/BUVS7grQWq

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) April 8, 2025

For those scoring at home it looks more Joerger/Williams than Malone 1.0.

 

[iowamcnabb]

For better or worse, it seems like San Antonio is happy with Mitch Johnson until/if Pop recovers enough to coach again (big ask for an octogenarian)

i thought that too earlier, players were heaping praise on him but it seems things have changed some

 

[Tetsujin]

RUSSELL WESTBROOK REALLY ENDED MIKE MALONE’S CAREER 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/ewOUPD5Qm3

— BricksCenter (@BricksCenter) April 8, 2025

Mike Brown and Mike Malone both lost their jobs after essentially the same exact play lmfao

 

[Tetsujin]

Absolutely nuts. Booth and Malone never liked each other, rarely spoke, and talked behind each other's backs. With the team struggling on the court, Nuggets ownership decided to fire both. Insane. https://t.co/BUVS7grQWq

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) April 8, 2025

For those scoring at home it looks more Joerger/Williams than Malone 1.0.

This is the second GM that Mike Malone has had issues with to the point of dysfunction for those keeping track at home.

 

[Tetsujin]

Not Matt George making up another imaginary narrative in his head for some reason again

Any Kings fan doing victory laps about Michael Malone being fired because of the comments he's made about the Kings organization (not Sacramento) need to take a breath.

Dude was treated terribly by the Kings. And he's held onto that. But he's never said anything bad about the…

— Matt George (@MattGeorgeSAC) April 8, 2025