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What the Denver Nuggets Firings Say About the Chicago Bulls’ Priorities

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April 9, 2025
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The NBA is the soap opera that never stops.
A mid-day Shams Charania notification set the NBA world ablaze as the Denver Nuggets, just 666 days since the organization's only championship in team history, fired head coach Mike Malone and GM Calvin Booth.
At 47-32, the Nuggets are hanging onto home-court advantage in the first round of the Playoffs by a hair. The Nuggets are a very good team that has battled through extended injury absences and the loss of a key starter, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, to Free Agency. Still, they're the fourth seed in a crowded Western Conference.
Booth took over in July 2020 as the successor to Tim Connelly. Malone was around much longer. The fourth longest tenured...

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