It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired

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It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#1 » by Texas Chuck » Tue Apr 8, 2025 5:30 pm

Denver fired Malone. David Adelman moving up.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#2 » by ReggiesKnicks » Tue Apr 8, 2025 5:33 pm

Denver tells Memphis "Hold my Beer"
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#3 » by parsnips33 » Tue Apr 8, 2025 5:39 pm

GM fired too. Wow
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Post#4 » by schaffy » Tue Apr 8, 2025 5:44 pm

ReggiesKnicks wrote:Denver tells Memphis "Hold my Beer"


"You guys think firing your head coach and an assistant before the playoffs is something? Amateurs. Try doing head coach and GM and get back to us"
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#5 » by Godaddycurse » Tue Apr 8, 2025 5:45 pm

maybe they want to pull a dallas and reset/trade Jokic..? even then the timing is hella weird
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#6 » by Snakebites » Tue Apr 8, 2025 5:48 pm

Bizarre.

Salary cap rules made it harder for them to keep their championship group together- the team had been getting worse on the margins for a couple of years now.

Teams are gonna have to adapt.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#7 » by K_chile22 » Tue Apr 8, 2025 5:49 pm

Booth won a ring with Connolly's roster and has been bad since deservedly canned. Malone is nuts. He's a very good coach. Memphis and Denver almost assuredly will not do as well with their next one
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Post#8 » by kobe_vs_jordan » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:03 pm

K_chile22 wrote:Booth won a ring with Connolly's roster and has been bad since deservedly canned. Malone is nuts. He's a very good coach. Memphis and Denver almost assuredly will not do as well with their next one

Malone a very good coach because joker won him a title ? Seem like short memory. Malone was on his last leg the year nuggets won. Joker extended his career imo.
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Post#9 » by parsnips33 » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:04 pm

Is the thinking that this fires up the players going into the last week/play ins/playoffs? I just don't get the logic of the timing at all
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Post#10 » by gswhoops » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:04 pm

kobe_vs_jordan wrote:
K_chile22 wrote:Booth won a ring with Connolly's roster and has been bad since deservedly canned. Malone is nuts. He's a very good coach. Memphis and Denver almost assuredly will not do as well with their next one

Malone a very good coach because joker won him a title ? Seem like short memory. Malone was on his last leg the year nuggets won. Joker extended his career imo.

I mean, I think it's clear from the entirety of his tenure that he's a well-above-replacement-level head coach. Whoever they bring in next will almost certainly be worse.
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Post#11 » by Devilanche » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:04 pm

schaffy wrote:
ReggiesKnicks wrote:Denver tells Memphis "Hold my Beer"


"You guys think firing your head coach and an assistant before the playoffs is something? Amateurs. Try doing head coach and GM and get back to us"

What’s the one up to this . Firing coach , GM and change ownership all on the same week?
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#12 » by Godaddycurse » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:17 pm

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schaffy wrote:
ReggiesKnicks wrote:Denver tells Memphis "Hold my Beer"


"You guys think firing your head coach and an assistant before the playoffs is something? Amateurs. Try doing head coach and GM and get back to us"

What’s the one up to this . Firing coach , GM and change ownership all on the same week?


Trade your mvp candidate, fire coach and GM
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Post#13 » by K_chile22 » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:19 pm

kobe_vs_jordan wrote:
K_chile22 wrote:Booth won a ring with Connolly's roster and has been bad since deservedly canned. Malone is nuts. He's a very good coach. Memphis and Denver almost assuredly will not do as well with their next one

Malone a very good coach because joker won him a title ? Seem like short memory. Malone was on his last leg the year nuggets won. Joker extended his career imo.
They beat their over under total every single season he was there until this season where the gm killed his roster.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#14 » by gswhoops » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:48 pm

The only logical explanation is that Jokic demanded a trade to Golden State to play with Steph/Jimmy and Booth/Malone said no.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#15 » by Mavrelous » Tue Apr 8, 2025 6:52 pm

Loved Malone but players clearly tuned him out, glad to see Addleman get a chance, always liked his father.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#16 » by giberish » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:05 pm

GM makes sense - though presumably could have waited until a playoff loss (GM can't really do anything now). Had been very poor keeping a roster around Jokic.

Coach is more awkward timing. Malone's been pretty good but has admittedly failed to play some guys who ended up decent elsewhere - that could have helped their depth issues.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#17 » by kobe_vs_jordan » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:20 pm

gswhoops wrote:
kobe_vs_jordan wrote:
K_chile22 wrote:Booth won a ring with Connolly's roster and has been bad since deservedly canned. Malone is nuts. He's a very good coach. Memphis and Denver almost assuredly will not do as well with their next one

Malone a very good coach because joker won him a title ? Seem like short memory. Malone was on his last leg the year nuggets won. Joker extended his career imo.

I mean, I think it's clear from the entirety of his tenure that he's a well-above-replacement-level head coach. Whoever they bring in next will almost certainly be worse.

Nuggets had him on the hot season 22 and 23. Nuggets front office don’t believe he is well above average.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#18 » by kobe_vs_jordan » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:23 pm

K_chile22 wrote:
kobe_vs_jordan wrote:
K_chile22 wrote:Booth won a ring with Connolly's roster and has been bad since deservedly canned. Malone is nuts. He's a very good coach. Memphis and Denver almost assuredly will not do as well with their next one

Malone a very good coach because joker won him a title ? Seem like short memory. Malone was on his last leg the year nuggets won. Joker extended his career imo.
They beat their over under total every single season he was there until this season where the gm killed his roster.


They could do that with Darvin Ham as long as joker on the roster lol some exaggeration but don’t see Mike as the coach that takes a good team to a great team.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#19 » by Domejandro » Tue Apr 8, 2025 7:53 pm

David Adelman is a great coach, and Calvin Booth deserved to be fired.

Mike Malone absolutely deserved better than the disaster of a roster that this franchise offered him.
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Re: It's Memphis again: Shams says Malone is fired 

Post#20 » by Norm2953 » Tue Apr 8, 2025 8:06 pm

Blazer fans would love to see Malone in Portland

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