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The ongoing "cold war" between Michael Malone and Calvin Booth became toxic for everyone within the Denver Nuggets. Even before both were fired on the eve of the playoffs, Josh Kroenke wanted to clean house at the All-Star break, sources said, but an eight-game winning streak spared Malone and Booth.

"Everybody in the organization was miserable," a team source said. "That's what Josh felt. It's a bad vibe. You can't operate like that. He felt that if he removed those two people, everybody could just focus on doing their job. Change needed to happen."

On Monday, Josh Kroenke talked it through with his father, Stan Kroenke, and Kevin Demoff, who has become a more influential voice in the organization since ascending to the role of president of team and media operations for Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, which also owns the Los Angeles Rams, Colorado Avalanche and Arsenal FC, a little over a year ago.

"There were certain trends that were very worrisome to me at certain points in time, but they would get masked by a few wins here and there," Kroenke said during an in-house interview released Tuesday afternoon. "In the world of professional sports, where winning and losing is your currency, winning can mask a lot of things."

Via Tim MacMahon, Ramona Shelburne/ESPN

Ideally the GM should be getting the coach players who fit the scheme and coach wants to play. But who plays is the coach's decision, the GM shouldn't be dictating who plays.

If the coach does nor play the players the GM selected, then the GM seems like a bad GM and he wants his work to be regarded as good.
I could understand both, although Denver's youngsters are not the real deal, to day it smoothly. Watson is a good player with only one gear (full speed) and the rest are more or less the same.
Hey, Malone is even playing Deandre, who is like a diplodocus is today's game...

Rebound Mound wrote:If the coach does nor play the players the GM selected, then the GM seems like a bad GM and he wants his work to be regarded as good.
I could understand both, although Denver's youngsters are not the real deal, to day it smoothly. Watson is a good player with only one gear (full speed) and the rest are more or less the same.
Hey, Malone is even playing Deandre, who is like a diplodocus is today's game...

Braun is nice

people really do have a goldfish memory when it comes to the Kroenke's

uconn83 wrote:people really do have a goldfish memory when it comes to the Kroenke's

How so? Elaborate on that for me

really? the cheapest of owners. All starts with the kcp contract