I would love to tell you what team president and governor Josh Kroenke thinks about the Nuggets' attendance tumbling to 32nd out of 32 teams in the NBA.
Or how he plans to clean up the mess left behind by the wrecking ball he set in motion. Or, in a January tradition so predictable you can almost guess the date, how the Nuggets are firing up the blame game again. Or — and did you see this? — how budding star Nikola Jokic, a 21-year-old prodigy promising enough they should build around him, had to climb over empty seats to retrieve a loose ball in the stands during a game
Tuesday night at Pepsi Center, there was no one sitting within 10 feet to toss it back.
This is what has happened: Connelly has identified the kind of bright, young talent that promises better basketball ahead. But the veteran leadership that Malone lamented has been checked out ever since it was told a No. 3 seed (for the Nuggets!) isn't good enough.
The veterans have been here to see accountability disappear. They're just falling in line.
To be clear, this isn't about firing Karl or the good ol' days. This isn't about the Kroenkes being cheap. Those are tired targets. This is about Josh taking the accountability card from the locker room and allowing his adorable American bulldogs to use it as a play toy. The Nuggets are nosediving into obscurity, both on the national level, where they have one remaining game deemed attractive enough to earn a TNT broadcast, March 13 against the Lakers; and along the Front Range, where on Tuesday the Pepsi Center security crew was told to expect around 6,500 fans "with a lot of comps."
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