Speaker 1: Shopping news from a world of pro basketball today, the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets have fired Michael Malone after ten years on
Speaker 1: the sidelines and bringing Denver their first championship in nearly
Speaker 1: half a century. Our next guest might have some insight
Speaker 1: on this. Tony Jones, Happy Tuesday, sir?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: Uh wow? Right? Like Happy Tuesday? Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3: That was a great walk up song. Just just a.
Speaker 2: Lot going on, a lot going on, Tony.
Speaker 1: And I'm old enough to remember when you were good
Speaker 1: at your job in the NBA, you got to keep
Speaker 1: it and when you were a twenty five generational.
Speaker 2: Player, you wouldn't be traded.
Speaker 1: Luka, Doncic is a Laker, Taylor Jenkins is looking for employment.
Speaker 1: And Michael Malone after a decade of high level coaching
Speaker 1: and a guy who I like and respect a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, his dad, Brendan Malone, was an assistant for
Speaker 1: Jeff Van Gundy in New York and so we got
Speaker 1: to know the family, and of course Michael was back
Speaker 1: with the Knicks for a little bit as well. Help
Speaker 1: us understand this, Tony, like, why how did this go down?
Speaker 1: And what's your take on the way they went about
Speaker 1: their business?
Speaker 3: So I'm going to probably go against the grain a
Speaker 3: little bit, but I'm not surprised that this happened at all.
Speaker 3: I am surprised about the timing. I think the timing
Speaker 3: is is definitely the most shocking part of it. But
Speaker 3: I talked to a source yesterday for about an hour,
Speaker 3: and when I got off the phone with that source,
Speaker 3: I called Sam Amic, you know, my good friend, and
Speaker 3: and Kylie got the Athletic and the first thing I
Speaker 3: said when you picked up the phone was, yeah, the
Speaker 3: Nuggets they want to fire Michael Malone. And I'm surprised
Speaker 3: that they did it twenty four hours later, you know,
Speaker 3: but I'm not surprised that at at the firing at all.
Speaker 3: Things where things have been kind of come into a
Speaker 3: head for a while. This has kind of been brewing,
Speaker 3: and you know, and I think I'm surprised at the timing,
Speaker 3: and I'm surprised that everybody went. But this was the
Speaker 3: very definition of a power struggle. And Josh Kronki, the
Speaker 3: Nuggets' owners, just apparently said, both of you guys can
Speaker 3: lead the building at this point. And that's what happened.
Speaker 1: And for our listeners, when Tony says both of you guys.
Speaker 1: Calvin Booth is the general manager, and he was also
Speaker 1: informed that his contract will not be renewed. So they
Speaker 1: are getting rid of their head coach, Michael Malone and
Speaker 1: their general manager, Calvin Booth. Now I can understand getting
Speaker 1: rid of Calvin Booth. Like I have said, and I
Speaker 1: believe this to be true, that Denver has.
Speaker 2: Failed Nikola Jokic.
Speaker 1: They the Kronkys, are not an ownership group that wants
Speaker 1: to spend the way that Joe Lacup does or some
Speaker 1: of the other owners like a Steve Balmer. They do
Speaker 1: not want to be a luxury, tax paying team. They have,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the best player in this generation and
Speaker 1: a player that when he's done, will be among the
Speaker 1: best players ever to play. But I didn't view this
Speaker 1: as a coaching issue. I know they've lost four straight,
Speaker 1: but to me, Jamal Murray's hamstring is a bigger issue
Speaker 1: than Michael Malone's coaching. Jamal hasn't played in five games,
Speaker 1: and if you take okayc off the table, Denver's right
Speaker 1: there with everybody else and maybe a team that could
Speaker 1: challenge Oklahoma City because we've seen them do it before.
Speaker 1: So your point about the power struggle between Calvin Booth
Speaker 1: and Michael Malone. Well taken, but they're both gone. Why
Speaker 1: not just get rid of Calvin Booth and keep Michael
Speaker 1: Malone around?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Can you Is this a locker room issue? Is it
Speaker 1: a player issue? Like what exactly led them to doing
Speaker 1: this to their head?
Speaker 2: Coach? I understand the GM. I don't get the coaching thing.
Speaker 3: Well, because Michael Malone lost the locker room. And oh
Speaker 3: all right, And when I say he lost the locker room,
Speaker 3: that includes Nikolay Jokis. He lost Nikolay jokins and and
Speaker 3: and he lost the locker room as a whole. And
Speaker 3: uh so you know that's one of the reasons why
Speaker 3: you know, coach Malone also got fired as well. I
Speaker 3: have you know, some things brewing that you know, uh
Speaker 3: that will be written pretty soon in the athletic uh
Speaker 3: in terms of specifics about you know, how Malone lost
Speaker 3: the locker room. But I can tell you from a
Speaker 3: broad sense to my sources, that Malone lost the locker room.
Speaker 3: And you know, there were several things in terms of
Speaker 3: in terms of Calvin, there are several things that went
Speaker 3: into his firing as well, you know, one of which
Speaker 3: was you know, the contract h to Jamal Murray because
Speaker 3: of the their ability factor. And it wasn't that the
Speaker 3: contract to Murray, it was that the contract was was
Speaker 3: really expensive and it was really player friendly, a little
Speaker 3: bit too player friendly for the cronkys taste in that,
Speaker 3: you know, along with you know, a couple of the missteps,
Speaker 3: like given the technology a four year contract when we're
Speaker 3: not even sure he's an NBA player, you know, spending
Speaker 3: three second round picks to get off of to get
Speaker 3: off of Reggie Jackson, you know, player options to ruffle
Speaker 3: westbrook In, Dario Sarach, you know, things like that that
Speaker 3: you know, have hamstring the Nuggets. I mean, if you
Speaker 3: look at what the Nuggets have going forward, you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's pretty bleak in terms of and in terms
Speaker 3: in terms of assets. Right, Like they have one tradable
Speaker 3: first round pick, which is twenty thirty one. They're twenty
Speaker 3: twenty seven and twenty twenty nine first round picks, and
Speaker 3: this is going to be a big shock to everybody here.
Speaker 3: They belong to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Because the Oklahoma
Speaker 3: City Thunder, everything belongs to the Oklahoma So you know,
Speaker 3: there's no assets, there's no money. You know, it's gonna
Speaker 3: take whoever comes in and and gets the GM job.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's not really a cupboard to work with.
Speaker 3: And part of this, I think is on the Crockys.
Speaker 3: It is, and you know, they made it really certain,
Speaker 3: they made it really certain we do not want to
Speaker 3: go into the second option. I mean, we do not
Speaker 3: want to go into the second aprint. So Calvin Booth
Speaker 3: was in a large part working with what he had,
Speaker 3: which is what led to where we see the roster
Speaker 3: right now. Because like let's take for example, the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 3: The Boston Celtics. But like we can go into the
Speaker 3: to we can go into the the tax, we can
Speaker 3: go into the resign, you know, Jason Tatum re sign,
Speaker 3: Jalen Brown extend, you know, offer an extension to Drew
Speaker 3: Holliday and the people around them, and we'll we'll pay
Speaker 3: the tacks. We're fine. We just want to put we
Speaker 3: want to put the best product in the floor as possible.
Speaker 3: And I think that Calvin Booth has been hamstrung in that.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, Calvin Booth made mistakes like
Speaker 3: the Zeke Nology contract. That's a legitimate mistake, it's untradeable,
Speaker 3: you know, and it's four years and you know, the
Speaker 3: the the Reddy Jackson trade, you know, because he because
Speaker 3: he had a player option. You know, that's three second
Speaker 3: round picks. Those are three. Those are three picks where
Speaker 3: you can either use it for a trade or you can,
Speaker 3: you know, try to go and get you can try
Speaker 3: to go and get rotation players. You can. So I
Speaker 3: think Calvin Booth hit on the margins in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: two and twenty twenty three in order to win Denver
Speaker 3: on the championship, to win Denver a championship because he
Speaker 3: went and got Bruce Brown, he went and got Jeff Green.
Speaker 3: Those are hits on the margin. But he also lost
Speaker 3: Contavious Carwell Pope the free agency. He also gave leek
Speaker 3: Nage that contract, so he also missed on the margins.
Speaker 3: Ever since they lost the championship. So it's been a
Speaker 3: really mixed back.
Speaker 2: There three games left for Denver.
Speaker 1: Last thing here, you know, because as I referenced what
Speaker 1: I tried to do with all my NBA guests and
Speaker 1: have all year. Once it became obvious that Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: was playing at a historic level, the conversation has to
Speaker 1: become okay, Like, who keeps Mark dagnalled up at night?
Speaker 1: Who are the teams that he worries about? I still
Speaker 1: put Denver in that category because they have that dude.
Speaker 1: They have a guy that we've seen do it before,
Speaker 1: and no one ever does it by themselves. Michael didn't,
Speaker 1: Kobe didn't, Lebron didn't. But Jokic is as close to
Speaker 1: anybody that we've seen carrying a team to championships in
Speaker 1: playoff runs. So what do you think best case scenario
Speaker 1: is for Denver as the playoffs are only three games away?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I still think they invest case scenario
Speaker 3: is a championship. Like you said, they have Nacola Jokic.
Speaker 3: When you have that guy, you're gonna have the best
Speaker 3: player in every series and you're gonna have a punch
Speaker 3: of chance. But you know, one of the things that
Speaker 3: Josh Conky said publicly today was that he wants to
Speaker 3: see the joy back and there are reasons for this,
Speaker 3: but this team is not playing with joy and this
Speaker 3: team is not playing with energy, And you know, I
Speaker 3: think and that's part of the reason why Malone no
Speaker 3: longer has a job. And you know, I know I
Speaker 3: can't I can't really go in the specifics, but you know,
Speaker 3: there are some some things that have been at play internally.
Speaker 3: You know that of course this you know, so you know,
Speaker 3: the hope is that you know, we start they start
Speaker 3: with you know, one thing, right, come out tomorrow night,
Speaker 3: play with energy. They lose the sacramental lamorrow night, there's
Speaker 3: a real chance that they're going to fall into the
Speaker 3: playing the playing. You know, this is a team that
Speaker 3: was second and third in the Western Conference for much
Speaker 3: of the second half of the season, and you know,
Speaker 3: now we're talking about, you know, a one game scenario
Speaker 3: to Sacramento, and if that doesn't work out for them,
Speaker 3: you know, they're you know, there's a real real chance
Speaker 3: that they're playing on Tuesday next week. So you know,
Speaker 3: I think I think the first thing, you know, in
Speaker 3: a macro sense, in a micro sense, is to come
Speaker 3: out on Wednesday and play with energy and play with
Speaker 3: force against Sacramento and then just kind of take it
Speaker 3: from there. You know. But the Nuggets that at their peak,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is still you know, if they get
Speaker 3: Jamal Murray back healthy, of course, this is still one
Speaker 3: of the best starting fives in the league, one of
Speaker 3: the most efficient starting fives in the league. You have
Speaker 3: Yokis playing at an insane level. The guy's gonna average
Speaker 3: a thirty point triple double this season. This is truly
Speaker 3: one of the best, you know seasons anybody has had
Speaker 3: an NBA history offensively, you know. So there's still you know,
Speaker 3: a puncher's chance to win any series that they're in.
Speaker 3: I was in Oklahoma City, you know, three weeks or
Speaker 3: a month ago or whatever it was. I mean, it
Speaker 3: all kind of goes together, you know where they caused
Speaker 3: the Thunder real issues and they beat the Thunder on
Speaker 3: their home floor because the Thunder could not figure out
Speaker 3: a way to deal with NICOLEA. Jokis. So you know
Speaker 3: he's going He's an ultimate miss match. He's the ultimate
Speaker 3: superstar in this league that we have in our league today.
Speaker 3: You know. So if you have that guy on the floor,
Speaker 3: you have a chance to win any series that you
Speaker 3: can play that you're playing.
Speaker 1: All right, Moving off the nugget stuff, let's bounce around
Speaker 1: with some local stories. It was announced earlier today that
Speaker 1: Jegor Demon is going to leave BYU and he's going
Speaker 1: to start his pro basketball career. Uh So, when you
Speaker 1: look at a lot of the mocks. He's still a
Speaker 1: lottery pick. Some have him as a top ten, some
Speaker 1: of them have like mid lottery. He's very young, he's
Speaker 1: very raw, So anybody that will take a flyer on
Speaker 1: him is hoping that he learns how to shoot it consistently.
Speaker 1: Some of the decision making stuff improves, and he responds
Speaker 1: to force and physicality better than he did at BYU.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to like from a scouting perspective, just
Speaker 1: simply how big and long he is and how creative
Speaker 1: he can be with some of the distribution. But now
Speaker 1: that we know it's official, Dollon Hall's in the transfer
Speaker 1: port transfer portal by you need to point card, what
Speaker 1: are you making the news today that Yegor Demin is
Speaker 1: leaving Provo.
Speaker 3: I think he had to because he's going to be
Speaker 3: a first round pick. And you know, you you know,
Speaker 3: people talk about, well this Cooper flag going to go
Speaker 3: back to the Duke. Of course he's not going to
Speaker 3: go back to Duke. And people say, oh, well, you
Speaker 3: know in the agent nil, you can recruit that money. No,
Speaker 3: you can't. You don't go into the draft, you know
Speaker 3: for you know season one or season two. Uh, you
Speaker 3: don't go in the draft at eighteen for season one
Speaker 3: and a season two. You want to go into the draft
Speaker 3: at eighteen. So by the time you're twenty three, you're
Speaker 3: on a second contract and you're making one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: And then by the time you're twenty eight, you're on
Speaker 3: a third contract and you make another one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3: And then by the time you're thirty three, you do
Speaker 3: the same thing, and then guess what you're You know,
Speaker 3: you've made a half a billion dollars over the course
Speaker 3: of your career. You know, so that you start your clock,
Speaker 3: the better for your career, the better off you'll be.
Speaker 3: And if you're going to be a first round pick,
Speaker 3: and like you said, Jego is going to be a
Speaker 3: first round pick because there just aren't many chumbo size
Speaker 3: six foot nine playmakers that are available. And you know,
Speaker 3: as you look at Josh Getty, right, and you look
Speaker 3: at how raw he was coming out, look at him
Speaker 3: now and look at how he developed, and look at
Speaker 3: how well he's playing for the Chicago Bulls, and that's
Speaker 3: where you see what Yegor Demon can be. Like his
Speaker 3: his art type, his arc type is literally playing for
Speaker 3: the Chicago bulls right now. So you know, Yegor comes
Speaker 3: into the league, he hits the weight room, he falls
Speaker 3: in love with the weight room, he falls in love
Speaker 3: with the process. Then you know, by the time he's
Speaker 3: twenty two to twenty three, twenty four years old, you
Speaker 3: really have something than there.
Speaker 1: So with Dallan Hall entering the transfer portal, Kevin Young
Speaker 1: needs a point guard. Or maybe they run it back
Speaker 1: with the Dawson Baker kid because right now, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a j A j.
Speaker 2: Debon said technically is a wing.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can run their offense through him because he
Speaker 1: is that skilled. Then the Xavion Stanton kid or they're
Speaker 1: getting from Vegas, I believe, is a center.
Speaker 2: What do they do with that league guard spot? Any thoughts?
Speaker 3: You can try to talk Dollan back into the fold,
Speaker 3: which you know, no no intel from me there, but
Speaker 3: I would think that it might be a little bit
Speaker 3: easier to talk him back into the fold now that
Speaker 3: you know he would no doubt be a starter. And
Speaker 3: you know, let's put it this way, Jegor is a
Speaker 3: lot more talented than Dollan, Like he's a better player,
Speaker 3: but Dallan is a better fit with a Javanca in
Speaker 3: my opinion than Jegor is because Jaegor, for him to
Speaker 3: be effective, he needs the ball in his hands. I
Speaker 3: don't think Dollan needs the ball in his hands as
Speaker 3: much to be effective. And what you what I'm getting
Speaker 3: at here, is that what you want if your b
Speaker 3: YU is you want the ball in aj Devance's hands
Speaker 3: or you want the ball in richie' saunders hands as
Speaker 3: much as humanly possible next year, Like that is, you know,
Speaker 3: immediately Richie Thunders and aj Devancer are immediately one of
Speaker 3: the best duos in college basketball. And you know, aj
Speaker 3: Devanca is a playmaking wing. He's a playmaking whatever if
Speaker 3: he's a shooting guard or a small forward, he's a
Speaker 3: playmaking wing. And I think Dallan can can can play
Speaker 3: off of both of those guys. Uh add side to
Speaker 3: the position. I mean he obviously have side for the
Speaker 3: position at defense for the position. Uh and you know,
Speaker 3: just kind of be a connector because I think Dollan's
Speaker 3: more of a connecting type point guard, Like you don't
Speaker 3: really want him, you know, being your dominant ball handler,
Speaker 3: but as a connector, as a guy who's who's you know,
Speaker 3: making secondary players off the dribble. Like you really want
Speaker 3: him uh in that role as well, and I think
Speaker 3: that he can thrive in that role.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So on the Utah basketball side of things, you know,
Speaker 1: it still is a little bit quiet as far as
Speaker 1: you know, Alex continuing to fill out his staff. We
Speaker 1: don't really know what the rest of the staff is
Speaker 1: going to look like. Alex hopped on with Sean yesterday
Speaker 1: and had some interesting things to say about, you know,
Speaker 1: the type of staff he's looking for. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be as big as some of the other, you know,
Speaker 1: the other staffs in college basketball. So we're still a
Speaker 1: waiting word on you know, an Andre Miller type.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The transfer portal continues to bring news. Mike shrav Jamps
Speaker 1: now officially in the transfer portal, Kano Dawes is back
Speaker 1: to play for aj coming up next year. Jake Wallen
Speaker 1: is in the transfer portal. In addition to some other pieces,
Speaker 1: mir A little found a landing spot.
Speaker 2: So we're still waiting to.
Speaker 1: Kind of learn exactly what Utah basketball is going to
Speaker 1: look like next year. You know, you were good enough
Speaker 1: to kind of talk talk to us about Raphael Chilius,
Speaker 1: the guy that you know and you played with back
Speaker 1: in the day and apparently this fairly Dickinson transfer. Terrence
Speaker 1: Brown has a direct relationship with coach Chilius and he
Speaker 1: was one of the top ten scorers in college basketball
Speaker 1: last year twenty one points, six boards, three point two assists.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the Great Northeast Conference that you're familiar
Speaker 1: with where Fairleigh Dickinson, you know, obviously is located. Any
Speaker 1: insight on this transfer that AJ was able to grab.
Speaker 1: According to on three, he's a four star transfer with
Speaker 1: a composite ranking of ninety three point two out of
Speaker 1: one hundred. So we have two pieces of the puzzle,
Speaker 1: now Kano Dawes and now Terrence Brown in sight. As
Speaker 1: far as what type of player Terrence is.
Speaker 3: Well, because I'm a basketball sicko, I have watched Terrence
Speaker 3: Brown play. You know. My question for you know, my
Speaker 3: question is how is he going to adjust the big
Speaker 3: twelve physicality. But he's explosive off the dribble. He can
Speaker 3: shoot the ball. He can score the ball. He can
Speaker 3: score the ball and in multiple ways. Uh. He can
Speaker 3: score it at three levels. He's obviously proficient from three. Uh.
Speaker 3: He can get into the lane, uh and get off
Speaker 3: the floater. He can get all the way to the
Speaker 3: basket off the dribble. You know, it's it's going to
Speaker 3: be interesting, uh from size from a side standpoint, you
Speaker 3: know how he adjusts to you know, the physicality and
Speaker 3: the athleticism of the big twelve, you know, but he's
Speaker 3: a good a good addition. And what you want is
Speaker 3: somebody dynamic off the dribble. And what you want is
Speaker 3: somebody who can create most importantly basketball advantages. And you know,
Speaker 3: at least in the Northeast Conference, there was no better
Speaker 3: player in that conference than Terres Brown. I can creating
Speaker 3: our basketball advantage off the dribble.
Speaker 1: So we kind of await word as far as what
Speaker 1: the staff and the rest of the roster will look like.
Speaker 1: But let's end with a little Utah jazz, Tony. We
Speaker 1: haven't talked to a lot of jazz with you lately
Speaker 1: because if we're honest, there's just not a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about. Everyone knows what time it is. They have
Speaker 1: three wins since the All Star break. They're one and
Speaker 1: nineteen in their last twenty. We know what they're doing,
Speaker 1: we know what they're trying to do. But what I'll
Speaker 1: ask you today that Ivan Ashtian a while is with
Speaker 1: these grit with the grip of young players, and with
Speaker 1: the young players, I will remove Walker from the equation
Speaker 1: because I think we all can agree that Walker has
Speaker 1: played himself in the future plans of this organization. But
Speaker 1: I want, I just want to kick the tires with
Speaker 1: you on this group of young players. And we'll remove
Speaker 1: Taylor Hendricks because of course that he's hurt. But Isaiah Callier,
Speaker 1: Kyle Philipowski, of course, you know, will include Keyante in
Speaker 1: the mix, Cody Williams in the mix, right censub on
Speaker 1: the mix of these first and second year players, who
Speaker 1: do you feel has played their way to at least
Speaker 1: consideration to be around here long term, to be a
Speaker 1: piece of the puzzle when the Jazz are actually interested,
Speaker 1: interesting and serious about winning again.
Speaker 3: I would probably say Kyle Philipowski is the most likely
Speaker 3: because he's the most unique. Uh he's you know, six
Speaker 3: eleven seven foot Uh he you know, he obviously shoot
Speaker 3: the ball from three. It's funny because, uh, well, you know,
Speaker 3: some of the conversations with the Jazz two years ago,
Speaker 3: they were like, we're gonna bring Kyle. This was after
Speaker 3: Kyle Filoski's freshman or a dude we're gonna bring Cousselowski
Speaker 3: and we're going to bring him in for a workout.
Speaker 3: We're definitely considering him with our you know, our initial
Speaker 3: first round pick and that year was number nine, and
Speaker 3: that's the pick that that became you know, Taylor Hendrix.
Speaker 3: And I was like, you guys are crazy, Like dude stinks,
Speaker 3: Like you know, I didn't like him at Duke, and
Speaker 3: now that I've seen him, you know a little bit
Speaker 3: more up close. I mean, they were absolutely right. Like
Speaker 3: he's he's kind of a mismatch offensively, U. He's you know,
Speaker 3: so much tougher than I thought he was when he
Speaker 3: was at Duke. He's a lot more athletic than I
Speaker 3: thought he was when he was at Duke. You can
Speaker 3: see the development from you know, when he was drafted
Speaker 3: to now and you know, I think this guy has
Speaker 3: a chance to one day be an offensive I don't
Speaker 3: know about offensive engine because those guys are like twenty
Speaker 3: five points to night, but he's you know, I think
Speaker 3: he's got a chance to be a pretty significant offensive player, uh,
Speaker 3: in this in this league. Now, defenses is another story.
Speaker 3: You know, he can't really defend and he's got to
Speaker 3: get a lot better at that. But you know, he's
Speaker 3: like really uh, kind of a walking mismatch. Like you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's too big and strong and quick for fours. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's too quick for five. You know, he can space
Speaker 3: you out, he can go off the drubble, he's got
Speaker 3: counter moves. He's really crafty and cerebral. He's very tough,
Speaker 3: and he's got a lot more athletic pops than then.
Speaker 3: You know, you you give him credit for it looks
Speaker 3: like a choir boy, but he's definitely uh, he's definitely
Speaker 3: a really tough kid. He's what I would imagine and
Speaker 3: I hate to bring this up. I don't want to
Speaker 3: be blasphemous, but he's what I today league, and you know,
Speaker 3: and I think that he's he's been really really good
Speaker 3: for the Jazz in his rookie year, and I think
Speaker 3: he's got a chance to be here for for a
Speaker 3: long time.
Speaker 1: All right, Tony, I know you're busy. We'll set you loose.
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. I appreciate the time.
Speaker 3: Okay, no problem, appreciate you.
Speaker 1: My guy, Tony Jones covers well the NBA for the
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Speaker 1: shocking firing of Michael Malone with only three games left
Speaker 1: in the season and Denver is the four seed.
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