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DENVER – Michael Malone is the fourth-longest-tenured coach in the NBA, and he said the Nuggets’ patience with him is one reason why they are in the finals against the Miami Heat.
“The fact that I’m one of the top four longest-tenured coaches, that has a ton to do with where we are today,” said Malone, prior to Game 1 of the Nuggets’ first-ever finals game Thursday. “I couldn’t be more thankful for working for an ownership group that is not impatient and is not trying to find the next great thing … let this problem marinate into something special.”
Malone — with eight consecutive years coaching the Nuggets — trails Miami’s Erik Spoelstra, who in season 15 is the league’s second-longest-tenured coach. The longest is San Antonio’s Gregg Popovich and the third-longest is Golden State’s Steve Kerr . In the last week, two coaches who were fired by the teams they coached this season already have new jobs. Nick Nurse, who won a championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019, was announced as the 76ers’ new coach Thursday; Monty Williams, the 2022 NBA Coach of the Year in Phoenix, just landed a reported $78.5 million contract from the Detroit Pistons.
“I’ve got to hit him up, I need a loan,” Malone joked of Williams. “He got fired in Phoenix. OK, well, Detroit realized … here’s a guy that’s not only a great coach, more importantly, he’s going to be a great example for our team with a bunch of young players. So you know that that’s what you want. If it doesn’t work out in one place, you know that 29 other teams are watching to see things that could work here.
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