The Denver Nuggets have fired head coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth, the team announced Tuesday. It's a pair of shocking dismissals in the final week of the NBA regular season.

He pointed to the roster as his reason: “We have more star power — you know, Nikola Jokic on the Nuggets, but we have [Nathan] MacKinnon, [Cale] Makar… we have a bunch of people on that team.

Denver was also exceptionally smart about trapping Gilgeous-Alexander down the sidelines in their zone coverages. Shai likes to post-up and isolate on an empty side of the floor, and the Nuggets ...