{"id":438096,"date":"2025-04-15T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=438096"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:23:16","slug":"josh-kroenke-neither-malone-nor-booth-deserved-it-but-we-had-to-move-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/josh-kroenke-neither-malone-nor-booth-deserved-it-but-we-had-to-move-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Kroenke: \u201cNeither Malone nor Booth deserved it, but we had to move on\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1737\"><strong data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1256\">Josh Kroenke<\/strong>, vice chairman of the <strong data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1297\">Denver Nuggets<\/strong>, broke his silence after firing coach <strong data-start=\"1336\" data-end=\"1354\">Michael Malone<\/strong> and GM <strong data-start=\"1362\" data-end=\"1378\">Calvin Booth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1737\">He admitted delaying the decision twice before pulling the plug due to rising internal tensions: \u201cThe eight-game win streak masked something deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1737\">Despite leading Denver to its first title, Malone and Booth\u2019s clashes on roster decisions forced the organization\u2019s hand. <strong data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1669\">David Adelman<\/strong> is now interim coach, with <strong data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1711\">Ben Tenzer<\/strong> as GM for the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuggets VP explains why firing the team\u2019s coach and GM was necessary despite past success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":386897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-438096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/Denver-Nuggets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438096"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=438096"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=438096"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=438096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}