Once again, Nikola Jokic has proved a savant, reading the tea leaves long before a situation hardly anyone across the NBA saw coming came to fruition.

The Denver Nuggets shocked the NBA sports world Tuesday in a team shakeup that saw the ouster of head coach Michael Malone and the team's general manager, Calvin Booth.

The Nuggets, currently sitting at No. 4 in the West with a 47-32 record, announced Malone's firing on Tuesday after 10 seasons and a championship with the team. Malone led the Nuggets to a 471-327 regular-season record,

Also out: general manager Calvin Booth, whose contract will not be renewed. The Nuggets said David Adelman will become the coach for the remainder of the season. Josh Kroenke, the vice chairman of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment,

Michael Malone, who coached the Denver Nuggets to the NBA title in 2023 and has led the team to eight consecutive winning seasons, was fired Tuesday in a stunning move

Phoenix Suns guard Grayson Allen knows Mike Budenholzer ultimately is being judged by the end results, but he isn’t so sure that’s how his coach should be evaluated. “It's hard to say,” Allen said after Tuesday’s morning shootaround when asked what he thinks about how Budenholzer has done this season.

Joe Mazzulla was asked about the firing of Taylor Jenkins by the Memphis Grizzlies and he plainly said being dismissed is part of the coaching experience. Being fired so late in the season, especially for a playoff-bound team,

Ultimately, the Pickett-Westbrook debate between Booth and Malone was just one of a multitude of problems. And now Denver clearly felt the situation in town deteriorated so much t