With the recent news of the Denver Nuggets firing head coach Brian Shaw. It’s time to remember the time that Shaw had.
Alright with those 2 seconds over. It’s time to play the coaching spinning wheel! Who will be the next coach of the mediocre Nuggets! We have had early reports of 5 possible coaches to succeed Brian Shaw. The frontrunner out of the 5? Some say that the word “defense” isn’t in his vocabulary. And if you ask him to say “defense”, he stutters and shouts “def… Fragmentation!”. That’s right! According to Sam Amick of USA TODAY Sports. Mike D’Antoni is the early frontrunner for the Denver job.
As for Shaw’s eventual replacement, a person with knowledge of Mike D’Antoni’s thinking told USA TODAY Sports that he would have a strong interest in returning to the place where he started his NBA coaching career. Before rising to relevance with the Phoenix Suns during their “Seven Seconds or Less” era and later coaching the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers, D’Antoni’s Nuggets went 14-36 in the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the private nature of the process.
The other four according to Amick are current NBA analyst and former Golden State head coach Mark Jackson, current assistant coach for the Warriors Alvin Gentry, Chicago Bulls’ assistant coach Adrian Griffin and according to ESPN’s Marc Stein, ESPN analyst Avery Johnson.
Former Nuggets coach Mike D’Antoni and former Nuggets guard Avery Johnson likely to be contenders for post. Alvin Gentry another strong name
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) March 3, 2015
