SAN DIEGO — The chatter in El Segundo this week evidently hasn’t traveled down Interstate 5 to Michael Malone’s ears in San Diego.
The ninth-year Nuggets coach claimed Wednesday he was unaware that the Lakers, practicing two hours north, have been identifying unspecified trash talk from Denver as bulletin board material for the coming season. Malone also said he doesn’t think the recent talk make Nuggets vs. Lakers a rivalry at this point.
“There was just so much of that (trash talk) going on, it was like, ‘All right, we get it, y’all won,'” Lakers center Anthony Davis told Spectrum SportsNet this week.