Four random but hopefully relevant thoughts from covering the Nuggets on the road this week in California.
1. Haters, fakers, etc.: Perhaps the most fascinating moment of this week’s road trip had nothing to do with the Nuggets. Doug Christie was 10 games into his tenure as the full-time head coach of the Kings when he entered his pregame news conference, gave an impassioned three-minute speech directed at the “haters” and “fakers,” then walked out without taking questions.
I won’t bore you with the full transcript. But the implication was that Christie was responding to local media speculation about tanking this season, in addition to other generally bad press swirling around the Kings.