Nuggets’ Michael Malone: “Scary that COVID is not going away”

Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone diagrams plays before the first quarter against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.Amid reports that the NBA and NBA Players Association are in talks to increase COVID-19 testing among players, Nuggets coach Michael Malone said Wednesday that it’s important for his team to stay vigilant.

And he termed the recent outbreak of the Omicron variant as “scary.”

“We have a lot more guys who are vaccinated now than we did at the start of the year, which is a positive,” Malone said prior to Denver’s game against Minnesota at Ball Arena. “We are trying to be smart, as you look around the NBA landscape, to do as many things as possible to try to…