DENVER -- Nikola Jokic was blunt after the Denver Nuggets fired coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth with just three games left to go in the regular season, saying the organization was clearly looking for change.
The Nuggets had just lost four in a row, the season was slipping away and there was very little time left to turn things back in the right direction before the playoffs.
An early postseason exit looked inevitable with the way the Nuggets were going. A wasted season of Jokic's prime.
"If we don't make the changes, there's no way we're even in a Game 7," a Nuggets executive told ESPN.