ESPN.com · Oct 5, 2023
Malone: If Lakers still worried about Nuggets, 'that's on them'
SAN DIEGO -- The Los Angeles Lakers might have the Nuggets on their mind this week but Denver coach Michael Malone said the defending NBA champions have nothing but respect for the Lakers and have turned the page from their Western Conference finals sweep of L.A.
Malone was asked Wednesday about how some of the Lakers talked about his team this week and how they have been motivated by trash talk from Malone and the Nuggets all summer.
"That was what, four months ago?" Malone said after practice at the Nuggets' training camp at University of California San Diego. "I can't speak for anybody in L.A. But if they're still worried about us, that's on them.