Michael Malone will always wonder what might have happened in Sacramento if he hadn’t been fired midway through his second season as head coach of the Kings, but he no longer bothers to wonder why.
Malone has moved on. He now has another gifted young big man to work with and is thriving in his fourth season with the Denver Nuggets, who were leading the Western Conference going into Thursday night’s game against the Kings at Golden 1 Center.
Malone seemed completely at ease and very much at peace with the past as he moved through the hallway outside the visitor’s locker room before his team’s morning shoot-around.