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2016-17 Breakout Sophomores
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Michael Malone was very nearly never here, in the NBA sense.
"I could be working for the treasury department doing detail for the President and getting shot at, or I could be a coach in the NBA," the Denver Nuggets boss told CBS Sports this summer.
It's true. When Malone was younger, he was working at Foot Locker in the day, and working with an office cleaning crew from midnight to 4 a.m., while he worked at Oakland University as an assistant under Greg Kampe.