BREAKING: Nuggets hire David Adelman as next head coach
After just 17 games as interim coach David Adelman was named the next coach of the Denver Nuggets
Just days after the Denver Nuggets were eliminated from the NBA playoffs, the team promoted their interim coach to a full time position.
Coach David Adelman was hired as the next head coach of Nuggets after coaching the team to back-to-back Game 7 appearances.
Adelman took the interim job after Denver fired head coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth with three games remaining in the season. He coached the remainder of the regular season, earning the No. 4 seed in the western conference, and led the team to round two of the playoffs before their Game 7 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
“I think that the way the group really rallied around [Adelman]… was fantastic to see,” Nuggets president Josh Kronke said in the team’s press conference Thursday. “We’re really excited about him, both what he’s shown in the last six weeks and then having a full summer, full training camp… to get things under his belt before we go back at it again next year.”
In 17 games as the interim coach Adelman received endorsement from Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter Jr., but has been part of the organization since 2017-2018. The son of Hall of Fame coach Rick Adelman, it has been a long time in the making for the now Nuggets head coach.