Michael Malone FIRED… Why Now?!

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Tony Reali and the national panel discuss Michael Malone's firing, the Florida Gators, and the new salary cap in college sports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Golden Florida Gator cutting down the neck.
0:05.0	Five seconds to go.
0:07.0	Five seconds to sharp, off of the key, lost the triple.
0:10.0	We have been asking questions like, did this team
0:13.0	winner, this team's low it for 23 years?
0:15.0	The Florida winner or Houston lose it right there.
0:18.0	No shots taken in the final minute by the Cougars. How that could happen.
0:23.4	And news of the day how this could happen. The Denver Nuggets, and it's a stunter firing head coach Michael Malone a week before the playoffs.
0:33.6	Mm.
0:36.5	Answer for this, Woody. We need an answer for this, Woody.
0:37.6	We need an answer for this.
0:39.3	We need an answer for this.
0:41.9	Find yourself, Woody.
0:45.7	Florida Gators, national champions.
0:48.0	We'll get to that in a second.
0:49.8	We start with the shocking news of the afternoon from Denver today.
0:54.0	The Nuggets firing head coach
0:55.8	Michael Malone and firing general manager Calvin Booth. Did anybody see this coming? There's
1:03.7	three games left in the regular season. Denver's going to the playoffs. They're the four seed.
1:08.5	You got to think they have hopes and certainly could make a case. They could recapture the form of a championship team with Jokens, an MVP level, and then of course with the championship winning.
1:20.6	But that is not the case anymore with today's release of Michael Malone. The winningest coach in franchise history, only coached for the
1:28.1	championship. Nuggets owner Josh Franke today in statement saying it's unfortunate timing,
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