NPDS - Nuggets fire Michael Malone and GM Calvin Booth with 3 games left!?; Luka gets ejected for what?; Tragedy in the Dominican Republic (Episode 1253)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘no pleasure’ as in fired as in Denver as in Nuggets as in Mike Malone as in winning. The Denver Nuggets decided to fire the head coach and GM with 3 games left in the regular season! WHAT!? The Nuggets president came out and released a statement and then went on TV and made a different statement! (16:01) Luka got ejected for trash talking a fan in the Lakers game last night. The ref took it personal. Why is this always happening? Why can’t refs get together and say “hey, we made a mistake here?” And now Luka returns to Dallas. (22:20) Tragedy struck in the Dominican Republic yesterday. At least 70 people died when the roof collapsed at a nightclub. Former MLB pitcher Octavio Dotel died. Former MLB player Tony Blanco died. Nelson Cruz’s sister died. Just a horrible, horrible tragedy. (34:35) Review: October 8. (41:30) NPPOD. (44:30) Skenes Day in Pittsburgh was not great. He got shelled. And no fans were there. Under 9,000! (49:22) Caitlin Clark Effect is real. We have seen it. It continues. Are the residual effects happening? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	No pleasure. No pleasure. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Wednesday, April 9th, 2025.
0:23.5	And it is with no pleasure that we come to you live at 8 a.m.
0:28.9	On the nothing personal with David Samson YouTube channel on the Draft King's Network.
0:33.7	You know I'm kidding.
0:34.8	It's with total pleasure.
0:37.4	Love when people say that. It is with no pleasure
0:40.8	that I fire you. The Denver Nuggets brought a second generation incarnation of a Wojbom
0:51.0	through Shams with three games left in the regular season that they were firing
0:57.4	their coach Mike Malone.
0:59.9	The Denver Nuggets also fired their general manager with three games left in the season.
1:06.8	The Denver Nuggets are 47 and 32.
1:09.9	The Denver Nuggets are only a few years removed from a championship.
1:14.6	The Denver Nuggets announced through their vice chairman, Josh Cronkey, the son of owner Stan Cronkey,
1:22.6	that it is, wait for it, and this is a quote, a four quote a four paragraph statement when you do something that has
1:31.9	never been done except once with a crappy team who fired the legendary hall of famer
1:37.1	Atlanta Hawks fired cuby brown 45 years ago, a statement.
1:45.3	It is with no pleasure that we announced that we have relieved Michael Malone of his head coaching duties effective immediately.
1:54.2	I always like that in the statement.
1:55.8	You have to say effective immediately because otherwise, we may think it's effective the day after yesterday, possibly two
2:03.0	games from now if they lose one of the next two. But when you put effective immediately, it means
2:08.4	right then and there. Very important. No pleasure. All of the press releases I've done firing
2:15.9	people, all of the times that I've let people go for
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