{"id":437777,"date":"2023-06-13T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T10:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437777"},"modified":"2023-06-13T02:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T06:40:22","slug":"michael-malone-promises-nuggets-will-not-settle-for-one-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/michael-malone-promises-nuggets-will-not-settle-for-one-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Malone promises Nuggets &#8216;will not settle for one title&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> head coach Michael Malone said he and his players want to build a dynasty in Colorado and not settle for one title.<\/p>\n<p>Denver became NBA champion for the first time in franchise history after beating Miami Heat 94:89 and closing the series 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got news for everybody &#8211; we&#8217;re not going to settle for one title. We want more. Pat Riley said something years ago that I had hanging over my desk when I was working in Sacramento. It was about the evolution of the NBA, how you start from nobody, you become a rookie, then a winner, then a title contender, then a champion. The last step is from being a champion to being a dynasty,&#8221; Malone said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nuggets coach Michael Malone is picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a>&#8216;s brothers as the team celebrates its NBA title (?: AP)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MileHighBasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MileHighBasketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IefiG3xLPd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IefiG3xLPd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 9NEWS Sports Denver (@9NEWSSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9NEWSSports\/status\/1668463332335001601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;I think in those 16 playoff wins, we showed what we&#8217;re capable of on the biggest stage in the world,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone said he and his players want to build a dynasty in Colorado and not settle for one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":437778,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,19721],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17859,19722],"acf":{"announce":"\"We want to build a dynasty in Colorado\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437777"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437777"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}