{"id":469314,"date":"2023-11-13T14:52:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469314"},"modified":"2023-11-13T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:52:39","slug":"malone-inks-contract-extension-with-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/malone-inks-contract-extension-with-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Malone inks contract extension with Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> manager Michael Malone has signed a deal extension that makes him 1 of the league\u2019s highest-paid coaches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ESPN Sources: The Denver Nuggets\u2019 Michael Malone \u2014 who led the franchise to the 2023 NBA championship \u2014 has agreed on a contract extension that\u2019ll make him one of the league\u2019s highest paid coaches. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/klyGsLSYKO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/klyGsLSYKO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1724094793939046596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Malone&#8217;s new contract comes after he led his organization to the 2023 NBA championship, the 1<sup>st<\/sup> in Nuggets history. Michael\u2019s long-standing partnership with the franchise\u2019s superstar and 2-time MVP, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> \u2013 has led to great success for Denver in the past years as the team seemed ready to compete for the title in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets boss who has led the team West Conference-leading 8-2 record to begin the new campaign \u2013 spent 8 years lifting the organization out of the lottery, into the postseason and, finally, to a National Basketball League championship. The Nuggets\u2019 16-4 run in the 2023 postseason was the NBA\u2019s most dominant since the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/golden-state-warriors\/\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Malone is the NBA\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup> longest-tenured manager in the league, behind only Gregg Popovich, Erik Spoelstra, and Steve Kerr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets manager Michael Malone has signed a deal extension that makes him 1 of the league\u2019s highest-paid coaches. ESPN Sources: The Denver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469315,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,19721,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17859,19722,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He became 1 of the highest-paid coaches in the NBA.","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\/469314"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469317,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469314\/revisions\/469317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469314"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469314"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}