SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Calvin Booth was done with Michael Malone.
It was Monday afternoon in Denver, and the Nuggets general manager had reached his breaking point with the franchise’s longtime coach, whose team was on a four-game slide. The locker room was a mess, with team and league sources indicating that the franchise’s most important players, including three-time league MVP Nikola Jokić, had grown frustrated and fatigued by Malone’s fiery ways.
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The strained relationship between Booth and Malone, who had been at odds for most of their previous five years together, was making matters even worse for everyone underneath them. Jokić’s brilliance had been dimmed by these dynamics for far too
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