Nearly two full seasons into a drastic and unforeseen demise, the Denver Nuggets have decided to hold head coach Brian Shaw accountable for all their misgivings.
That includes any mistakes their front office made.
As first told to The Denver Post's Christopher Dempsey and later confirmed by Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski, the Nuggets fired Shaw on Tuesday with the team sitting 19 games under .500, miles outside the Western Conference's playoff race.
Although there is never any one reason why an NBA team dispatches its head coach, the timing here is telling. There is no measurable incentive to firing Shaw now, almost three-quarters of the way through his second season at the helm. To make a change this big, this late, the situation must be dire.
For the Nuggets, the situation is exactly that. They own one of the league's 10 worst records since hiring Shaw and have devolved into a two-way disaster that barely resembles the 57-win outfit from 2012-13.
But such nosedives are never one-person efforts. Shaw is not alone in any wrongdoing. As ESPN Los Angeles' Ramona Shelburne suggests, ...
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