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Denver Nuggets Coach Michael Malone Calls Out NBA For Considering Shortening Games

Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone is hoping the NBA doesn’t turn into a complete circus after it teased cutting down quarters from 12 to 10 minutes.
Malone, 53, swatted away the idea that the NBA is flirting with reducing minutes as league commissioner Adam Silver explores ways to fix the league he seemingly broke. When the great David Stern handed off the NBA to Silver, it wasn’t this big of a mess.
Head coach Michael Malone of the Denver Nuggets. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
“I hope we don’t go to 10-minute quarters,” Malone said on Wednesday before taking on the Knicks that evening, which Denver went on to lose, 122-112.
READ: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Teases Idea Of Potentially Shortening Games
Malone criticized the NBA for being tempted to change the norms in new but uninspiring ways, hoping to fix the player-friendly league.
“I hope we don’t go to the four-point line,” Malone added. “I hope we don’t become Barnum & Bailey where we’re just having to do whatever we have to do to keep viewership.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. (Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images)
The championship coach hopes the league can regain its rhythm after recent years of crumbling into a tournament of three-point shooting attempts.
READ: Adam Silver Recognizes The 3-Point Shooting Issue In The NBA, But Says League Won’t Move Line Back
Days of well-orchestrated offenses seem like a thing of the past in the NBA. Why try when you can heave a three-point shot!
“Because there is a history and greatness to this game,” Malone attested. “And a purity to this game and I hope we can find a way to stay true to that.”
The Nuggets stand fourth in the West with a 28-19 record.
Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau also reacted to the recent changes teased by Adam Silver.
“I’m probably more traditional, so I’d hate to see that,” Thibodeau said. “That’s just a personal [opinion]. I haven’t really thought about it just because of the records and things of that nature. I think we have a great game. I think what people want to see is competition.”

Head Coach Tom Thibodeau of the New York Knicks. (Photo by Evan Bernstein/Getty Images)
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Man shot and wounded by Denver police in Paco Sánchez Park

DENVER — A man was shot and wounded by a police officer in Paco Sánchez Park after ShotSpotter detected gunfire late Monday.
The shots were detected in the area of west 13th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard around 10:40 p.m. according to Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas.
Responding officers located shell casings.
“So they began searching the area for suspects that may have been responsible for that gunfire that led them to Paco Sánchez Park, a park that has been known previously for shots being fired in the area,” Thomas said.
Officers found four men who were in the park and asked them to stop.
“They began to flee. At least one of them dropped a handgun. Another one produced a handgun, causing one of the officers to become in fear. That officer fired a number of shots, striking that individual,” Thomas said.
The wounded man was taken to Denver Health Medical where he was listed in stable conditions.
Officers arrested the suspect who they say dropped the gun.
Police were searching for the two other men who fled the scene.
“We don’t know if they are armed as well, so we have issued a shelter-in-place while we continue to search for those individuals,” Thomas said.
The Denver Police Homicide Unit, Colorado State Patrol and Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will investigate the officer’s actions.
“The results of that investigation will be monitored by the Office of the independent monitor, and the results will be presented to the Denver District Attorney for their review,” Thomas said.
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Mean Girls musical cast prepares for visit to Denver, demonstrates popular dance from show

For one week only, the cast of Mean Girls the musical will be playing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The musical will take the stage at the Buell Theatre starting Feb. 25.
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Katie Yoemans and Kabir Ghandi are two of the talented performers who are on tour with the production. Before they arrived in Denver for their stay they met up with CBS News Colorado’s Dillon Thomas at the Mathnasium in Fort Collins.
The show also plays into the idea of “mathletes,” much like the original film from 2004, setting up the Mathnasium as the perfect place to meet up with Thomas.
“We are so happy to be playing these really fun characters in a super high energy beloved show,” Yoemans said.
“The biggest addition from the original movie to our musical is the great dancing and singing. It does a good job at giving you what you love but giving it that big Broadway feel,” Ghandi said.
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Both Ghandi and Yoemans joined the musical tour in November of 2024 and have already toured to places like Mexico, and Alaska and from coast to coast of the lower 48 states.
However, they did not have much time to learn every step of the show before being put on stage.
“Learning on the road was definitely a new challenge,” Yoemans said.
“I think we learned the whole show within a week,” Ghandi said.
The duo gave Thomas a crash course lesson on how to do one of the popular dances from the production, which you can see by watching the video attached to this report.
Both Ghandi and Yoemans said the show is a great time for people of all generations.
“It is a good time for the family, it is a good laugh,” Ghandi said.
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ESPN Insider Reveals Broncos Plan to Create Even More Cap Space

In the wake of the NFL raising the salary-cap ceiling for 2025 to $279.5 million, based on Over The Cap‘s projections, the Denver Broncos now have $41.7 million in breathing room. The new NFL cap ceiling opened up roughly $7 million in cap space for the Broncos, which can go a long way on the free-agent market.
However, the Broncos could be planning to create even more salary-cap space between now and when the new league year opens on March 12. ESPN‘s Jeff Legwold reported this week that Broncos GM George Paton expects to have “about $52 million” by then.
“Denver should have at least $38 million to $40 million worth of cap space prior to any roster maneuvers or potential restructurings before the league year opens March 12,” Legwold wrote. “Paton said in January that he expected the Broncos to have ‘about $52 million’ in salary cap space by the time the new league year begins.”
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Where is that extra $10 million coming from? The Broncos clearly have some plans in place, and one way to create cap space is to restructure existing player contracts to free up room.
Teams can also release a player, convert salary to bonuses, or add additional void years on a contract, along with other forms of ‘salary-cap voodoo,’ to create cap space. However, the Broncos also have the option to move on from certain players to help get to that $52M number.
In terms of current Broncos contracts that could be restructured, candidates to consider include left guard Ben Powers and right tackle Mike McGlinchey, both of whom signed new deals in 2023 and have multiple years left on their contracts. The Broncos also have players they could approach about an extension, and none are more deserving than wide receiver Courtland Sutton, who enters a contract year set to make $13.5 million in salary.
Sutton will not only be hoping for an extension, but on the heels of a 1,000-yard receiving campaign, he’ll be looking for a raise. There are ways for the Broncos to extend him and even pay him more money, while reducing his 2025 cap hit, which currently sits at $20.2M.
When it comes to cutting players to free up cap space, the NFL rumor mill has floated multiple candidates this offseason, including Broncos safety P.J. Locke, linebacker Alex Singleton, and defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers. Such moves are always painful, and while there’s an argument for Locke and Singleton, it’s hard to see the Broncos moving on from Franklin-Myers after he over-delivered in Year 1 with seven sacks.
Suffice it to say, we’ll be keeping our ear to the floor on the subject of possible cap casualties between now and March 12. But when free agency rolls around, what really makes a difference is when teams have the available cash on hand to out-compete other suitors.
Sports Illustrated‘s Andrew Brandt, a former Green Bay Packers executive whose responsibility was to manage the salary cap and negotiate contracts, explained in a column from 2023 how cash is king in the NFL, not cap space, per se.
“In analyzing a player contract or a team payroll, many fans (and even media) focus on cap impacts. I am here to tell you to stop doing that,” Brandt wrote. “What matters is the cash, not the cap. Cash is real money in and real money out. Cap is simply bookkeeping. Even dead money—leftover nonroster charges for players no longer with the team—is merely unamortized proration clogging up the pipes of the overall cap. It is not cash.”
Denver has the wealthiest ownership in the NFL in the Walton/Penner group, which gives the Broncos a real advantage when negotiating with their own players and outside free agents. If a player is presented with a similar contract by two teams, but one offer includes a lot more cash upfront (signing bonus/early payout), that team will, more often than not, out-compete the other for said player’s services.
It will be interesting to see how Paton plans to get to $52 million in cap space and how much of that arithmetic from back in January included the projected NFL salary-cap increase. The NFL increases the cap ceiling every year, but it’s hard to predict accurately in January exactly how much it’ll climb by March.
Even at $41.7M in cap space, the Broncos are in a far better situation than they were last year. The specter of Russell Wilson’s punitive contract still haunts the Broncos, but it won’t be as restrictive on the team’s offseason maneuvers this year.
The Broncos had to get skinny last season and rely on the rookie class and the youth of the roster, which not only led to a great season and multiple players emerging as cornerstone pieces but also provided excellent fiscal experience for the front-office shot-callers. Credit to Sean Payton and his coaching staff for pulling off the feat.
“We had no choice,” Paton said back in January. “We could’ve taken a less of a hit last year, but we wanted to take the full hit because we were going to go young. Sean emphasized that to the coaches. We’re playing our young players.”
Armed with that much cap space and the wealthiest owners in football, fans can expect the Broncos to be bigger players on this year’s free-agent market. With needs at running back, tight end, wide receiver, defensive line, linebacker, and safety, the Broncos have the resources to fill most of them before the NFL draft rolls around in April.
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