“We’re not good enough to come on the road and not play as hard as possible for 48 minutes,” Malone said. “I can only do so much. I can’t motivate 15 individual players and give them a ‘rah-rah’ speech." ~ QUOTED FROM THE ARTICLE
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These words coming from a head coach, one who has never had one winning season, never been to one playoff game as head coach, even though the bar in the NBA is set so low when it comes to low seeds making the playoffs. 
Go ahead Mr. Malone, throw the players under the bus, the last loser who was head coach just before you did that, it worked real well. 
Sadly, Denver fired a winning coach, one who the year he was fired, took a young inexperienced team to the playoffs, receiving "Coach of the Year". He took Denver to the playoffs consistently, year in, year out. He was replaced with two losers, ones who never achieved anything in the NBA as a head coach, ones who the owner said he wanted to take the team "deeper into the playoffs".