As a junior, he was able to cut weight from football season and get below the 220-pound mark for wrestling. By his senior year, he’d grown closer to the 260 pounds he weighs today and wrestled in the 285-pound class.”

Michael Malone, who was fired by the Denver Nuggets with three games remaining in the regular season, will join ESPN for its coverage of the Western Conference finals.

The NBA announced on Monday that Jalen Williams was fined $25,000 for wearing a shirt with profanity language on it after the Oklahoma City Thunder 's 125-93 Game 7 win over the Denver Nuggets. He wore it in his postgame press conference.

For all the misconstruing that happens in these NBA Playoffs, Game 7 against the Denver Nuggets brought out the OKC Thunder team Mark Daigneault recognized.

David Adelman took over the Denver Nuggets with just a few regular season games remaining, as long-time head coach Michael Malone was sacked, alongside general manager Calvin Boothe. Despite heading into the playoffs as the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference with an interim head coach, the Nuggets made some noise.

Thunder head coach Mark Daigneault knows little about Adelman, but both have had similar upbringings. Adelman has been a Denver assistant since 2017, before he was promoted. Daigneault spent similar time in OKC as the G League's OKC Blue coach and Thunder assistant before he was given the job in 2020.

The Denver Nuggets once again came up short in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals and once more the biggest reason was their short rotation and lack of reinforcements off the bench.

This was a categorical Oklahoma City demolition. The Thunder blitzed the Denver Nuggets in a 125-93 victory Sunday evening to take Game 7 of their Western Conference semifinal, setting up a showdown against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the conference finals.