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Grading the Week: Nuggets coach Michael Malone’s seat is so frigid it might trigger another Bomb Cyclone

Someone check the atmospheric pressure over Elitch Gardens.

After what Michael Malone and the Nuggets pulled off in the two months since Jamal Murray’s season-ending injury — among many other maladies that affected the team — the status of his head coaching seat just might trigger another Bomb Cyclone.

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Is it too early to suggest that Nuggets executive Tim Connelly offer Malone a lifetime contract?

After watching him guide Denver to the second round of the NBA Playoffs for the third consecutive season — something even the great Doug Moe couldn’t pull off in the 1980s — the folks inside the Grading the Week offices are ready to draw up the paperwork.