Redfin would lovingly describe the Nuggets’ practice court, tucked into a second-floor wing of Ball Arena, as “cute.” “Cute,” of course, is realtor code for “tiny.”
As coach Michael Malone left his amiable media scrum early Tuesday evening, he pointed to a set of three orange traffic cones stationed near one of the cuter padded walls to the right of the main entrance. Malone noted that the cones were not, in fact, used for dribbling or ball-handling drills, or drills of any kind — but as a keep-out barrier because of multiple leaks on that area of the floor.