While new coach Michael Malone, the stay-or-go fate of point guard Ty Lawson and a lottery pick in the upcoming NBA draft will play a role in Denver's basketball fortunes, whether the Nuggets remain a league joke or a give us reason for hope all really comes down to one man.
The team's real MVP? For better or worse, it's Josh Kroenke.
He's in charge here.
And Kroenke wants everybody to know it.
Within the walls of the Nuggets franchise, where the power struggles have long been written in the same bloody tradition as "Game of Thrones" and you sometimes can't keep track of all the combatants without a scorecard, which leader stepped up and finally called off a Denver coaching search that was waged for more than 100 days to hire Malone?