PHILADELPHIA — Nuggets coach Michael Malone knows that he’s going to be an innocent bystander for next Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game.
The game is about the players, not the coaches tasked with figuring out the substitution patterns.
It’s for that reason that he didn’t mind missing Thursday’s much-publicized All-Star draft, even as the coach of Team LeBron.
“It’s funny, I was walking to get something to eat, my wife called me up,” Malone recounted from shootaround Friday. “She was sitting down to watch it. I was like, ‘What are you watching that for?’”
Captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo took part in the first-ever televised All-Star draft, which proved to be a TNT ratings success.