Michael Malone had a message for the scared and mourning in Highlands Ranch on Tuesday night: I’m with you.
“And it’s not just Highlands Ranch. It’s not just Colorado,” the Denver Nuggets coach said a few hours before his team was to take on the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 5 of the NBA’s Western Conference semifinals at the Pepsi Center. “And this is an epidemic and it continues to happen. That’s the frustrating thing: How do you stop it? Gun control, laws, whatever it might be.
“I don’t want to sit up here on a soapbox … I want everyone in Highlands Ranch to know, ‘I’m with you.