LOS ANGELES -- All series, Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone has been telling his team it needed to get out to better starts. That just because they had been able to come back from double digit leads in each of the first three games of their first round playoff series against the Los Angeles Lakers, didn't mean they could always turn things around in the second half.
On Saturday, the Nuggets got off on the wrong foot once again. Or rather, a few players actually took the court before Denver's 119-108 loss to the Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference playoffs without any shoes at all because of a mix-up in getting in getting several players' insoles onto the early bus to the arena, according to a team spokesman.