Josh Kroenke asked himself 'am I crazy' and said Monday that neither Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone nor general manager Calvin Booth 'deserved' to be fired.
So why did he do it?
The Nuggets vice chairman spoke with reporters about the controversial decisions in a news conference on Monday, days ahead of Denver's playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers.
"It was an incredibly tough decision for us for a lot of levels," Kroenke said. "I think at the very end of the day it was a very tough decision because of the amount of respect that I personally have and that we as an organization have for what those gentlemen did for us while they were here.