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Longtime NBA coach Brendan Malone died at the age of 81, the Denver Nuggets announced Tuesday.
"It is with tremendous sadness that we share the passing of longtime NBA coach Brendan Malone, who holds a special place amongst the organization and will be a Denver Nugget forever," the team said in a statement. "Coach Brendan Malone was a great man who left behind a great legacy in the world of basketball, but he will be remembered even more for the amazing husband, father, son and grandfather that he was and the profound impact he had on the friends, family, and colleagues who were lucky enough to know him. Our thoughts are with the entire Malone family and all of Brendan's loved ones who are feeling this loss today."
Malone was the father of current Nuggets head coach Michael Malone.
Before arriving in the NBA, Brendan Malone was an assistant at Fordham, Yale and Syracuse before taking the head-coaching role at Rhode Island in 1984. After two seasons with the Rams, Malone served as an assistant with the New York Knicks, working under Hubie Brown, Bob Hill and Rick Pitino.
Malone left New York after two seasons to join Chuck Daly's staff in Detroit where he helped the Pistons win back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990. It was during his time in Detroit that Malone helped develop the "Jordan Rules" as a way to stop Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan.
The Pistons and Bulls met in three consecutive postseasons, with Detroit advancing after the first two meetings en route to the NBA championship and Jordan and Chicago taking their 1991 series in a sweep on their way to the first of three titles in a row.
In 1995, Malone was named the first coach of the expansion Toronto Raptors. He spent one season there before serving as an assistant with the Knicks, Pistons, Indiana Pacers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Orlando Magic. His last time as a head coach was on an interim basis in 2005 with Cleveland for 18 games following the firing of Paul Silas.
Over Malone's 27 seasons coaching in the NBA, teams that he was a part of made the playoffs 20 times with a combined 1,165-1,001 record. Those teams reached seven conference finals, four NBA Finals and won two NBA championships.
Malone and his son, Michael, are the only father-son coaching duo to have won NBA titles. Michael led the Nuggets to the 2023 NBA title with a five-game series win over the Miami Heat in June.
This past July, the National Basketball Coaches Association named Malone the 2023 Tex Winter Assistant Coach Lifetime Impact Award.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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