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My Take
Mike Malone earns my admiration the way grinders always do. A New Yorker who came up through Loyola Maryland rather than any star-player pedigree, he coached the Kings and then the Nuggets, finally delivering Denver its first-ever NBA championship in 2023. I love stories where someone reaches the summit on intelligence and persistence instead of glamour. Coaching is thankless, demanding the nerve to bind a roster together and make it win, and he did exactly that. The look on his face when that title finally came felt like years of work paying off all at once, and I find that genuinely moving.
Overview
Michael Malone (born September 15, 1971) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team. He previously coached in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was the head coach of the Sacramento Kings from 2013 to 2014 and the Denver Nuggets from 2015 to 2025. With the Nuggets, Malone won the 2023 NBA Finals, the franchise's first championship.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Mike Malone
- Name (Japanese)
- マイケル・マローン
- Reading
- まいける・まろーん
- Born
- January 15, 1971 (age 55)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Boar
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 188 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball coach / basketball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Loyola University Maryland
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.