Bennett Durando is the Colorado Avalanche beat writer for The Denver Post. Before taking on his first NHL beat, he covered SEC football and other sports for five years, first at his alma mater, Missouri, for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Columbia Missourian, then Auburn for the Montgomery Advertiser. Proud born-and-raised Midwesterner who admittedly prefers the mountain view.
LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 20: Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham and Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone go head to head during the first quarter of the Western Conference finals game 3 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 20, 2023. The ninth-year Nuggets coach claimed Wednesday he was unaware that the Lakers, practicing two hours north, have been identifying unspecified trash talk from Denver as bulletin board material for the coming season.
“Oh, they’re talking about us?” Malone said when asked about the comments in Los Angeles. “Yeah, that was, like, four months ago? Yeah. I can’t speak for anybody in L.A. I can speak for the 17 players on our team, 18 players now. If they’re still worried about us, that’s on them.” Nikola Jokic and Michael Porter Jr. of the Denver Nuggets defends Austin Reaves of the Los Angeles Lakers during the third quarter of the Western Conference Finals Game 3 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 20, 2023. “I think everybody knows it was pointed at us,” he told reporters Tuesday. “They can do it indirectly if they want, but I think it was very obvious to the public eye. That’s why everybody was talking about it.
“It’s not a rivalry,” he said. “You can’t play a team in the Western Conference Finals twice in the last couple years and think it’s a rivalry. When I think of rivalries, I think of Boston-L.A. I think of the Knicks and the Miami Heat back in the day. But no, I don’t welcome it or not welcome it. I’m on 2023-24. I’m not living four months ago.”Michael Porter Jr.
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