Rocky, the beloved mascot of the Denver Nuggets, is suing the team’s owner.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Denver District Court, the man inside the mountain lion suit, Drake Solomon, alleged that he was fired after he took time off to heal from a hip injury, in violation of disability protection laws.

Solomon, 31, is seeking unspecified damages from Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, which owns the Nuggets.

“It was not easy to go ahead with this because I love the Nuggets,” Solomon said Wednesday in an interview with The Sun. “They’ve been my whole life and my family. For things to end the way they did it was pretty heartbreaking.”

Solomon became Rocky in 2021, following in the footsteps of his father, who was the original Rocky more than 30 years ago. But in the 2022-23 NBA season, the y

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