MPJ with a mic is OMG . Michael Malone remains an angry emoji.

And without these two, the Nuggets are no longer bitter and a whole lot better .

This is not a reset . It is a cleansing of negative vibes, paranoia and a bench that was thinner than Flat Stanley.

When last season ended, there was a feeling the Nuggets were going to run it back, throwing their arms in the air and asking coach David Adelman to sprinkle pixie dust on an aging roster increasingly defined by injuries and a lack of versatility.

Four months later, that’s all changed.

The Nuggets hired two general managers, Jon Wallace and Ben Tenzer, who made a trade that immediately restored title expectations. Those have only grown stronger with the unfortunate season-ending injury to Houston’s Fred VanVleet, the possibi

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