Given how well the Denver Nuggets played since David Adelman took over the head-coaching position on an interim basis, it would pretty surprising if he doesn't get the full-time gig. Denver fired coach Michael Malone with just three games left in the regular season,

The son of former Blazers and Kings coach Rick Adelman, the Nuggets' interim head coach has spent a lifetime preparing for this moment.

Employed by the Nuggets since 2017, Adelman took over as interim coach after the team fired Michael Malone in the last week of the regular season. Denver was in danger of falling to the Play-In Tournament when the dramatic change was made. Adelman shepherded the team back into fourth place then into the second round of the playoffs.