According to multimedia outlet contributor Jared Zwerling, Melvin Hunt is the current frontrunner to land as new head coach of the Denver Nuggets. Via Zwerling’s Twitter account:
Also from a source: Melvin Hunt is currently the front-runner for the Nuggets’ coaching job. Mike D’Antoni has not interviewed with Denver.
— Jared Zwerling (@JaredZwerling) May 28, 2015
The Nuggets have been fairly laconic about their head coaching search since the regular season concluded over a month ago. With Scott Brooks denying the Nuggets an interview a little over a week ago and Mike D’Antoni having yet to meet with Nuggets’ brass in person, it appears the team’s ongoing quest to name a new head coach is moving at an even slower pace than originally suspected.
While patience is certainly one of the more desirable traits an organization can assume, there is also a fine line between calculated research and neglect. Taking time for time’s sake isn’t a strategy. Quite honestly, it’s a little bit confounding as to how the Nuggets are over a month into their head coaching search and still have yet to speak formally with one of their supposed favorite candidates in Mike D’Antoni.
The bright side of Zwerling’s tweet is of course the news regarding Melvin Hunt. As has been argued here at BSNDenver.com, Hunt is an ideal candidate for the current version of the Denver Nuggets, a team ostensibly at the crossroads of rebuilding, “retooling” and attempting to remain competitive in perhaps the toughest Western Conference in NBA history.
Stay tuned to BSN for more information on the Nuggets’ head coaching front until this process inevitably concludes by which time the continents will no longer be recognizable, Andromeda will have collided with the Milky Way and life as we know it will cease to exist.
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Guess the fans are MEH with the playoff finals in order. But, good for Josh if Hunt is the front-runner. Who said what to make Hunt the front-runner? The deal is, they made a mistake with Shaw; don’t repeat it with speculation. With Hunt it won’t be a mistake from any perspective. He will deliver for Denver’s needs, because he has proven it. but if he doesn’t after a couple of years, see who is there. He can keep peace is this somewhat dysfunctional environment. We need to regain respectability which was singlehandedly dismantlement. Actually, getting good players is Tim’s job; people have to trust and like Tim. He might be able to assess talent, but I don’t see him as having a passion about people, so these and other players won’t have passion about him. Human nature. Maybe Chauncy can help him, and grow into the position as he desires.