Michael Malone is still obsessed with Lakers, fires shot at LeBron James

The Los Angeles Lakers fell in four games to the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals before the Nuggets went on to make quick work of the Miami Heat in five games. Overall, the Nuggets went 16-4 en route to winning the organization’s first championship in what was truly a dominant postseason run.

While it was painful to see the Lakers lose, the Nuggets winning it all is a breath of fresh air. Parity in the NBA is great and it is always a good thing to see an elite player like Nikola Jokic get over the hump and prove all his naysayers (who are insane to begin with) wrong.

It should be a feel-good moment that everyone in Denver is celebrating. And while they are certainly celebrating hard, the Lakers are still being brought up in the topic of conversation. You would think that winning a title would make a team forget about the team they played in the Conference Finals.

But that is not the case. Nuggets head coach Mike Malone continues to be obsessed with the Lakers and LeBron James, taking the time to fire a not-so-subtle shot at LeBron during his appearance on The Pat McAfee Show.

Michael Malone continues to be obsessed with Lakers, fires a shot at LeBron James

To be fair to Malone, he is not the one that brought up the Lakers in the conversation. His now-viral post-game comments after Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals are what prompted the question that brought up the Lakers in the first place.

But that shot at LeBron was completely out of left field. Sure, we all know that LeBron’s retirement suggestion is just a leverage play to try and force the Lakers to do what he wants. He has already shown his hand too much in that he wants to play with Bronny. But what does that even have to do with Malone and the Nuggets?

Sending stray shots at a team that is not even your rival that you dispatched pretty easily is a weird thing to do after winning a championship. It is especially weird to do when LeBron alone has accomplished more than the entire Nuggets franchise in his 20-year NBA career.

But hey, Malone and the Nuggets got the last laugh and they definitely deserve their championship. Malone better be thanking Nikola Jokic for being superhuman, because he really made Malone’s 21-27 postseason record look better after this Finals run.