The Nuggets are winning for all the obvious reasons and at least one not so obvious.
Team karma. Or should I say Team Karma? That’s what they’ve become.
And to think, six months ago we were calling them dysfunctional. And a few months earlier, a lot of people were predicting doom and gloom after the trade that sent Marcus Camby packing for a bag of chips.
So what happened? It hasn’t just been the addition of Chauncey Billups. Don’t discount George Karl’s ability to juggle personalities and massage egos.
Mark Warkentien, the Nuggets’ vice president of hoops operations, last week was named the NBA’s executive of the year. And to hear him tell it, he owes a big chunk of the award to Karl.
“We’ve got kind of an eclectic combination of personalities and players,” Warkentien said. “A lot of coaches would really struggle with it because we’ve had so much change. But George coached 9 million games in the CBA. This is his shtick.”
