Adelman seemed to display a deft hand at navigating locker-room politics during his interim tenure. He attempted to pull off a pure meritocracy. There were nights when starting small forward Michael Porter Jr. was excluded from the closing lineup. Porter was still among the players to endorse Adelman for the full-time job.

Nuggets head coach David Adelman has some thoughts about what the team needs to tweak before next season begins.

T he Denver Nuggets are likely to go down as the toughest challenge the Oklahoma City Thunder will have faced on their path to the NBA Finals, with a matchup against the Indiana P