{"id":20428,"date":"2013-06-06T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20428"},"modified":"2013-06-06T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:42:19","slug":"2013-nba-coach-of-year-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20428","title":{"rendered":"2013 NBA Coach Of Year, Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0DENVER (AP Jun 6, 2013) &#8211; George Karl is out as coach of the Denver Nuggets.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Team President Josh Kroenke confirmed in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday that Karl&#8217;s tenure was over just weeks after he was named the NBA&#8217;s coach of the year. Karl&#8217;s departure comes shortly after Masai Ujiri, the league&#8217;s executive of the year, left to become general manager of the Toronto Raptors.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karl guided the third-youngest team in the NBA to the third-best record in the Western Conference with a franchise-record 57 wins, but the Nuggets were bounced from the first round of the playoffs for the fourth straight season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He had one more year on his contract. The news was first reported by Yahoo! Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0DENVER (AP Jun 6, 2013) &#8211; George Karl is out as coach of the Denver Nuggets. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Team President Josh Kroenke confirmed in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday that Karl&#8217;s tenure was over just weeks after he was named the NBA&#8217;s coach of the year. Karl&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20430,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions\/20430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}