David Adelman interrupts DNVR reporter Brendan Vogt with a snarky comment despite him never even saying that
Why does it feel like adelman cosplays as an adult baby in his free time
His face. He looks like an adult baby
Like the cover of a mad magazine
I call him Alfred E Nepobaby because I’m old.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nbamemes/s/a5JrzSCu9v
Yes, he looks exactly like the kid in the “No, David!” books
I’ve always felt like he looks like a character in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books lol
The MAD Magazine mascot
That’s what I always say, lol. Glad Im not the only one who thinks it
Like a garbage pail kid
He looks like Tommy from Rugrats
Head like a fuckin orange
He looks like John Finlay the ex-husband of the Tiger King
Seriously, this guy needs to do something. Different hairstyle. Maybe grow out his facial hair more instead of the 5 o’clock shadow he got going on. Anything to not make him look like an adult sized child. Lol
The man is 44 and has a wife with 2 kids. I don’t think he cares about this stuff lol
He could be 65 with grandkids and still potentially care about this stuff lol having a spouse and kids doesn’t mean vast majority of people just immediately stop caring about public perception…especially celebrities.
Adult Caillou
Someone said he looks like an Oblivion NPC and I can’t get that out of my head.
Heavy medieval bard energy
That’s Alex Caruso
Who let Karl Pilkington coach an American basketball team?
That would be a fun show.
He looks like he’s always contemplating how to steal some poor kids inheritance
He looks like he would do that cartoonish old-timey mobster voice, but like super high pitched.
His face looks like the MAD TV character
he looks like an old timey puppet, like Howdy Doody.
He looks like Little Debbie
What beating the injured timberwolves does to a man’s ego
He might be the most assistant-coach coded head-coach I’ve ever seen, he’s never stopped feeling like it since he got upgraded to the position
David middleman
this is the one
Chef’s kiss
I’d also like to say Ryan Saunders, an assistant on the Nuggets and Ant’s first head coach in the NBA
I like the man and wish him well and it’s totally out of his control, but his face just LOOKS nervous
Two of them have something important in common
Yeah, I’d probably look nervous too if everyone knew I was only there because of my dad and there’s nothing but a fading professional courtesy keeping me in that job.
There’s 30 of these jobs why are they doing a professional courtesy. Owners/gms are just dumb and don’t take risks and are easily bamboozled by a guy who can talk the game cause he spent years around someone actually smart. And in turn the owners hiring a gm job his probably also got some nepo/lifer connection and isn’t actually that good either but can for sure dupe the owner who is probably also a dumb nepo baby and inherited their own wealth.
Oh yeah. I’m just saying that his days as a head coach are probably winding down. His dad helped get him this far, but he’s pretty clearly getting exposed and there’s nowhere to hide, and Dad’s recommendation and network won’t keep him in that job much longer.
bro looks like he’s begging to be stuffed in a locker
God i just dont like this guy
I’m glad nuggets fans and wolves fans agree on one thing: this guy sucks
We also agree on hating OKC, but in a much less fun way than we hate each other.
If the Nugs lose this series at least we can look forward to Adelman being fired (hopefully).
he looks like that bald guy from that prank show
he looks like the kid on the cover of mad magazine to me
He’s that annoying kid from school who has a very punchable face.
lol Murray from impractical jokers, put some respekk on that man’s name
Not the guy I’d be shilling for…
Wait, Murr got allegations?
Yup…
Pretty sure he has allegations that he was grooming and sexting a minor
More like that mad logo or a kid that says “ my mama said i can eat those”
Yep, he’s grown-up Alfred E. Neuman
I’ve always thought he looked like Paul Scheer
I think Paul Scheer deserves better than comments like this
I thought Alfred E Neuman.
Someone said he’s one of Santa’s elves that grew up
YES JAMES MURRAY
how have I not seen that before???
He looks like Murr from Impractical Jokers (derogatory)
Instead of insulting his appearance, which is unoriginal and way past being funny let’s insult the fact he’s a Whiney cunt who’s biggest qualifier for being head coach is being Rick Adelmans son
I didnt say anything about how he looks
HE NEVER EVEN SAID THAT
This is why TWolves fans crying for Finches firing need to stfu. Realistically the alternative is this dude or someone real similar. No thanks
Yeah, I’ll trade coaches with y’all in a heartbeat.
Wouldnt nori be next in line?
Potentially, but I’m not convinced that the Wolves wouldn’t want to try and get fresh perspective if the fireable offense is coaching philosophy
Yeah we’ve had two WCF trips and games 2, 3, 4 showed us he’s improved on adjusting schemes. I can’t really blame game 5 on him when we can’t hang onto the ball at all.
I’d much rather have Finch than our last like 8 coaches.
It’s odd cause his dad was regarded as such a good guy
I think he’s really grown from his role on tiger king tbh
What a strange interaction
I’m sure it went better in his head when he rehearsed it the night before
The Jerk Store called and they’re all out of you!
What’s the difference? You’re their all-time bestseller!
Well I just had sex with your wife!
….his wife is in a coma
His wife probably heard him practicing in the mirror all night. You know he tried all different types of voices too like De Niro in Taxi Driver
These pretzels are making me THIRSTY, these PRETZELS are making me thirsty, THESE pretzels are making me thirsty, …
LOL he says it with such indignation, and instantly too, how many times did he ruminate over that
I know no one on reddit is going to watch an 8 minute podcast session but Brendan Vogt is the guy who asked about the Nuggets “competitive spirit” after that game 4 collapse and Adelman gives that universally panned response “Yeah, I thought we were very competitive tonight. And again, I think it’s hilarious that the narrative is offense doesn’t matter.” Vogt literally never mentions offense, he’s visibly holding back his emotions in the video, the other 4 DNVR podcast guys are cringing at the coach’s answers and but all of them are just being fans and wanting the team to do better.
Game 5 presser, Adelman immediately mocks him with a made up quote. For what? What a fucking BITCH.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHwiMgMGexc
Another small nugget from that presser “I don’t care what you write. I really don’t,” said Adelman. “I know what the team feels. I know what they felt before the game. The narrative doesn’t matter to me. I know the feeling of the group. And I know there’s something in us.”
Seems like Adelman does care and might be up in his feelings if he’s taking pot shots at reporters.
I watched it. Great context.
And now I just feel bad for Ryan Brendan. Just disrespectful as hell on Adelman’s part.
I think he took it pretty well in stride and low key would be happy if his question was the one that fired up his team/coach if Denver completes the comeback.
I’m just in disbelief that Adelman is a head coach with this immaturity. Add the DUI thing, think this guy goes right behind Udoka as least respectable dude who’s a head coach.
Plus I guarantee Ryan will have a Nuggets-adjacent job for longer than Adelman will lol
I just read about the DUI today, and the lame excuse his lawyer gave.
The man just hates podcasters, why doesnt everyone just have their dad get them into an extremely exclusive job environment?
Adelman sucks so much ass, and I’m a nuggets fan
Who’s Ryan? This Brendan Vogt guy or another guy Adelman was a dick to?
Wow, thanks for sharing that clip. It’s actually insane. Vogt got so emotional that you could hear it in his voice accompanied by the occasional sniffle. Adelman gaslight him so hard at the presser that he left questioning if he was in some sort of alternate reality or something. The dude thought he said/did something wrong, and to everyone on the podcast credit they back him up and confirmed that his questions were legitimate. Probably the craziest part of it was that Vogt actually apologized to the Denver fans because he backed the team so hard this season and finished off by saying that “I’m almost glad that we lost.”
It seems inevitable to me that Adelman is gone after this season, baring some kind of miraculous comeback and historic title run. Even then I’d probably say it’s still best to find another head coach in the offseason.
It seems inevitable to me that Adelman is gone after this season
🙏
I think the thing that stands out is the difference in accountability between the team and Adelman.
I get that he doesn’t want to feel like he’s throwing his guys under the bus, but if you want to be diplomatic say “I don’t think we lacked effort, but the other team showed more and really upped their intensity after Donte and Ant went down”. Then take some responsibility and say like “it’s my job to make sure we match the other team’s intensity”.
And instead of getting pissy in this presser, say like “yeah, there were questions about the teams fight last game. I think we showed that on both ends tonight.”
I feel like Adelman has been skating by because several players hold themselves accountable. Like what Braun said and even Jokic saying he was “average”, he knows that’s not good enough. I’m sure guys like AG are like that too. I feel like if this was a young team without vets, Adelman would be a complete disaster. He seems like more of a peer than an authority figure.
Adelman may have already received his walking papers, and he’s taking it out on Vogt.
Nepo baby.
Human baby
I’ll never not hear “ okay murr, your punishment is to coach an NBA team” when I see adelman.
Now I’ll never not hear that when I see him. Thanks.
bro it’s been years lol
Me either lmao
Frank Vogel is Joe
To give some back story, last game Vogt questioned Adelman about effort and Adelman claimed it was just shots didn’t go in and not effort. Vogt questioned that line of thinking. So this is Adelman’s passive aggressive jab back bc he still think it wasn’t an effort issue
The fact that Adelman has been stewing over this for the past 2 days is crazy.
He’s an absolute fucking clown and it actually doesn’t surprise me at all.
I can’t wait to hear him air it out on his podcast
Maybe Jaden can have him on as a guest and they can stare at each other.
I’m not commenting on how their exchange went, but I think if Denver was more efficient in all these games, they probably win despite their defense. Because they had been shooting way below their typical efficiency obviously.
So I understand his point.
Yea it’s not just them being unlucky though. In the games I’ve watched the Wolves defense has been outstanding. Like the Nuggets are getting very few easy shots/baskets. Kinda weird because Jokic has schooled Rudy in the past, but last year and this year he has done a pretty good job one on one.
Wolves defense hasn’t been good enough to make the nuggets offense look as bad as it has, it’s definitely made an impact but the nuggets are missing even the open ones rn
I don’t know how that’s not obvious to people. Their defensive numbers are not that bad, its their offense holding them back so far. On paper they are supposed to be a “not so great defense but amazing offense”, in their losses, they were simply not good offensively
you watch teams like the raptors and magic win with 33% shooting and you realize how far effort goes. Nuggets couldn’t give a shit for the first 4 games of this series and it was so obvious. Shooting is always going to swing, but you can always put in effort
Right, but if they had given a tiny bit more effort on Defense and holding onto the ball, they probably win despite the lack of efficiency.
And one of those is a lot more controllable than the other.
I get that he’s mad at the reporter, but does the phrase ‘offense doesn’t matter’ make any sense even in that context?
I think it’s a really interesting look into his argument. If you rewind the tape on his pressers after losses his position has been consistently “our shots aren’t falling.” So people are going at him about their toughness and their competitiveness and now I’m realizing he’s hearing “why don’t you play better defense” from the criticism, not the innate quality of “fighting spirit.” So here he is, again all speculation from a quote, back to his point of “if shots fall we win bozo!”
TBF to Adelman, they were 32 and 34% FG% on two of their losses. That’s not going to win games.
It does for the magic
the magic play defense
Well…..defense requires effort!
But then that goes against Adelman’s theory.
This guy is such a loser lmao
Truly one of the most punchable faces in sports
He definitely reminded the teacher when they forgot to hand out homework for the weekend. Randall from Recess-ass vibes
Not trying to be rude but this guy looks like a TES Oblivion NPC.
Yeah and not the remaster.
Do you come to the River North Art District often? Oh, what am I saying — of course you don’t.
“I was a baller like you once, until they took the ACL from my knee.”
“It has been well established that the Adelman kids do two things well-coach basketball and drive drunk. (And they don’t really coach basketball that well.) David was the head coach at Lincoln High in Portland, Oregon, back in February when he was nailed for his second career DUl charge. But on the first day of his trial this week, his lawyer claimed that the only reason police pulled him over that night is because the wealthy father of one of Adelman’s players had hired a private investigator to tail Adelman to a bar, wait until he got drunk, then call 911 when he left in his car.”
https://deadspin.com/how-a-parent-coach-dispute-turned-into-dui-charge-for-r-5412841/
Wait wait wait…That was his defense!?
They only caught me because they saw me do it!
That’s some Canadian Curling team defense right there.
They only caught me because it was predictable that I’d do this again!
Yeah idk what kind of lawyer offers up both an admission of doing the crime, as well as an admission that you’re well known enough to do said crime that high school basketball parents can try and use it against you, and succeed
Well if it’s a dui what do you want the lawyer to do? He’s likely on body cam operating the vehicle and submitting to a breathalyzer. Maybe you aren’t from the US but going after the probable cause of the rest is generally the best tactic for defensive lawyers in these cases.
How does that affect Probable Cause? Cops can stop someone on suspected drunk driving if someone calls 911 to report the driver.
He already said that offense doesn’t matter
Hot damn that’s a fucking wild claim and even more wild if true.
oh its true. he comes from a family of heavy drinkers and drivers. i think his sister has gotten a couple duis, but schools still give them jobs since they’re papa ricks kids.
That first sentence made me laugh out loud. That is a “we are beefing for life” kind of statement lol
Piece of shit anybody willing to step behind a vehicle after drinking above the legal limit.
he heard that on McDaniels podcast
This meme will get me to laugh for a few years.
This is the hardest ive laughed all year
What a bitch lol
Some of these coaches are so immature considering what they should be. This is an embarrassing ass comment for this dude to make. I love the response from the reporter.
Mark Diagonal is a blessing
Nobody can really jab at mark d because his teams win 65 fucking games per year lmao
Eh even during the tanking days. Mark D is just steady all the time. Dude could do open heart surgery in the middle of a game (he’d be squinting tho).
Also it’s your fucking job. That’s what the money is for. Take it like a champ and then go on with your day.
Two DUIs for this loser. That’s who he is
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lincoln-high-coach-sentenced-for-drunk-driving/283-89935841#:~:text=%2D%2D%20A%20Lincoln%20High%20School%20coach%20was,and%20three%20years%20probation%20for%20drunk%20driving.
This is so hilarious. Nepotism in the NBA is so ridiculously rampant. Dude just failed upwards.
You can say he got his spot with nepotism but by all accounts he’s been the brains behind Denver’s elite offence during most of Jokic’s prime.
You give Malone this roster when Jokic was out and they legitimately walk out with 2 wins in that stretch.
He’s clearly rattled though and probably isn’t head coach material.
How have i never heard of this
Good lord, I didn’t even know this. From a drunk high school baseball coach to this? Yikes. This dude is such a loser.
Wtf fuck this clown
Adelman has to go regardless if they come back. He does not have it.
Agreed Malone at least brought some fire to the team.
I still am not fully sure why Malone got fired, especially if Adelman was the back up plan. Did the locker room really get that bad?
the drama between him and the GM were infesting the whole org apparantely
Yeah apparently he lost the locker room and there’s no coming back from that. But hey he got a 100mil contract to keep coaching and he’s dating a weirdly hot lady. He’s chillin
Dating weirdly hot lady is a hilarious way to describe “age appropriate long term marriage” - but props to him nonetheless.
Yes. Both him and Booth had to go by nature of how bad it had gotten.
If just Booth went, it would have been tacitly endorsing Malone’s behaviour, which was not acceptable.
Malone wanted a veteran team and Calvin Booth wanted a young team. Led to a lot of stress behind the scenes and the Kroenkes decided not to pick a side and fired both of them.
I think it proves who was right, though, when the new front office immediately went all in on the veteran roster plan.
The Kroenkes fired Malone because they didn’t want to admit they made a mistake promoting Calvin Booth when Tim Connelly left. Firing Malone let them spread the blame around.
Calvin Booth
Beefed with the previous GM of the nuggets and it lead to both malone and GM being fired over the beef since it was negatively impacted the team
I agree dude is speed running getting fired. I don’t think he ever had the acumen for the job. My impression has always been is that he was a vibes merchant. Now that’s gone too.
If we win the series it will be in spite of Adelman. It worked out last night because Jones went off, but I still don’t understand keeping Zeke completely on the bench when he’s by far our best healthy interior defender.
Last night we won on sheer talent advantage alone
Tbf that may just be enough,
Yeah not playing Zeke was stupid. Absolutely should’ve played him at the start of the 4th. Spencer was getting a bit tired and can’t find open looks as much without Jokic, Zeke could’ve stopped Randle better.
It’s got to be so frustrating having a coach that is so inept AND a big ass baby
This guy is/looks like a fucking dweeb.
Adult version of Alfred E. Neuman
“Yeah I’ve never said that”… so tuff man.
Adelman so weird (and so weird for this)
Brendan Vogt is such a pro
This series is the villain arc of the Nuggets
He’s not even a good villain. He just comes off as insecure
Seriously. I think I know how Lakers fans feel now
Something about being Nuggets coach just turns someone into the biggest little bitch
He learned from the best
What a fucking dork
The two most annoying coaches in the league in one series. And I love the Timberwolves lol but damn Adelman and Finch just bitch and moan.
Finch saved the league from OKC’s whistle, put some respect on him
Dude reminds me of a muppet
Murray from impractical jokers
They should cast bro as gargamel in the next smurfs movie
Bitchass nepo baby
David Adelman looks like Roger Ebert after the surgeries.
He’s the Mad Magazine mascot.
Holy shit
He looks like a background character from Simpsons season 1
Adelman SUCKS! The guy is a privileged NEPO baby. Not a good coach, not a good person.
Rome is known for having 5 great emperors, and they all happened in succession. Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius. They marked a golden age of stability, prosperity, and merit-based succession.
The reason they all came in a row? None of them had male heirs. Except Marcus at the end, and his kid was a fucking psychopath who ruined everything built before him.
My point is, nepo babies largely suck.
Adelman is such a weak thin skinned little man. Vogt is doing his job as a reporter. How about you consistently do your job as a NBA HC, Adelman?
Nuggets bros, have the vibes around the team been this weird all season? Both the coach and Jokic seem extremely pissed off in a very whiney way for reasons I feel like I don’t understand
Its been weird at times yeah
Alfred E. Neuman with the tough guy act, lol
LMAO the “yeah I’ve never said that” was fantastic, great cadence and composure
He wants to be Mazzulla so bad. Difference is Mazzulla actually knows what he’s doing
He is so defensive bc he knows…his job is on the line.
But I love the reporters comeback 😂
He really thought he did something here lol
Reminds me of a former coach who regularly abused reporters and hated being called Mike.
Offense does matter when you didn’t score 100 points the last two games you arrogant clown.
He looks and sounds like Randall the Snitch from Recess.
Vogt caught a stray
This guy is such a bitch 😂
Adelman and Jokic are acting like middle schoolers. This is all it took to send them off the rails?
He’s such a bitch. They need to fire him and find a real coach.