内容摘要：of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, heard the dreaded bell because he was unfamiliar with Terre Haute, the western Indiana city. He went with “terrahote.”

of Fergus Falls, Minnesota, heard the dreaded bell because he was unfamiliar with Terre Haute, the western Indiana city. He went with “terrahote.”

Now, the work begins to put his own stamp on directing the Nuggets. He’s gathered a wealth of knowledge through an array of NBA coaching mentors such as his father Rick Adelman, Sam Mitchell, Frank Vogel, the late Flip Saunders and, of course, Malone.“Very prepared,” Adelman said of his level of readiness. “When you’re around those people and you see how they run their business and their process, it’s kind of a cheat code.”

Fitness, Adelman maintained, will be a key to a fast start — and health come playoff time.“Teams that get off to great starts usually at the end of the year have the best chance of being healthy in these big games,” explained Adelman, who’s working on rounding out his coaching staff. “But, yeah, that will be the expectation to come back in much better shape.”One of the areas the Nuggets aim to address in the offseason is depth. The Nuggets ran out of steam in the Thunder series after

to advance out of the first round.“Can they achieve that (championship goal) as currently constructed? I think the answer, as (Jokic) said after the playoffs, and it was obviously no,” Kroenke Sports & Entertainment vice chairman Josh Kroenke said. “So we need to take a hard look at how we can raise our ceiling going forward, whether that’s internally or externally.

“If you look at the teams still playing ... with a little bit of help, maybe a little bit of luck, maybe it could be us. But it’s not. We’re very conscious of that and how we need to go about improving.”

last month when he fired Malone, the winningest coach in franchise history, and Booth after they helped bring home the franchise’s first NBA title in 2023. It was Kroenke’s way to rejuvenate the team’s energy heading into the postseason.The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades.

A Guna Indigenous woman covers her head due to light rain on Gardi Sugdub Island, part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A Guna Indigenous woman covers her head due to light rain on Gardi Sugdub Island, part of the San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, Saturday, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

On a recent day, the island’s Indigenous residents rowed or sputtered off with outboard motors to fish. Children, some in uniforms and others in the colorful local textiles called “molas,” chattered as they hustled through the warren of narrow dirt streets on their way to school.“We’re a little sad, because we’re going to leave behind the homes we’ve known all our lives, the relationship with the sea, where we fish, where we bathe and where the tourists come, but the sea is sinking the island little by little,” said Nadín Morales, 24, who prepared to move with her mother, uncle and boyfriend.