Brendan Malone, Former NBA Coach and Father of Nuggets Coach Michael Malone, Dies

By Pat Graham

Former NBA coach Brendan Malone, the father of Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone and orchestrator of the vaunted Detroit Pistons defenses in the late 1980s and early 1990s, died recently. He was 88.

Brendan and Michael Malone are the only father-son coaching duo to have won NBA titles.