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There might not be a better single day for a specific sport than Christmas for basketball. The NBA gives us 12-plus hours of hoops from a carefully curated group of the league's most interesting teams.

It came as a shock to most when the Sacramento Kings fired head coach Mike Brown in the midst of a disappointing season after a few years of productive basketball. As Kings fans have been divided if the firing was a good decision or not, some are pondering why it was made in the first place.

Less than two seasons removed from his Coach of the Year-winning season, the Sacramento Kings fired Mike Brown. Brown, who snapped the longest playoff

Nuggets head coach Michael Malone had some things to say about the Kings after his former employer abruptly fired head coach Mike Brown.

The NBA’s top squad, the 26-4 Cleveland Cavaliers, faces off against the reigning Kia MVP Ladder leader, Nikola Jokić, and the Denver Nuggets tonight in the Mile High City (9 ET). With both teams in peak form, this is a showdown basketball fans won’t want to miss.

Donovan Mitchell scored 33 points, Evan Mobley had 26 points and the streaking Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Denver Nuggets 149-135 on Friday night for their sixth straight win. Cleveland set a season high in points and improved to 10-1 since dropping two in a row to Atlanta last month.

Cleveland's previous franchise high in a regulation game was 148 points against the Miami Heat on December 17, 1981. The most a Cavaliers team has ever scored in a game was 154 po