National Basketball Association

Brian Shaw wonders if Denver Nuggets are losing on purpose

Published Feb. 4, 2015 11:15 a.m. ET

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The Denver Nuggets may sneakily be the worst team in the NBA. They're the only team in the league to have lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks, all of whom are among the NBA's cellar dwellers. In fact, the losses have been so bad that Nuggets head coach Brian Shaw is wondering if his team is losing on purpose.

"It just looks like you almost have to try to lose as bad, and in the way we've been losing," he said. "At that point, something gives. The decision-makers at some point are going to make a decision. And everybody is going to have to live with it. Then it's out of our control.

"The only thing I can control is doing my job to the best of my ability. And that's what I expect them to do. Do I feel like that's always been the case? No. Do I share responsibility in that? Yeah."

(Read more at the Denver Post)