Michael Malone will be staring up when the Denver Nuggets raise their championship banner Tuesday night before the season opener. Brendan Malone, the longtime coach and driving force behind the Detroit Pistons "Bad Boys" defenses in the late 1980s and early '90s, died nearly two weeks ago. "I'm always thinking about him," Michael Malone, the coach of the Nuggets, said after the team went through practice Monday on the eve of hosting LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers.