I don't know the relationships between Malone and Booth, yeah they might not like each other just like Luka and Nico did, but they have one goal, that is to make another run in the championship for this year and it seems that they are on track as they are still in the playoffs.
But the owner doesn't want to wait and made this bold decision to fire Malone and Booth all together to removed the problems. The last thing I remembered though is that Malone has been calling on his players or criticizing them for not watching films and called them "full of s**t".
And he says that he is just brutally honest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN9dOzmFGukBut unfortunately you cannot run the organization smoothly if there are troubles happening to their officials. That's why the owner choose fire them even if they know that Malone is great coach and bring the very first championship in their team.
To bad for Nuggets since the timing is not good and hopefully we will not see them struggling on possible new system installed by their new coach.
Seems the owner just want to get rid of drama and they want their team to focus on winning their games. This also shows that they are not just playing around but try to win a championship. Curious to know if Nuggets will not struggle after this unfortunate situation happened to their team.