Former Nuggets coach Doug Moe dies at after cancer battle, son says

Former NBA coach Doug Moe died, his son David said on Tuesday. He was 87.

David informed multiple of the coach's friends that his father had passed away after a lengthy bout with cancer.

Longtime Denver TV personality Ron Zappolo also confirmed the passing to The Associated Press. Moe was an ABA original and gained fame over a rumpled, irreverent decade as coach of the Denver Nuggets in the 1980s.

In a tribute to Moe posted to social media, the Nuggets remembered Moe as a "a...