Marc J. Spears of the Denver Post reports: Denver Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe on Saturday postponed a scheduled interview in Los Angeles with Milwaukee assistant Terry Stotts for the Nuggets' job as head coach.
Asked about the reason for the postponement, Vandeweghe said, "It was only timing." He said he hopes to reschedule the interview soon.

Stotts, who has been an assistant for 12 seasons under coach George Karl in Seattle and Milwaukee, said he wasn't discouraged.

"I look forward to the interview," Stotts said. "It's just that the schedule didn't permit."

In other Nuggets coaching news: Kentucky coach Tubby Smith, a rumored Nuggets coaching candidate, said he has not been contacted by the Nuggets and wouldn't comment about the opening.

"I could do the job on the next level," Smith said. "But then again, every player on my team thinks (he) can be an NBA player, too. It is never as tough as it looks or easy as it looks."

Smith was asked what would it take for him to leave Kentucky. "I don't know. I don't look at things that way," he said. "Every job I've gotten is because somebody called me. . . . Or they called somebody else first who talked to me. That's how it always happens. I've never applied for a job. I just do the best with the job that I have."

Agent Warren Legarie said his client Del Harris, an assistant with the Dallas Mavericks, is expected to interview for the Nuggets' coaching opening after he returns from a scouting and coaching clinic in Europe. In 13 years as an NBA head coach with Houston, Milwaukee and the Los Angeles Lakers, Harris compiled a 556-457 record.

"Del would be somebody Kiki would want to interview," said Legarie, who also has Vandeweghe as a client.