Nuggets Hire Shaw as Coach The Indiana Pacers assistant Brian Shaw said he had been hired as the coach of the Denver Nuggets. "I'm so appreciative for the opportunity to be able to lead this team," Shaw told ESPN Los Angeles. Shaw, who will replace George Karl, is a former N.B.A. guard and longtime assistant who has interviewed about a dozen times for head coaching positions but kept coming up short. ■ Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder has become the first N.B.A. star to sign with the rap mogul Jay-Z's Roc Nation agency. Durant left the agent Rob Pelinka to sign with Roc Nation. ■ With an estimated 400,000 people lining the streets of downtown Miami, the Heat held their N.B.A. championship parade and an in-arena rally afterward. LeBron James stood atop a double-decker bus with a cigar in his mouth for the parade, Shane Battier blew kisses to the crowd, and Dwyane Wade raised three fingers aloft. Players, who were riding atop double-decker buses, had to duck to avoid overpasses several times along the parade route.