Source: Nuggets fire Brian Shaw

— -- The Denver Nuggets have fired coach Brian Shaw, a source confirmed to ESPN.com's Ramona Shelburne.

The Nuggets are in the midst of a six-game losing streak and have struggled in compiling a 20-39 record this season under Shaw.

Melvin Hunt, one of Shaw's assistants, will serve as interim coach, a source confirmed to ESPN.com's Brian Windhorst. Hunt is in his third season with Denver after five seasons as a Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach.

The Nuggets, mired in a 10-game home losing streak, broke a huddle coming out of a timeout in Friday's home loss to the Utah Jazz with a chant of "1-2-3 ... Six weeks!" Shaw denied that the team was referring to the end of the season, which is about six weeks away, and said it actually referred to the last time Denver won a home game.

"The comment that the players made when they got together and said '1, 2, 3, six weeks!' was the players saying 'This is the end of the six weeks, we're going to get a win tonight on our home court and break the six-week losing spell on our home court.' Not six weeks that it's the end of the season," Shaw said. "Now, coincidentally it does happen to be a little over six weeks from then, that it's the end of the season. But I think our players and the Denver Nuggets as a whole were misrepresented in how that was reported."

Shaw parts ways with the Nuggets after less than two seasons in Denver. He took over as coach before last season, when the Nuggets went 36-46 amid a rash of injuries to key players.