From the practice facility (if such a thing were to exist) to the staffing and infrastructure, the Nuggets invest as little in their basketball operations as any team in the league, a complaint that goes back at least a decade. It’s more accurate to say there is an organizational philosophy of not paying, period. That line of chatter would be more believable if it was the exception to the rule of how the Nuggets operate, but that’s not the case. Denver gave them both their first chance.) (Booth, incidentally, also would add to the league’s still-too-puny list of minority top executives, one that also includes Ujiri. The Nuggets, after all, survived the departure of Ujiri by tapping Connelly from New Orleans it’s quite possible they can do the same with Calvin Booth, a well-liked and respected Connelly lieutenant who is expected to assume the helm in Denver. As a former executive, I might be slightly biased toward overstating the value of these positions, but I can’t help but notice that none of us played in the games. ![]() I suppose one can spin this positively by saying the Nuggets under the ownership of Stan Kroenke have an organizational philosophy of not paying executives, and one can argue that individual point. Still, the Raptors offered Ujiri roughly triple what he was making at the time, and Denver barely flinched in response. Ujiri was at least a true “free agent” so to speak his contract was expiring at the time. Nine years ago, they let Masai Ujiri walk and take over the Toronto Raptors, another uncompensated loss. Of course, Nuggets fans have seen this movie before. (I’ve also been told the Wizards might have succeeded had they pursued this a bit more earnestly.) Kudos to him for writing his contract this favorably, but this was also a giant own goal for the Nuggets, especially since the Washington Wizards nearly poached Connelly three years ago. In this case, alas, Connelly had a contract with the Nuggets that basically allowed him to be a free agent even when he wasn’t, permitting him to entertain offers from other teams without the Nuggets getting in the way.
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